Yin & Young EP 51 - Terrace House Boys & Girls in the City w/ Nicole McLendon

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Happy Holidays Everyone! In this episode, our guest is screenwriter and Terrace House fan, Nicole McLendon. Nicole was a fellow intern with James at a development house. The topic of this episode revolves around Terrace House, an unscripted Japanese reality TV show on Netflix and Yin & Young’s go-to program during the pandemic.

We will be covering Boys & Girls in the City which was the first season available on Netflix and is the second season of the Terrace House franchise. If you have not seen the Boys & Girls in the City, we recommend you check it out first, because this episode has spoilers!

Highlights:

• Nicole recently graduated and now works at an entertainment law firm. She hopes to get paid for screenwriting in the near future.

• James, Nicole, and Dan explain what brought them to Terrace House.

• The show is not a true reality show even though it declares itself an unscripted show. We go through the premise, cover the panelists, and the members of the show.

• We go in-depth into major events and relationships in the season such as Dream Police, the Meat Incident, Arman’s bromances, and more.

• We question how real the show is and how the "unscripted" disclaimer allows them to make the show appear like a reality show rather than something that has an outline or directed scenes.

• Favorite cast members and couples.

• Disclaimer: as an audience, we only see a short, edited glimpse of who the people on the show are. It’s important to not be too judgmental of the cast.

Terrace House Japanese (テラスハウスの日本語) -

• 告白 - こくはく - kokuhaku - confession of love, to ask someone to be your boyfriend/girlfriend.

• 仕様がない - しょうがない - shouganai - it can’t be helped, there’s no other way

• 意気地なし - いくじなし - ikujinashi - coward, loser

• 目茶 - めちゃ - mecha - excessive, extreme

• 超 - ちょう - chou - super, totally

• やばい - yabai - 1. awful, 2. slang: terrific, amazing

• 翼 - つばさ - tsubasa - wings (name of a cast member on Opening New Doors)

Links:

• Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80067942

• James’s article about Terrace House: https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2133941527449/terrace-house-an-introduction-and-a-constructed-reality?s

• Terrace House cast member Hana Kimura passes away: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/world/asia/hana-kimura-aew-dead.html

• Terrace House Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/terracehouse/

NOTE: This episode features videos clips from the show that belong to Fuji TV & Netflix as well as the images you see now if you’re watching on Youtube. The intro and outro song is “Slow Down” by the band Lights Follow.

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