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The Hills
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Genre Reality television
Created by Adam DiVello
Starring Lauren Conrad
Audrina Patridge
Whitney Port
Heidi Montag
Lo Bosworth
Stephanie Pratt
Kristin Cavallari
Narrated by Lauren Conrad
Kristin Cavallari
Opening theme "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 6
No. of episodes 102 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Liz Gateley
Location(s) Los Angeles, California
Running time 30–60 minutes
Production company(s) Done and Done Productions
Broadcast
Original channel MTV
Picture format 16:9 480i
Audio format Stereo
Original run May 31, 2006 (2006-05-31) – July 13, 2010 (2010-07-13)
Chronology
Preceded by Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
Followed by The City
Related shows Audrina
External links
Website

The Hills is an American reality television series that originally aired on MTV from May 31, 2006 until July 13, 2010. Developed as the spin-off of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, the series aired six seasons and focused on the personal and professional lives of several young women residing in Los Angeles, California. Its premise was originated with Adam DiVello, while Liz Gateley served as the executive producer.

The series originally focused on Lauren Conrad, who appeared in its predecessor, as she pursued a career in the fashion industry. It additionally placed emphasis on her housemate Heidi Montag and their friends Audrina Patridge and Whitney Port. Conrad's friend Lo Bosworth and Montag's boyfriend Spencer Pratt developed major positions as part of the supporting cast in the second season, while his sister Stephanie Pratt was added in the third. After moving to New York City, Port left the series upon the conclusion of the fourth season to launch her own spin-off The City.

Looking to pursue other career opportunities, Conrad left the series halfway through the fifth season, and was subsequently replaced by fellow Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County cast member Kristin Cavallari. Bosworth and the female Pratt joined Cavallari and Patridge as primary cast members in the sixth and final season, while Montag and her husband Pratt were removed from the series after displaying erratic behavior.

The Hills received moderately favorable reviews from critics, and has been recognized as a "guilty pleasure" by several media outlets. However, the series was often criticized for tending towards a narrative format more commonly seen in scripted genres including soap operas, and appearing to fabricate much of its storyline. The show has produced several spin-offs, as well as distributed all seasons to DVD.

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Conception [edit]

In 2004, the reality television series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County premiered on MTV.[1] The program was created by Liz Gateley and documented the lives of several students attending Laguna Beach High School as they completed secondary education.[2] The series proved among the network's most successful programming,[3] though the entire original cast left after the second season and were replaced by another group of teenagers for the following season.[4] Television producer Adam DiVello developed the spin-off program The Hills to follow one of its predecessor's more popular cast members Lauren Conrad as she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the fashion industry.[5]

Series synopsis [edit]

Overview and casting [edit]

Lauren Conrad served as the series' central focus for the first five seasons.

The Hills chronicles the lives of several young women living in Los Angeles, California. Every installment commences with a voice-over narrative from series leads Lauren Conrad (seasons 1–5)[6] and Kristin Cavallari (seasons 5–6),[7] foreshadowing the theme of the episode. Each season concludes with a finale, typically involving a major event such as a progressing relationship or a personnel departure.[8][9] Most installments revolve around the women's everyday lives, but the show puts emphasis on their personal, rather than professional, lives.

Throughout its run, the series was led by three (season 5) and four (seasons 1–4, 6) primary cast members, who were credited by their first names. Its original main cast members were Conrad, Heidi Montag, Audrina Patridge, and Whitney Port.[10] Upon the conclusion of the fourth season, Port moved to New York City after receiving employment with Diane von Fürstenberg and was commissioned a short-lived spin-off The City.[11] During this time, rumors were widespread that Conrad wished to leave the series to pursue other career opportunities, though producers persuaded her to film ten additional episodes in the following season to close her storylines.[12] After departing halfway through the fifth season, she was replaced by Cavallari, a fellow former Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County cast member.[13] The sixth and final season saw Conrad's friends Lo Bosworth and Stephanie Pratt, who were respectively featured as supporting roles since the second and third seasons, become primary cast members.[14] Halfway through the season, Montag left the series after being excluded from other cast members.[15]

