"Break up caused by meat! Break up caused by meat!" - The official TERRACE HOUSE thread

I was at a kids bday party this weekend. My wife's friend's older sister mentioned to my wife that her 20 year old daughter (a model, now living in Tokyo) is dating someone who is/was a cast member from Terrace House. That is all the information that she was able to get from her, this person doesn't know anything about the show other than very surface details. Will try to follow up with more info at a later date.

I was just looking at the vrbo for the house in o'ahu.

https://www.vrbo.com/1221661

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, January 31, 2020 6:29 AM (two hours ago)

voted!

Today's episode was lowkey amazing, the person you think is least likely to be an incredibly kind/empathetic/bearer of excellent advice steals the show.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, December 30, 2019 10:14 PM (one month ago)

This person is still doling out really amazing advice! She's like the female Han-san.

i was just looking up how many episodes there are now and just slightly spoiled myself by a pic of one of the new castmates who was very noticeable.

Her entrance is pretty amazing, a real roller coaster in <60 seconds.

Broken egg thread reminding me of Ruka’s cracking eggs directly into a pan of boiling pasta. <3

Excited for next part of Terrace House to land. Thrilled for TH thread’s members representing in the TV poll too.

yeah, I am always amazed by people who cook like they have never seen the act of cooking before, which...might be true.

voted for this obv but let it be known I put Ainori above it even though they both get 10 points

I want to go to a japanese costco so badly.

Not as a date though ;)

dream date!

Utterly addicted to this show after a couple friends recommended it. My wife and I blew through the Tokyo episodes on NF in less than a week and had to find the newest ones as there's no way I could live with that cliffhanger for two months. I think part 3 has probably been the most interesting of this season so far, and I love the advice-giving castmate mentioned above

What do you all recommend for the next season of TH to watch? I imagine this was probably discussed before but I'm a little scared to read spoilers of prev seasons

Start at the beginning (which is a total hassle because it's not on NF incl. Japan) but it is not only the best season but the panel constantly refers back to the original series. There's also a 2 hour film "Closing Door" that takes place immediately after season 1 ends which is pretty good. But yeah chronological is a good start. In my opinion this current series is the best of the past 3. I'd rank them:

BGND + Closing Door
BGiTC
Tokyo 19-20
OND
AS

ugh, I STILL have not finished the original TH. It's hard to pick it back up. Netflix needs to purchase it.

Ok I'll look for that, thanks. I don't know if this is common among TH fans but we started skipping the panel segments after 6 episodes or so. It was a combo of the panel making a bunch of references to prev seasons we didn't understand + we became impatient to get back to the action + we occasionally found the panel boring. But I'm regretting that a little (especially after one moment this season where a castmate is affected by the panel's thoughts when that castmate watches the show) and I'll probably go back and rewatch their thoughts on key moments

when i first started watching (I started with Aloha State) I was skipping the panel because I didn't get them. But seriously...they are probably the best part of the show. Start watching tham all.

Yeah as Carey says: once you realize the panel is the best part of the show you will regret that later. Plus a lot of alumni show up (and rejoin as cast, some several times!)

And not to say the current season is "bad" necessarily, it's just that TH has become a huge vehicle for the castmembers so there is a lot of kayfabe going on (you learn a lot about this towards the end of BGitC), whereas in BGND (my abs. fave), the vibe/action is much more pure.

The degree of kayfabe (I had to look this word up, btw - useful word) in the show is another thing I am very curious about. There was a moment in a episode where a character outside the house was surprised at hearing some news, but then, there was a camera set up so obviously they knew something was going on. There's some other small important moments in the house that are caught on camera and I have to wonder if it's serendipitous or whether anything is restaged. Overall, the producers do a good job of making things seem real/natural. But again, don't really want to go looking for articles that reveal the nuts and bolts and then spoil earlier stuff for myself!

I did not know this word either. Was it Lauren Tsai that talked about how only a couple of hours were filmed each day?

