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.
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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.
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
A review of the Netflix and BBC show The Big Family Cooking Showdown, which will invite you in from the cold, and wrap you in a warm blanket of food and family.