The aforementioned women's storylines were largely developed by a number of supporting cast members. Spencer Pratt, originally credited as "Heidi's boyfriend" and later "Heidi's husband", was added in the second season.[16] Their turbulent relationship became one of the program's central focuses through the remainder of its run. His former friends Brody Jenner and Frankie Delgado, both originally credited as "Spencer's friend" and later "Lauren's friend" were also hired that season.[17] The former had a brief romantic involvement with Conrad was credited as "Kristin's ex-boyfriend" after her departure, while the latter was titled "Brody's friend" after the casting adjustment.[7] The following season, Justin "Justin-Bobby" Brescia was recognized as "Audrina's boyfriend" and "Audrina's ex-boyfriend", and largely contributed to her storylines in later seasons.[18] After their relationship ended, he was briefly involved with Cavallari. Holly Montag, credited as "Heidi's sister", was briefly featured in the series from the fourth season onward.[19] The final major supporting cast member introduced was Stacie Hall in the fifth season; she was credited as "bartender" when working at The Dime,[20] and became "the bartender" after the conflict between herself, Montag, and Pratt came to fruition.[9] After the conflict settled, Hall remained on the series as "Kristin's friend".[21]

Storylines [edit]

See also: List of The Hills cast members
Heidi Montag began a relationship with Spencer Pratt, which ended her friendship with Lauren Conrad.

In its series premiere, The Hills first introduced Lauren Conrad, who moved from Laguna Beach, California to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the fashion industry.[22] She and her housemate Heidi Montag originally planned to attend the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, though the latter left the college after receiving employment with Bolthouse Productions.[23] Montag befriended their neighbor Audrina Patridge, while Conrad bonded with her fellow Teen Vogue co-intern Whitney Port.[22] The remainder of the first season highlighted the girls' romantic relationships, including Montag's and Patridge's brief relationships with Jordan Eubanks and Brian Drolet, respectively.[24][22] The season concluded as Conrad rejects a summertime internship in Paris to reunite with her former boyfriend Jason Wahler. Consequentially, Port was offered and accepted the position in her place.[25]

By the beginning of the second season, Conrad and Wahler ended their relationship, while Montag began dating the womanizing Spencer Pratt.[26] Montag increasingly spent more time with Pratt and neglected her friendship with Conrad, which placed a strain on the girls' friendship.[27] Meanwhile, Conrad strengthened her relationship with her best friend Lo Bosworth and took a romantic interest in Pratt's friend Brody Jenner.[28][29] Montag and Pratt moved into an apartment together by the season finale, at which point Patridge became Conrad's new housemate.[30]

After suspecting that Pratt fabricated rumors of a sex tape involving herself and Wahler, Conrad ended her relationship with Montag in the third season.[31] The ensuing feud between the women became a central focus of the series, and was carried through each subsequent season. Montag and Pratt became engaged and began planning their nuptials, while Patridge resumed a turbulent romantic relationship with her friend Justin "Justin Bobby" Brescia.[32] After Conrad established companionships with Jenner and his friend Frankie Delgado, Pratt severed ties with both men.[33] Meanwhile, as the feud between Conrad and Montag builds, Spencer's sister Stephanie Pratt initially took a disliking to Conrad, though upon the realization that they attend the same college, they became friends.[34] Their relationship put a burden on Pratt's relationship with her brother and Montag, who reacted by beginning to alienate her.[35] Conrad and Port eventually left their positions at Teen Vogue after receiving employment from Kelly Cutrone's PR firm People's Revolution.[36] By the end of the season, Conrad and Patridge moved out of their apartment and purchased a home, with new housemate Bosworth becoming a distancing factor between the former two.[37]

