Hype House (TV series)

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Hype House
Hype House Logo.png
Genre Reality
Based on The Hype House
Starring
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producers
  • Kit Gordon
  • Deanna Markoff
  • Luke Neslage
  • Will Nothacker
  • Eric Wattenberg
EditorMac Caudill
Production companiesWheelhouse Entertainment
Spoke Studios
Original release
Network Netflix
ReleaseJanuary 7, 2022 (2022-01-07)

Hype House is an American reality television series, released on Netflix on January 7, 2022. The show follows the lives of each member of the Hype House, a group of content creators who make videos for the social media application TikTok.

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Cast

Background

The Hype House is a Los Angeles–based group of content creators, who live in the same home and post videos to TikTok and YouTube respectively. The settlement was founded by Thomas Petrou, Daisy Keech, Alex Warren, Chase Hudson. Several TikTok creators with large followings were members of the group, including Charli D'Amelio, Dixie D'Amelio, and Addison Rae. [2]

Episodes

No.TitleOriginal release date
1"A Hype House Divided"January 7, 2022 (2022-01-07)
2"Love and Social Media"January 7, 2022 (2022-01-07)
3"Low-key Beefing"January 7, 2022 (2022-01-07)
4"POV: Fake Wedding"January 7, 2022 (2022-01-07)
5"Alex and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week"January 7, 2022 (2022-01-07)
6"Clique Bait"January 7, 2022 (2022-01-07)
7"Friendship Goals"January 7, 2022 (2022-01-07)
8"Glow Up"January 7, 2022 (2022-01-07)

Reception

Reception of the show by the general public has been generally negative. Many subscribers to Netflix threatened to cancel their subscription due to the release of the show. [3]

Critics are mostly negative. Stephanie McNeal wrote for Buzzfeed News that the show managed to "somehow make being young, rich, and famous in Los Angeles seem horribly depressing." She also wrote that the stars, despite their popularity, were ultimately very boring and unmemorable to watch (with the exception of Larray and Nikita Dragun) and the show itself was "certainly an interesting insight into the machinations of content houses and the struggles that come with them, but it is not a very fun or interesting show." [4]

Allyson Weissman, writing for the student newspaper The Daily Bruin, gave it 2 out of 5 stars, calling the series "uneventful and lifeless". [5]

Madeline Roth of The Daily Beast in a negative review called the show "mind-numbing" and that Larray and Nikita Dragun were "the two saving graces of Hype House". [6]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nikita Dragun</span> American internet personality (born 1996)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charli D'Amelio</span> American social media personality (born 2004)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dixie D'Amelio</span> American social media personality (born 2001)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Larray</span> American social media personality/ YouTuber (born 1998)

Larri Merritt, professionally known as Larray, is an American YouTuber and social media influencer. He produces comedic video content on his YouTube channel, and was part of the collaborative TikTok collective known as The Hype House. After initially gaining prominence on Vine, he started uploading videos onto YouTube after the former became defunct.

Cole Chase Hudson, known professionally as Huddy, is an American singer, actor, and social media personality, known for co-founding the TikTok collective the Hype House, and popularizing the e-boy fashion style and subculture. A 2020 article in Billboard Magazine rated him as one of the top 10 music influencers on TikTok that year, with over 30 million followers, and one of the most influential people on the platform. He has also been cited by Paper as an important figure in the 2020s pop punk revival.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brittany Broski</span> American social media personality (born 1997)

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Thomas Petrou is an American social media personality and entrepreneur of Greek descent, known for his TikTok and YouTube channels. Petrou is a founder of The Hype House, a group of online-content creators and the Hollywood Spanish-style mansion that they reside in together. Thomas also briefly lived in the Team 10 house before being fired for unknown reasons in August 2019. As of August 8, 2022, Petrou has amassed over 1.87 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.9 million followers on TikTok.

A content house, or also known as a collab house, creator house, content collective or influencer group, is a residential property which is most commonly used by internet celebrities, social media influencers or content creators in order to provide a focus on creating content for social media platforms, such as YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Noah Beck</span> American influencer (born 2001)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Khaby Lame</span> Italian influencer (born 2000)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alex Warren</span> American YouTuber and singer

Alexander Warren Hughes is an American singer-songwriter and comedic video creator on YouTube. He is also popular on TikTok and Instagram. He was previously a member and a co-founder of the collaborative TikTok group The Hype House.

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References

  1. "TikTok's Hype House is coming to Netflix — but don't expect to see its biggest stars". Los Angeles Times. April 23, 2021. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  2. II, Moises Mendez. "Here are the members of the Hype House, the TikTok collective that is getting its own Netflix reality show". Insider. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  3. Heisler, Yoni (April 26, 2021). "Angry subscribers are canceling Netflix over a new show that was just announced". BGR. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  4. McNeal, Stephanie (January 7, 2022). "Netflix's "Hype House" Is So Sad". Buzzfeed News. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  5. Weissman, Allyson. "TV review: Netflix's new reality show 'Hype House' fails to live up to hype". The Daily Bruin. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  6. Roth, Madeline (January 7, 2022). "Netflix's 'Hype House' Is Filled With TikTok Stars Who Seem Absolutely Miserable". The Daily Beast. Retrieved January 8, 2022.