Year in review

Take a walk with me through some of the reality TV show highlights—and hilarious lowlights—of 2022!

My picks for the best reality shows and documentary series that aired in 2022, including both new and returning series.

As the year winds down, I took a stroll through the archives, and picked out 21 stories that stood out to me from 2021, from Survivor and Big Brother to Top Chef and The Real World Homecoming.

Reality Blurred TV critic Andy Dehnart’s picks for the best reality shows and documentary series that aired in 2021, including both new and returning series.

Andy Dehnart’s favorite reality TV and documentary reality shows of 2020, including honorable mentions for Love is Blind and Tiger King, and high praise for Taste the Nation, Tough As Nails, We’re Here, Making the Cut, and other broadcast, streaming, and cable reality TV.

Leading the list of the best reality TV shows of the 2010s is The Great British Baking Show, which replaced conflict and negativity with positivity, humor, and puns.

Andy Dehnart’s selection of outstanding reality TV and documentary reality shows from 2019.