That wouldn't surprise me. Seems almost all recordings in the house are done in the morning or at night, when everyone is around. And the cameras sometimes track people as they move inside the house so a director/crew must be working live at those times? I imagine no matter how "real" this show is, it must be a nightmare to film and edit

Assuming this thread can act as a catch-all for Japanese reality television, it seems right to announce here that the new Ainori Love Wagon: African Journey is now up on Netflix! We watched most of it elsewhere - just three episodes remain. It is as harrowing and compelling as ever.

JFC that was the most harrowing episode ever. There's no way the rest of the house will be the same from here on out.

...worse than the Cheri blow-up in Aloha State, worse than the Misaki-Natsumi fight in BGitC, with just some added dread & anxiety & just sheer cringe.

I haven't seen the last couple episodes of the Tokyo season, but I did want to thank you Al for recommending the BGND season, which was indeed hard to find but has been a godsend in these stressful times. We watched about 5 episodes a night, finishing with Closing Door yesterday, and it blows the Tokyo season away. Just seems a matter of good fortune/good casting that several of the initial group end up with such strong connections with each other, that it set the tone for the house the whole series. I think it's evidenced by the fact that former cast members visit back a lot - their bonds seem much stronger than the friendships in the newest season. Of course, it was also a much longer period of time. Tecchan's journey in particular was also really great to watch

:-)

Yikes, yes that was an intense episode. And not between the characters I was expecting

Vinnie, you will be happy you binged BGND before today's episode... surprisingly loving, wholesome and touching tribute from seemingly out of nowhere. Washed the nasty taste of last week's episode away.

ohh, i think we get the new section tomorrow.

I feel very remiss that I never finished the first series.

I'm thinking of watching it again!

Finish it Yerac! I think some of the best moments happen near the end. Perfect for these times

it's so hard streaming/downloading it sometimes. we forget about it. I keep hoping they get it on netflix to make it easy. I have no clue where I am in it. i probably just have to look back in this thread to figure it out because we never ended up picking it back up.

uh.. Uke seems to have gone on a regiment after the last series of episodes.

eden kai.

Agree that it was really difficult to find the last few episodes of the first season, but we managed in the end. Tecchan was one of the all-time housemates.

New season part up, hooray! I have no idea if the allusions ARB is making will reveal themselves in this part or next? It showed up as a next play after finishing Sion Sono's 'Forest of Love', which was...ominous?

Well especially as the main character looked a bit like Tokui, who has *dramatic music* mysteriously vanished! ;)

Episode 38 is the one that was very dark and super negative. Episode 39 aired yesterday and was much better. The new housemate is a throwback (in many ways) to the original vibe of BGND.

The stuff we're mentioning will be part 4, but part 3 was very engrossing!

Was the new housemate in 39 ever featured incidentally in a previous season? Seems like he might have been, given his ties to previous cast. Yes, the tribute in the last ep was nice. I hadn't even known he died until I started looking up the BGND cast to see what they're doing now. Seems like Oji had the highest-profile career of the bunch!

Also, I noticed that a couple housemates in the last episode wore masks inside without mentioning being sick and I'm wondering if we're running into when they would have been aware of COVID...

just reached Kai's stand-up show, and tbh, if anything in a later episode is more harrowing than that, then it should probably be taken off Netflix for the common good

in my post above, i was referencing eden kai's current instagram. he looks different.

awww Ruka had such a good ending.

we have reached Kai's second stand-up and I want him kicked off the show. I want Yamachan to personally haul him out of Terrace House by the collar and chuck his belongings out of the window after him

the men in the house right now (ep 35) are a weird creep, the worst fucking comedian in history and some pathetic dweeb who's probably also a creep. get rid of them all and bring back peppe or just find someone to love hana ;_; ffs

ah OK fine I guess I approve

but your stand-up, it has to go

ok, i just realize there is a guy named Kai and not just Eden Kai. Only past 3 episodes of the new batch.

it was awesome how fast yamachan ID'd Tupas.