It's a mixed bag, i actually worked on this show back late last year. They filmed most of it in Portland and went down to LA for a couple weeks towards the end.
It's not scripted, the people in it just dont have a full idea of what the show is, Nathan and the producers would make up some shyt (that was easy enough for everyone else to play along with) to tell the people acting, then we'd do something completely different so we got a real reaction out of them, when you're doing a show like this you only need Nathan/Producers/ the people babysitting the actors to really be locked in to the lies/truth
There were SO many times we just straight up had to hide from the actors before the walked in thr building (replica bar and raising cane for instance)
like 60 people off camera just hiding behind a wall, hiding in trailers outside peoples houses etc. The shyt was silly tbh. Just had to keep convos with the actors super light just in case they were trying to figure out some shyt.
Going out to that house in the woods every day was dope i cant fron't
eatin lunch/smokin weed in the garden while 20 people are packed in that musty ass camera room snooping on that woman