How The Challenge changed over 500 episodes

Us Weekly

Executive producer Danny Wascou, who has been with the MTV hit reality show for 20 years, marked Wednesday's 500th-episode milestone by reflecting on the show's evolution. "The storytelling of the show and of the series has changed over time," he says. "We’ve always been, I like to call it a reality competition soap opera. We bring all these people back, but when we started doing Rivals and Exes, it was about their interpersonal relationships with each other. They had to sort of, like, heal whatever wound it was before they could even do well in the competition." He noted that the themes “leveled up the storytelling,” and that he’d “love to see some of those again in the future.”

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