DC ExtraTime: Sexy and These "Beasts" Know It... (Including That "One")

*** CAUTION: This Post Contains Spoilers for Those Who Haven't Caught Up with Watching This Series So Far, Please Read with Caution Below. ***

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Along with offering weekly episode coverage of the shows you love as we've gone Inside MTV Reality on here for eight years, DCBLOG has also been able to bring you the other side of television's most-talked about reality programming. Whenever something that pops up on the social feeds that opens our eyes a bit, or when this ecosystem crosses at the intersection of pop culture, then we get to tell these stories through the unique vantage point of ExtraTime... including this first one of the fall 2021 cycle.

All Sexy Beasts Screencaps Courtesy Netflix

The world of reality television has offered us plenty of memorable moments, personalities, shows and formats that have become staples everywhere you go. In watching The Challenge the past three years an aspect that didn't exist years ago, and one that no one could have envisioned, is now par for the course: those from other reality franchises (most of which air on an MTV or ViacomCBS-affiliated outlet in any territory around the world) now compete on the show along with your longtime and new favorites.

Of course, you got MTV to thank -- or to blame, depending on whom you ask -- for making it possible for networks to devote a decent amount of their primetime evening entertainment programming to non-scripted content part of our 21st century television landscape. Same goes for the many over-the-top streaming outlets that have become a hot commodity in our year-plus at home in pandemic life, where they have also invested in reality programming around their elaborate budgets on scripted content.

And as we have been seeing three reality alumni from shows that actually air on internet platforms that compete with Paramount+ for our eyeballs in this new age, over the summer that new world and that of the MTV Reality ecosystem collided, at least for one episode. It all came in perhaps the most bizarre of all dating and reality shows that's come along during the past two decades... and for the root of all this, you have to go back to the last summer of the old normal.