But even her storylines feel half-baked, with a conversation about her ‘blackfishing’ feeling especially rushed and shallow. Whether she’s playing pot stirrer at a dinner party, or walking around in the most Instagrammable outfits imaginable, she brings fun that the show otherwise misses. Dragun in particular, despite coming across just as inauthentic as everyone else, has an energy to her that makes her effortlessly interesting. The two characters who are actually watchable, interestingly, are not Hype House members, Nikita Dragun and Larray. With the oldest housemate still in his very early twenties, as a viewer you just want them to get out in time to figure out their identity. Finding stardom during their formative years appears to have robbed most of them of a chance to authentically explore who they are. Drama feels both inauthentic and boring, and moments of vulnerability feel sanitized. Clearly hyper-aware of the need to protect their reputation, members fail to express a personality outside of their guarded online personas. This sense of gloom is heightened by the fact that no one in the house is particularly interesting to watch. That by leaving, they’d be relinquishing their fifteen minutes of fame, and in turn, their lives would be over. But there’s a sense that, for them, there is nothing else. No one in the Hype House seems to really want to be there, and very few of them even seem to want to be on TikTok. I spent the whole show wanting to hit them on the head and demand they take some time off, or try and get different jobs. With Warren stressed about earning enough to financially support his family, and Kouvr just wanting normalcy, the pair seem miserable. But Annon expresses frustrations with the blurring of their business and romantic relationship. Warren, noticing his social media stardom dimming increasingly, wants to perform big, flashy stunts for attention. Similarly frustrating, the other major plot follows Alex Warren and girlfriend Kouvr Annon. His mediocre music never seems to justify his vision of himself as a great rockstar, and his refusal to just film one TikTok ad to pay for his sprawling mansion, mind boggling. While the social media response seems to have squarely labeled Petrou as the villain, it is impossible to watch the show as an adult and not feel endlessly frustrated with Hudson. But wanting to ‘break out’ of his eboy TikTok person, Hudson no longer wanted to make his ads, angering Petrou. After Hudson wanted to build a rock music career, he moved from the Hype House to ‘Hype House LA’, a second mansion that, like the Hype House, was rented with the profits from sponsored Tiktoks the group filmed. The main drama of the show comes from the tension between influencers Thomas Petrou and Cole Chase Hudson, popularly known as Lil Huddy. In its eight episodes, the show attempts to explain the house’s continued existence.
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