Top Chef 20 – reality blurred

Two people hold a small chalkboard that lists pub foods: Fish & Chips, Bangers & Mash, Steak & Ale Pie, Scotch Egg, Sunday Roast, Shepherd's Pre

Top Chef’s pub crawl became Top Chef Catering yet again, alas

Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons took the Top Chef World All Stars cast on a pub crawl—and then started piling on the twists. A recap of episode 3.

A chef prepares food on a table with cut-up jackfruit pieces and a box of Ritz crackers

Top Chef World All Stars is struggling to ignite. But why?

I’m glad to have Top Chef back, but kind of like its second eliminated chef, it’s not yet doing the work that we know it’s capable of doing.

Four chefs run into a kitchen through a door in a wall that looks like a giant clock face

Top Chef 20’s global all-stars stunned the judges—and served them crap

Top Chef 20 World All Stars has gathered a cast of winners and runners-up from around the world to compete in London, where the judges got served literal crap.

about reality blurred

Welcome! I’m Andy Dehnart, a writer who obsessively and critically covers reality TV, focusing on how it’s made and what it means.

I created reality blurred 22 years ago as a place to collect interesting links I found. Today, I review and recommend reality shows, documentaries, and nonfiction entertainment; analyze news and report from behind the scenes; and interview people who create and star in reality TV shows. You'll also find other people's insightful takes on reality TV in these pages, too.

I believe pop culture can both entertain and affect us, and so reality blurred's goal is to amplify the best and hold the worst accountable. In other words, I’m here to call it out when it sucks and celebrate it when it’s amazing. Let’s talk about it together!