The fourth season sees Patridge reconcile with Bosworth and repair her relationship with Conrad before moving into a separate residence.[38] Holly Montag moved from her hometown of Crested Butte, Colorado into her sister and Pratt's apartment, which created tension between the women and Pratt.[39] Meanwhile, Montag was fired from her job with Bolthouse after becoming drunk during a company event.[38] While vacationing in Mexico, an intoxicated Montag and Pratt elope.[40] Upon returning to Los Angeles, she and Conrad appeared to come to common terms, though the latter's suspicions continued to inhibit a reconciliation.[41] Meanwhile, Port relocated to New York City to accept a position with Diane von Fürstenberg.[42]

As the fifth season began, the male Pratt developed a flirtatious bond with a local bartender Stacie Hall, to the dismay of Montag.[43] She delivered Pratt with an ultimatum to attend couples' therapy as a final attempt to salvage their relationship, who reluctantly agreed.[44] As they become re-engaged and decide to officially marry, Montag invited Conrad to their wedding. After she initially declined the offer, Montag convinced Pratt to call Conrad and apologize for starting the sex tape rumors.[45] After much additional deliberation, Conrad made her final appearance on the series during the midseason finale, where she attended the nuptials and reconciled with Montag.[46] Kristin Cavallari caught the bouquet at the wedding, and assumed the series' lead beginning in the second half of the season. She began a casual relationship with Brescia, at which point Patridge severed ties with him. Afterwards, the women developed a feud that continued through the remainder of the season.[47] Meanwhile, Montag and Pratt purchased a new house, and clash over the decision to begin a family; Montag wished to have children, while Pratt opposed the thought.[48]

Before filming for the sixth season commenced, Montag garnered significant criticism after undergoing ten cosmetic surgery procedures in one day. In the premiere, she traveled to her hometown Crested Butte to unveil the results to her family. After unexpectedly receiving much disapproval, she and her husband Pratt alienated themselves from their relatives.[49] Having later displayed additional instances of erratic and unusual behavior, their respective sisters decided to exclude them from their lives.[50] Having dated several years prior, Cavallari and Jenner become flirtatious once more, though the former was taken aback after the latter started seeing another woman.[51] Meanwhile, the female Pratt struggled to begin dating after being arrested for driving under the influence, but later became involved in a relationship.[52] Patridge became involved in a brief relationship with singer Ryan Cabrera and settles as friends with Brescia, while Bosworth moved in with her boyfriend Scott.[53][54] In the final scene of the series, it appears as if Jenner was seeing Cavallari off to Europe and looking on as she left. With the camera on Jenner, the Hollywood Hills backdrop was pulled away and the camera panned back to reveal that the entire scene was filmed on a backlot. In reality, Cavallari hadn't left for Europe and stepped out of a vehicle that hadn't driven off and hugged Jenner, warranting the question of whether or not the show was real.[52] Jenner later revealed that he had filmed an alternate ending of the series with Conrad, where "I [would] come back home, and basically Lauren's at my place [and I tell her about saying goodbye to a friend]. We filmed this whole lovey-dovey scene as if me and Lauren had been together this entire time".[55]

Reception [edit]

Critical response [edit]

The Hills was moderately well received among critics. The series' first season holds a score of 52 out of 100 on Metacritic, indicating "mixed or average reviews", based on eight reviews.[56] Robert Abele of LA Weekly complimented the program for being "insanely watchable",[57] while Variety's Brian Lowry criticized the storylines as being "as old as they come".[58] The second season garnered more favorable feedback, with Virginia Heffnernan of The New York Times opining that Conrad "now registers as charm".[59] After the falling-out between Conrad and Montag in the third season, Heffernan also commented that The Hills "is more convincing than Friends and just about any other comedy about female relationships because — as anyone who has ever been a young woman knows — undying friendships die".[60]

