Instant Hotel and Stay Here are both on Netflix, and both take place primarily in home stay rentals like AirBNBs. But they’re otherwise very different.
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Flinch, Netflix’s first game show, involves stupidity, not skill
A review of Flinch, a very, very dumb show that’s like a combination of Fear Factor + Saw + Jackass.
Netflix’s next choose-your-own-adventure: Bear Grylls’ pseudo-reality show You vs. Wild
You’ll be able to choose what Bear Grylls does next on Netflix’s interactive, pre-taped show.
How Dating Around was filmed, according to Lex and two producers
Behind the scenes of Dating Around, the Netflix series that follows one person going on five blind dates.
How Final Table’s culinary cultural diversity crumbled over time
In this edition of The Confessional, Aiyanna Maciel writes about her appreciation for Netflix’s The Final Table—and her disappointment with its outcome.
Netflix’s Dating Around has romance, clever editing, and more than just straight white guys
One person has five first dates on Dating Around, which gives us multiple episodes with queer people of color dating other queer people of color. That shouldn’t be remarkable, but it is.
Review: Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, a clutter-free Netflix reality show
Marie Kondo brings her organizational strategies to people’s homes, and to reality TV.
Reviews of Netflix’s Westside and Amazon’s Inside Jokes, in which talent meets reality
Two groups of talented artists, two showcases for their talent, two very different reality shows.
A review of The Final Table, Netflix’s attempt at MasterChef
Netflix’s new culinary competition is MasterChef on a spaceship without the charm.
This clip of Queer Eyes’ Tan France and Hasan Minhaj should be the pilot for a reality show
To promote his new Netflix show, Hasan Minhaj went clothes shopping with Queer Eye’s Tan France. Watching them interact for 10 minutes is pure joy.
How Samin Nosrat turned her book Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat into Netflix’s first instructional cooking show
An interview with Samin Nosrat, the James Beard award-winning chef and author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.
Review: In Dancing Queen, Alyssa Edwards steps aside for Justin Johnson
The Netflix series tells the story of Justin Johnson’s life, today and before Alyssa Edwards.
Recommended: Million Pound Menu, which combines Shark Tank with Top Chef’s restaurant wars
A review of BBC Two’s Million Pound Menu, which is now on Netflix.
Nailed It season two’s Queer Eye crossover, and Cooking on High’s many lows
Nailed It season two is still a genre-ignoring pile of exuberance and silliness, but Cooking on High is about as useful as a wet joint.
A few of Netflix’s 50+ reality series coming this year
Adriano Zumbo will judge a competition produced by Top Chef producers Magical Elves; Great British Baking Show producers Love Productions will try to reinvent the docu-soap with a musical series; and a cooking-with-weed show will have 10-minute episodes.