What Reality TV Says About Us

The Waves

May 19, 2022 5:00 AM

A Reality Dating Show’s Visit to Ukraine Tests the Limits of the Form

Julia Sirmons

April 28, 2022 2:25 PM

Netflix’s Newest No. 1 Is an Insult to Its Own Subject

Cleo Levin

March 31, 2022 5:54 PM

Love Is Blind Tweaked Its Premise in Season 2—and It Paid Off

Ilana Kaplan

March 07, 2022 4:32 PM

You’re Watching the Wrong Love Is Blind

Allegra Frank

Feb 25, 2022 10:00 PM

How Cheer Handled One of Reality TV’s Biggest Controversies

Allegra Frank

Jan 20, 2022 3:54 PM

Omicron Comes for The Bachelorette

Heather Schwedel

Dec 22, 2021 2:56 PM

Tiger King 2 Shows True Crime at Its Worst

Laura Miller

Nov 20, 2021 9:30 AM

Who Owns Queer Aesthetics?

Outward

Nov 17, 2021 6:05 PM

The Bachelor’s Relationship to Influencers Has Never Been More Twisted

Rachelle Hampton

Nov 15, 2021 2:18 PM

The Real Housewives of Social Media

ICYMI

Nov 03, 2021 5:00 AM

Below Deck’s Chef Rachel, of “Eat My Cooter” Fame, Tells Us What the Show—and Yachting—Is Really Like

The Waves

Oct 21, 2021 5:00 AM

How An Online Gang of Twenty-somethings Hijacked Reality TV’s Best Show

Emma Murphy

Aug 24, 2021 4:37 PM

How Mike White’s Survivor Season Set the Stage for The White Lotus

Andrew Bundy

Aug 19, 2021 5:02 PM

Have We Found the Feminist Dating Show?

The Waves

Aug 05, 2021 6:00 AM

Wait a Minute. They Can’t Say “F—boy” on Fboy Island?

Allegra Frank

July 29, 2021 2:44 PM

The Best Real Housewife of Beverly Hills Barely Knows She’s on TV

Daniel Schroeder

July 22, 2021 1:19 PM

I’m a Furry. Netflix’s Sexy Beasts Misses the Entire Point of Dressing Up Like an Animal.

Riley Black

July 22, 2021 12:58 PM

We Know What the Kardashians Did Wrong. What Did They Do Right?

The Waves

June 10, 2021 6:30 AM

The Kardashians’ Final Season Makes Them Look Like Olds

Rachelle Hampton and Daniel Schroeder

June 03, 2021 12:08 PM