The decision to replace the departing Conrad with Cavallari halfway through the fifth season was met with a mixed response. Tim Stack of Entertainment Weekly expressed interest in the route the series would take, writing that the latter would "be fully prepared to stir things up".[61] Similarly, Yahoo!'s Ryan Christopher DeVault suggested that Cavallari would "increase the amount of drama" in the storylines.[62] However, after the premiere of the first episode under her lead, an editor from PopSugar criticized Cavallari's "sassy, bad-girl attitude" for lacking originality and preferred Conrad for "[keeping] it real".[63] The series finale during the sixth season garnered a generally negative critical response. Emily Exton from Entertainment Weekly described it as "probably a bit confusing" for failing to feature the original focuses of Conrad and Montag, instead featuring the less popular Lo Bosworth and Stephanie Pratt.[64] A writer for Gawker criticized that "as the camera zooms out into the South California nothingness, nothing has changed, and neither audience nor cast is for the better".[65] However, an editor from People was more positive, feeling that the conclusion was a "surprise twist".[66]

During its run, The Hills received several accolades from media outlets. It was recognized at number 82 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 100 New TV Classics.[67] The series has been labeled as a guilty pleasure by The Huffington Post,[68] MSN,[69], and BuzzSugar.[70]

Scripting allegations [edit]

Kristin Cavallari acknowledged that much of her involvement in The Hills was scripted.

The Hills was often criticized for appearing to fabricate much of its storyline. In one instance, Patridge noted that a producer offered her a position on the series to become friends with Conrad and Montag.[71] She later appeared on an episode of Chelsea Lately, where Chelsea Handler suggested the program was improvised. When pressed further, Patridge replied, "We're put in situations where however we'd react and that's what comes up [on TV]." She did state that there were no scripts, and Handler joked that MTV employed well-trained actors "if that's not a reality show", to which Patridge replied "Thank you...It is a big compliment".[72] In 2008, Montag and Pratt acknowledged that their Mexican elopement was "entirely symbolic", while their civil ceremony was filmed after office hours without a country court judge present. Additionally, the Associated Press noted that neither person had filed for a marriage record at the time.[73] An additional source of suspicion arose during the fifth season, where Conrad was shown to be moving out of her house the day prior to Montag and Pratt's nuptials.[46] However, Conrad and Bosworth had actually left the property several months prior in January, leading to speculation that addressing the wedding as "the next day" was pre-planned.[74]

After leaving The Hills, Conrad appeared on The View in June 2009, were she was asked how she felt about her apology from Pratt involving the sex tape rumors. She replied, "To be perfectly honest, I wasn't on the other line of that call...That was filmed and I wasn't on the other end...so I didn't know about it until--So, no, I never did get an apology. He's lying".[75] At Montag and Pratt's wedding, it was depicted on the series as if Conrad and Cavallari were displeased with each other's presence, though the latter commented that they gave each other "a big hug, and that's it". She also stated that when she joined The Hills, "It’s work! And drama sells. I think that’s why they’re bringing me in, because I know what works".[76]

In February 2011, Cavallari told Access Hollywood that the cast followed a "schedule" of events to be filmed on a given day, adding, "We only filmed The Hills three days a week, and we did three different scenes each day and a change of clothes to film a specific scene," she said. "They were pushing it as far as they could go without an actual script... They give you a schedule like, ‘You have lunch with Heidi [Montag] at 3 to talk about the party coming up' or whatever the situation may be".[77] She had earlier commented that she felt viewers "need to understand it's all entertainment" and she "would never put [her] close friends or a real relationship on a show".[78] Cavallari later told Ryan Seacrest that her relationships with Jenner and Brescia were fabricated.[79]

U.S. television ratings [edit]

The first season of The Hills maintained a steady viewership of about two million viewers for each weekly episode.[80] During the third season, the series achieved its most-viewed episode, "Paris Changes Everything", on March 17, 2008; it had attracted 4.8 million viewers in its original airing.[81] However, the fourth season premiere experienced a 25-percent ratings decline, attracting 2.6 million viewers, compared to the 3.8 million viewers of the third season finale.[82] The second half of the fifth season, also Cavallari's first episode as the lead, premiered to 2.1 million viewers, suffering a 30-percent drop from the premiere of the first half.[83] The series finale in July 2010 aired to three million viewers, becoming the peak viewership of the season.[84]

Broadcast history [edit]

