Great American Recipe is PBS’s disappointingly bland cooking competition
PBS’s first cooking show could have been its signature reality competition. Alas, it’s bland, lacking acid and heat—and has no real identity.
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Why is Great Food Truck Race not a road trip? How do I apply for Baking Championship(s)?
In today’s edition of Ask Andy, two questions about Food Network shows: How to apply for Holiday Baking Championship, Halloween Baking Championship, Spring Baking Championship, or Kids Baking Championship; and why The Great Food Truck Race isn’t moving around the country any more.
Netflix’s Squid Game reality show won’t murder you. They promise.
On Squid Game: The Challenge, 456 players will compete for $4.56 million, and probably won’t be killed. If you trust the rich corporation that’s putting this together.
On A&E’s Digital Addiction, technology becomes an excuse for an intervention
A&E’s Digital Addiction follows the Intervention model, filming someone and then surprising them with an intervention. But digital addiction, despite being the focus, ends up being only a symptom, not the problem.
Floor is Lava 2, now with an ejaculating volcano, is more complicated and more fun
Netflix’s ridiculous reality competition series Floor is Lava improves upon the season-one ridiculousness with an improved format and less repetitiveness.
Who Do You Believe? ABC’s true crime show invites you to identify the liar(s)
ABC’s true-crime reality show Who Do You Believe? invites us to figure out who’s telling the truth and who’s lying, and to accuse someone of a crime. Is this a good idea? Actually, maybe!
Lizzo’s Watch Out For The Big Grrrls: an empowering and enthusiastic competition
Women of color in larger bodies are not just embraced, they’re celebrated on Lizzo’s Watch Out For The Big Grrrls, an Amazon Prime Video show that is energetic and refreshing in many ways.