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True Life (1998)

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Genre
documentary television program
Country
United States
Length
13 seasons, 323 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Each episode follows real people going through a specific experience or situation. A camera crew documents their daily lives over a period of time.

observationalrawintimaterealisticstraightforwardpersonalgrounded

What happens

True Life is an American documentary television series that aired on MTV from March 31, 1998, to June 21, 2017. Each episode follows a particular topic, such as heroin addiction as in the first episode – "Fatal Dose". The show is created by following a series of subjects by a camera crew through a certain part of their lives. A four-episode revival series titled True Life/Now aired in 2019 and a crime investigation iteration called True Life Crime premiered in 2020. A TV special titled True Life Presents: First-Time First Responders premiered on June 9, 2020. A four-part docu-series titled True Life Presents: Quarantine Stories premiered on August 5, 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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