Why Top Chef Kristen Kish’s new NatGeo series is so liberating and personal
My interview with Top Chef winner and Iron Chef co-host Kristen Kish about Restaurants at the End of the World, her new NatGeo show.
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Great reality TV shows, outstanding documentary series, must-read stories about reality show stars and productions, and must-listen reality podcasts—everything that reality blurred editor and TV critic Andy Dehnart recommends. (Learn more about Andy.)
Is The Traitors UK better than Traitors US? Recaps and a review
The Traitors UK recaps are here, now that the show is available in the US on Peacock. How does it compare to The Traitors US? What did you think of this wild and wonderful season, and all of its emotions?
MTV’s The Exhibit is worth a look thanks to the strength of its modern artists
MTV’s The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist is a great competition between modern artists competing for an exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Hirschhorn.
What Tournament of Champions 4 changed, and what stayed the same
Tournament of Champions and its Randomizer are back! Are its previous winners? Is Hunter Fieri? Has it retained its status as Food Network’s best competition? I have thoughts!
Love Trip Paris: Freeform’s dating show goes to an unexpected, refreshing place
Freeform’s Love Trip: Paris sends four women to Paris to date a group of people. But it’s far more interesting than standard dating reality TV shows.
Is Superchef Grudge Match a super new Food Network competition?
Darnell Ferguson hosts Food Network’s newest competition: Superchef Grudge Match, on which two chefs face off, trash talk, and try to trip each other up.
Hulu’s new show wants to make you uncomfortable, because we’ve been ‘indoctrinated’
Hulu’s The 1619 Project is designed to make us feel discomfort, in part because it’s tearing down myths that we’ve been told.