"The Housemates Who Are Here To Win"

**"The Housemates Who Are Here To Win"** is the first episode of Season 1 of Kev & Get It, as well as the premiere of the series. It premiered on August 12th, 2016, and it consists of two parts.

This episode introduces the premise of the show, the host, and the cast of Season 1, and presents their first interactions with each other.

## Title

This episode was named after all of the contestants.

## Summary

The cast all walks in and gets to know each other.

## Cast

There was no guest cast present aside from several unseen extras in the production lot.

### Main

* Kev as the host
* Andreea Bunică as a contestant.
* Aurora Lizárraga as a contestant.
* Christophe Meunier as a contestant.
* Dahlia Balderas as a contestant.
* Eden Carpenter as a contestant.
* Fernando Villablanca as a contestant.
* Hudson Gamboa as a contestant.
* Maciej Jarosz as a contestant.
* Marina Solano as a contestant.
* Nyle Dawson as a contestant.
* Owen Delarosa as a contestant.
* Ramona Rossi as a contestant.
* Rosaline Corbeau as a contestant.
* Théo Thifault as a contestant.

## Production

This episode was shot on the very first day of the competition as the contestants arrived and got acquainted with each other; thus, its filming occurred before the shooting of all other material including promotional images. It was also shot before the contestants knew the specific details about the competition, including the prizes which were announced during the filming of this episode.

## Trivia

* "The Housemates Who Are Here To Win" is the first episode of the season and of the whole series. As such, it introduces the majority of the elements of the show, including the writing style, the visual elements, the confessionals, the host, etc.
* It is the first episode to air in-universe, but in real life it was not written until well after the second season was close to complete. The first episode to be written is also interestingly enough not the first episode of that season either; the first was in fact Episode 2 of Season 2, "The Boys Who Go Stargazing".
* Though not considered a character of the show, per se, the main story producer acts as an unseen force who often speaks on-screen. Her interactions with the characters are usually questions or quips, and recurring jokes, such as those with Fernando or Maciej, and they begin immediately at the start of this episode.

## Connections and References

* Life Is A Game and its disastrous release are referenced heavily in this episode. Fernando was a contestant in that season who was not happy with how he was treated during the show, and when he walks into this one he (correctly) surmises that he's mostly here to get him to sign an NDA or as a way of rewarding him for his cooperation.
* Several of the contestants were recognized by someone or another in this episode: Marina and Andreea were both generally recognized but mainly by Dahlia; Eden correctly identified Fernando from his prior work; and Andreea later implies she knows who Aurora is. However, the only pair to have a personal prior connection is Maciej and Théo, who had a rivalry develop between them due to complicated communications over Maciej's relationship with Théo's twin brother, Matthieu.

## Notable Events

* Fernando is immediately drawn to Eden here and he expresses his attraction, which implies that his relationship with Jessie from Life Is A Game ended sometime in the year between the airing of those shows. This is also the beginning of Eden and Fernando's relationship.