MTV launched the reality TV craze two decades ago with its long-running Real World. Since the first two seasons, the show has strayed from social experiment to girls/guys gone wild, spawning guilty pleasures like The Challenge and The Gauntlet, but not serious television. This changed with Real World: Brooklyn. Iraq War vet Ryan is to Real World: Brooklyn what Pedro Zamora was to Real World: San Francisco. Both put human faces on issues of the day. Not since the start of the war has the American media been able to perfectly articulate what a soldier experiences when he must weigh his personal convictions, service to country and down-right fear of having to return.
Check out the episode below.
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