The Repair Shop—a BBC series that’s available via Netflix, and on which objects are restored—is charming, warm, and set in a barn. In other words, it’s perfect.
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The Circle turns social media into reality TV: a review of Netflix’s U.S. version
Watching people text each other and judge the reactions is occasionally fascinating, sometimes boring, and frighteningly revealing about how we try to connect with each other.
Chef’s Line and Interior Design Masters: reviews of two competitions on Netflix
Australia’s cooking competition The Chef’s Line is the best cooking competition on Netflix now, while Interior Design Masters didn’t live up to its potential.
Netflix’s Prank Encounters is neither scary nor funny, just embarrassing and boring
The Gaten Matarazzo-hosted prank show is scary for all the wrong reasons, and far more tedious than terrifying.
Rhythm + Flow, Netflix’s hip-hop competition, which ends today, sure ‘ain’t The Voice’
“This ain’t The Voice, motherfuckers,” Snoop Dogg said on the premiere of Netflix’s Rhythm and Flow, which released its final three episodes today.
Review: Hyperdrive sends drivers and their cars on an insane obstacle course
Netflix’s new competition series is a thrill to watch, like a reality TV version of Fast & Furious on a stunning obstacle course.
Reviews: Netflix’s Diagnosis and TNT’s Chasing the Cure, which crowdsource answers to medical mysteries
Neither Diagnosis nor Chasing the Cure are Yahoo Answers: The TV Show, thankfully, but only one is a compelling reality television show.
Blown Away brings glass blowing to Netflix without the usual reality TV tropes
The reality TV competition Blown Away lacks what other reality TV competitions have, for better and for worse.
Hurry up and watch Slow TV before it leaves Netflix
There are 50 hours and 41 minutes of Norwegian slow TV shows on Netflix, including salmon fishing, knitting, and the train ride that kicked off the phenomenon.
Why Instant Hotel season 2 was disappointing
The second season didn’t live up to the first, thanks to a number of changes that Instant Hotel made.
Secrets of Scare Tactics, the horror/prank show that’s now on Netflix, uncensored
The creator of the hidden camera horror/prank reality show discusses whether the show will return, the surprising way Scare Tactics is cast, how a lawsuit affected the production, and much more.
Instant Hotel and Stay Here: two addictive but very different reality shows
Instant Hotel season 2 is on Netflix starting today. It’s a lot of light but crazy fun drama.
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.