The contestants live together in a house inhabited by another group of people known as the alts (for their alternative lifestyles).

The show aired on the Sci Fi Channel in the United States and on Space in Canada.

[1] Virginia Heffernan of The New York Times found the series "unsettling" and "ghoulish" but wondered if it might lead middle America to examine the casualness of their religious beliefs.

The group claimed that her dress identified her as a priestess of Yemoja of the Ifá tradition of the Yoruba people.

The suit sought a court order requiring that the program not identify Asanti as a voodoo priestess.