Reality TV
‘WWE: Unreal’ Season 2 Review – A More Personal Follow-Up Makes Some Smart Choices
WWE: Unreal was a cynical marketing ploy when it debuted, and most people – wrestling fans most of all – didn’t especially care for it....
‘WWE: Unreal’ Is Built On A Fundamentally Bad Idea
There’s a concept in professional wrestling – or “sports entertainment”, whatever you prefer – known as “kayfabe”. In simple terms, it’s the idea of keeping...
Netflix’s ‘Hitmakers’ Reflects the Manufactured Age of the Music Industry
There was a time, and there still are purists today, when musicians were judged for not writing their songs, especially in rap and hip-hop, with...
Netflix’s ‘Building the Band’ Has a Brilliant Twist—And One Big Flaw
As someone who grew up in the early 2000s with a music-obsessed mother who introduced me to various music reality TV series, such as Pop...
Netflix Is Releasing Its Own ‘The Traitors’ and ‘The Fortune Hotel’ Style Show
If you enjoy a reality competition series that combines strategy and deception, Netflix is bringing you the highly anticipated Million Dollar Secret, which will premiere...
‘Molly-Mae: Behind It All’ Proves That The Influencer Is Just Like The Rest Of Us
The only perspective I was trying to gauge when watching the reality series Molly-Mae: Behind It All was to determine whether Molly-Mae Hague is a...
Amazon’s ‘Wish List Games’ Is An Energetic Gameshow With An Insidious Undercurrent
Amazon is a company that needs no introduction, known to many as the monolithic e-commerce store (though its most important product is Amazon Web Services),...
‘Are you Smarter than a Celebrity?’ Is A Throwback Family-Fun Game Show
Fans of the iconic game show series Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? are in for a treat with Are You Smarter Than a...
Netflix’s ‘The Influencer’ Is Like Being Tortured At Length
Times have changed, and if you didn’t think so already, The Influencer, a South Korean “social survival” series streaming on Netflix, will change your mind...
‘AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’ Confirms Greg Whiteley As The Best Sports Documentary Creator Of All Time
The main takeaway from AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders is that being part of the team of dancers is not necessarily some popularity contest for your...
‘Buying London’ Season 2 Should Absolutely Not Happen – Here’s Why
People who watch reality TV shows are pretty forgiving. I mean, we watch a lot of trash, consume the drama, love and hate it, and...
‘Buying London’ Feels Obviously Scripted, And It’s Angering Viewers
Buying London is a clone of the popular US show Selling Sunset, but critics and viewers are deeply unsatisfied with the show’s flagrantly scripted nature....
‘Buying London’ is a Desperate Copycat
It took me two minutes to figure out Buying London. After you get through the painful introduction from property mogul Daniel Daggers gloating about himself,...
Netflix Heads To South Africa In ‘The Ultimatum’ Spin-Off
Netflix‘s The Ultimatum: South Africa is another relationship-based reality show that intimately follows six couples who have been together for a long time and now...
‘The Circle’ Was Filmed in the U.S. For the First Time In Season 6
The Circle is back on Netflix for Season 6, with another group of hopefuls taking up residency in an Atlanta apartment block where they have...
You Too Can Stay At The Vanderpump Villa In France — And For Less Than You Might Think
Vanderpump Villa is a spin-off show that follows Lisa Vanderpump and her hand-picked team setting off to run a luxury European villa. With the villa...
Who Was the Winner Of ‘Is It Cake?’ Season 3 and Where Are They Now?
Henderson Gonzalez won Is It Cake? Season 3, becoming the latest victor in the popular reality cooking show with a unique gimmick. For three seasons the Netflix...
Meet the Physical: 100 Season 2 contestant who loved Korea so much that he never left
Justin Harvey is another contestant who has captured the attention of fans tuning into Season 2 of Physical: 100. Like Emmanuel, Harvey is not Korean but...
This contestant from Physical: 100 Season 2 immediately caught the eye of viewers
Emmanuel is one of the contestants in Physical: 100 Season 2 and immediately caught the eye of viewers for several reasons. One is that he’s not Korean...
Blown Away Season 5 Is Not Confirmed Yet
Netflix has not yet confirmed Blown Away Season 5, but given the global popularity of the reality competition series, it’s likely that a renewal announcement will...