DCist hasn’t previewed a screener of tonight’s premiere episode of The Real World D.C., which is set to air at 10 p.m. on MTV. But poor Washington Post Style writer Hank Stuever did, and his thoughts can be summed up in the following passage:

Washington is not too boring for “The Real World,” but times have changed. Now it turns out to be the other way around: “The Real World” is too boring for Washington.

Or anyplace else. The show is moribund, calcified and predictably dull — so much so that it’s hard to believe there are still young people who will volunteer for this duty. Being on “The Real World” now looks remarkably old-fashioned, like attending some ancient cotillion, or meeting the other Archies down at the malt shop.

Precisely. But will we still watch? Probably. At the beginning. At least the first episode. Or the first 10 minutes of the first episode. However much we can stomach before swearing the whole thing off as so much painful tedium.