DR MattH re: THE HILLS
I'm assuming you are reviewing season 3?
If you ever wanted to get a backstory, mtv has stuff online like "all 3 seasons in 11 minutes"...
You mentioned something about it seeming contrived that "enemies" end up at the same place at the same time.
When i first started watching i could not figure the show out. Was it scripted? Was it real?
What i've come to understand (through various interviews...) is that it is supposedly not scripted at all. The producers ask the cast (the 3 leads: adriana, lauren, heidi) their schedules for the week. and then they decide which events to follow.
Some things (like most of the stuff with their parents) are not shown. and there are sometimes people who don't want to be filmed. So that part of their lives are not shown.
I'm not exactly sure how confrontations occur (i.e., people being at the same place at the same time). I sort of suspect that the actual players don't know this in advance. But that others suggest they go to these places.