Main article: List of The Hills episodes

The Hills' first season commenced airing immediately after the second season finale of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County on May 31, 2006.[22] The series continued to air on Wednesday evenings until its conclusion on August 2, 2006, at which point it had aired ten episodes.[25] The second season was expanded to twelve episodes and premiered on January 15, 2007, in its new timeslot on Mondays.[26] The finale aired on April 2, 2007.[30] The third season began airing on August 13, 2007, where it remained in the timeslot of the previous season.[31] Initially, the season was to air eighteen episodes, but was later expanded to a total of twenty-eight by its finale on May 12, 2008.[37]

The fourth season premiered on August 18, 2008, at which time it was moved back to its original Monday schedule. It consisted of twenty episodes, and concluded on December 22, 2008.[41] Airing of the fifth season was divided into two sections, Part I under Conrad's lead, and Part II after Cavallari was confirmed to join the series. Part I premiered on April 6, 2009 in the same timeslot, and concluded after ten episodes on May 31, 2009.[46] Part II premiered on September 29, 2009 and continued to air on Tuesday evenings.[47] The season aired a total of twenty episodes, each half spawning ten, before finishing on December 1, 2009.[85] The sixth season also aired on Tuesdays and premiered on April 27, 2010.[49] Twelve episodes later, the series ended its run after a total of 102 episodes on July 13, 2010.[52]

The City [edit]

Main article: The City (MTV series)
Whitney Port's spin-off aired two seasons.

In 2008, cast member Whitney Port was commissioned her own spin-off series The City.[86] The program premiered on December 28, 2009, four weeks after the fifth season finale of The Hills.[87] When she appeared on the original series' earlier seasons, she limited the exposure of her personal life, commenting that focusing on her career would make people "take [her] seriously". However, during production of The City, Port wanted to feature her private life to emphasize that "[her] head is still screwed on straight".[88] During the first half of the debut season, the program highlighted her transition to New York City after receiving employment from Diane von Fürstenberg.[89] However, upon the midseason finale, Port left her position and returned to People's Revolution with Kelly Cutrone.[90]

After an underwhelming performance, the series underwent several casting adjustments for the second half of the first season. Port and her rival Olivia Palermo remained, though Port's boyfriend Jay Lyon, his roommate Adam Senn, and her friend Erin Lucas were removed from the program and replaced by Port's friends Roxy Olin and Erin Kaplan.[91] The revamped cast remained for the second season,[92] which premiered after the sixth season of The Hills on April 27, 2010.[93] One of the more prominent storylines broadcast was the deterioration of Port and Olin's friendship, which culminated with the latter moving out of their shared apartment.[94] The season concluded on July 13, 2010, the same evening as the series finale of The Hills.[95] In October 2010, Port confirmed that The City would not be renewed by MTV after a continued ratings decline.[96]

Other spin-offs [edit]

Aside from The City, The Hills spawned two additional related series and one proposed program. Kelly Cutrone received her own spin-off program Kell on Earth, which premiered on February 1, 2010 on Bravo. It chronicled the daily operations at People's Revolution as well as her private life,[97] and was canceled after airing one season.[98] That September, Lauren Conrad filmed a pilot episode for a program that would have focused on her professional endeavors,[99] though MTV passed on the project after Conrad preferred not to feature her personal life.[100] Audrina Patridge was commissioned the VH1 program Audrina in 2011, which focused on herself and her family.[101] However, like Kell on Earth, the series was canceled after its debut season due to underwhelming ratings.[102]

Distribution [edit]

The Hills episodes aired regularly on MTV in the United States. All episodes are approximately thirty minutes, and were broadcast in standard definition. The series' episodes are also available for download at the iTunes Store.[103] Episodes were previously available for viewing through the official MTV website, though they have since become unavailable since the series' conclusion.[104] The series, in addition to Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, were premiered in syndication in fall 2009.[105] Since its debut, Paramount Pictures has released all six seasons of The Hills onto DVD, to regions 1, 2, and 4. Each product includes all episodes of the respective season, in addition to deleted scenes and interviews of series personnel.[106]

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