The Onions S*x House: An obscure kino

Hey dramacels. Today I wanted to talk a little bit about one of my favorite extremely obscure kino's. I'm not even quite sure if it could be classified as a movie or TV at all.

It's a webseries, so I guess that wouldn't usually fit the bill, but this one does. It's art.

The show I'm speaking of, and you're going to role your eyes at this one, is The Onions S*x House.

For those of you who just woke up from a 15 year coma, The Onion is a... Media outlet, that's main niche is news satire, but there's a lot more to the show than Onion-esque humor.

But what is S*x House?

S*x house is a mock reality TV show, the premise being, “six sexy Americans, alone in a house with nothing to do except get nasty.” Basically it's like Big Brother, except without the banishment or the gimmicks. Instead, the end goal of the show is for everyone to have s*x, or have s*x with as many other contestants as possible, or something along those lines.

It's never really clarified, but it also doesn't really matter, since the show quickly diverges from the cliche, overdramatic content format of reality TV. The series quickly devolves, becoming a twisted, existential horror-esque parody of it's former self.

The term parody doesn't really do it justice.

Meta might be the best descriptor for it, actually. The format slowly changes from spoof reality TV show to a series about this degenerate satirical reality TV show. As the show progresses it transcends it's premise and becomes a scathing critique of reality TV and more importantly of the culture in which it thrives.

The idea of show is already inherently fricked up, and the sexy encounters between contestants, specifically between a married man and an 18 year old Mormon Virgin, quickly immerse the characters into a world of emotional trauma.

Everything gets worse as the show progresses. Food supplies for the contestants start running low and rotting, and there are no frequent deliveries. Instead of food, the cabinets are filled with alcohol to encourage s*x, a result of a production team, and a culture, that values spectacle and entertainment over human dignity and well-being.

What's more, without anywhere to store the trash, the s*x house quickly becomes infested with mold. Appliances around the house start breaking down catastrophically too, and the s*x house slowly transforms into a deathtrap.

Conflict arises between the show runners and contestants, who become increasingly angry at their lack of privacy or autonomy, and aware that the show and it's audience values them having s*x over their dignity.

The contestants start rebelling against the show. One by one they begin refusing to have s*x, leading to the network clamping down on them. They restrict food supplies, and refuse to fix appliances unless everyone starts having s*x, and turn the whole horrific thing into a combination of Saw and The Truman Show.

There's an element of clueless apathy in the show runners responses, as if they're so used to making a circus out of peoples lives that they genuinely don't understand where the contestants are coming from.

As one of the contestants puts it. “To call this place evil implies a clarity of purpose I do not want to attribute to anyone involved”. That quote isn't just a critique of the S*x House show.

It, like the entire show, speaks of a culture of reality TV, a culture that makes entertainment out of chaos and a spectacle out of human suffering, a culture that rDrama is a prime example of.

The whole thing gets really philosophical towards the end, and the climax is a pretty blatant allusion to Plato's allegory of the cave, but I don't want to spoil more than that.

Just go watch it, it's unironically really good.