On Loving “Terrace House” Now More Than Ever newyorker.com

The premise of “Terrace House” is brazenly simple: three men and three women live unsupervised in an immaculately stocked house.
(“That’s all they do?” a new viewer asks in a satirical video about defensive “Terrace House” fans.
Fan accounts, from Terrace House Food Shots to No context Terrace House, find their wares in heavy circulation on Twitter, and the series’s Reddit account hosts a deeply active membership.
Still, there are constructive parallels to be drawn between the world of “Terrace House” and the world we live in now.
Some move into the house thinking that a stint on “Terrace House” will jumpstart their careers, and others come looking for love, some swearing, convincingly, that a sojourn on “Terrace House” is their absolute last chance at it.