Just over the horizon, MTV fans on both sides of the Atlantic will be greeted by a sight they haven't had the chance to experience since things spiraled out of control in our world: the sight of beaches, bikinis and the scary moment when people from the romantic pasts of those unsuspecting singles reemerge. Like many other franchises in this genre, Ex On The Beach was affected by the pandemic and had no season of the American or British versions being filmed in 2020. But thanks to careful planning, it and any other productions have been taking place during this year of 2021, and both the original and U.S. adaptations will be on our screens in the months to come.
When Ex On The Beach first premiered on MTV UK across the pond back in 2014, it brought to the British tellys a totally different and uniquely twisted take on the classic romantic reality dating genre. Four years later, it became the first MTV franchise to originate overseas and then be translated into an American version of it, one of the many nations to do so from Europe, to the Americas and beyond. And when we got to witness how twisted this show would be in the spring of 2018, an all-star lineup of reality TV's finest were summoned to the same mega-mansion on the Big Island of Hawaii where Justin Bieber spent a summer vacation to a love reality show that is truly unlike any other.
And plenty of familiar faces from Taylor's Are You The One? show -- both from her infamous season 5 cast and others from MTV's other reality dating entry -- comprised some of the season's exes. But the rest of those who invaded Hawaii were relative unknowns, as were the three other original singles who didn't hold a membership card to a prior reality show appearance. But last weekend, one of them who came to the house as its resident musician and who was on his way to a promising future at a DJ and a music producer met his unexpected end in a shocking and truly senseless manner.
