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.
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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.
Review: Netflix’s Evil Genius, an intriguing but unsatisfying true crime series
A review of Netflix’s new documentary reality series about the mysterious case of a pizza delivery man who robbed a bank and then was killed by a collar bomb.
The Great Interior Design Challenge is the splendid makeover that the interior design competition needed
My new reality TV competition obsession from the UK has amateur designers redecorating rooms in buildings already blanketed with history.
Review: In Nailed It, a celebration of trying and failing, America has its signature baking competition
Nicole Byer hosts Netflix’s wonderful baking competition, which dispenses with the usual reality TV chicanery and phony, hyperbolic stakes, and just has fun.
Queer Eye and Nailed It renewed by Netflix
Netflix has quickly renewed two of its newest reality shows, Queer Eye and Nailed It, for second seasons.
A review of The Big Family Cooking Showdown, the BBC show on Netflix
If you need a television show to invite you inside from the cold, and wrap you in a warm blanket of food and family, The Big Family Cooking Showdown is here for you, and it’s brought The Great British Baking Show‘s best flavors with it. The cooking competition, which is on Netflix, aired earlier this fall… continue reading
Netflix’s next reality competition: pain, discomfort, and fear
Netflix renewed its competition series Ultimate Beastmaster, and is also producing a new competition, Flinch, that subjects its contestants to pain designed to scare them.
BBC’s Big Family Cooking Showdown arrives in America today
The Big Family Cooking Showdown sounds like it could be the title of another generic Food Network show, but it’s not: it’s a new competition from the UK, and it’s debuting on Netflix today.
Thoughts about Terrace House, Netflix’s revival of a Japanese series (and early reality TV)
Netflix’s Terrace House: Boys & Girls in the City and Terrace House: Aloha State are reminders of early reality TV—and of our role in reality TV today.
Review: The Keepers and S-Town are not about murders. They’re about survivors.
Reviews of the Netflix documentary series The Keepers and the Serial podcast S-Town, both of which are extraordinary works of narrative nonfiction.
Who killed a nun 47 years ago, and why? Preview Netflix’s The Keepers
In 10 days, Netflix debuts its seven-party series The Keepers, which explores a young nun’s murder and may be the next Making a Murderer.
Hot Girls Wanted is spinning off a ‘sex and technology’ reality series, Turned On
The Netflix documentary Hot Girls Wanted has inspired a new six-episode documentary reality series, Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On, which debuts in April.
Review: Netflix’s Ultimate Beastmaster
Netflix’s first reality competition series, Ultimate Beastmaster, arrived today. While it owes a lot to NBC’s American Ninja Warrior, it turns out that the genius part of the show’s business strategy turns out to be its best creative move, too. The draw here is not Sylvester Stallone, who appears in the trailer and the introduction, monotoning his way through some scripted lines before evaporating, but rather… continue reading
Mythbusters’ Kari, Tory, and Grant’s new mystery show is a Netflix series
Netflix’s The White Rabbit Project will reunite Mythbusters stars Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara, who will not be busting myths.