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Netflix’s Outside puts several contestants in front of an audience considerably different from the one that normally follows them online. Lacy, however, arrives with one of the largest existing streaming audiences in the cast. The American creator is already well known in gaming circles, particularly among Fortnite and Twitch viewers, but the Sidemen competition gives…
The Sidemen have already tested what happens when internet personalities are locked inside a house with a huge prize pot and an expensive menu of basic comforts. Netflix’s Outside takes that idea somewhere considerably less comfortable. Instead of giving its contestants four walls, beds and a communal living space, the new competition drops 12 creators…
Food Network’s “Halloween Wars” brings former competitors back into the kitchen for Season 16, turning the usual pumpkin, cake and sugar artistry into an all-star test where past experience does not necessarily guarantee safety. Episode 3, titled “Back from the Dead: Misfit Monsters,” makes that especially clear as the remaining teams are separated into direct…
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Season 5 continues its celebration of 20 years of Housewives history by bringing different generations of Bravo personalities into the same room, often with wildly different ideas about how that history should be treated. Episode 8, “Mic Drop, Please,” remains in New York City, where Luann de Lesseps’ Halloween…
Paula Barbosa’s big 90 Day Fiance Tell All Part 3 reveal was that she had major financial and business plans underway in Brazil that Thomas Dintino did not fully know about. The discussion revealed that Paula had put a substantial amount of money toward an apartment in Brazil while also continuing to invest in her…
90 Day Fiance Season 12 closes with Episode 21, Tell All Part 3, bringing the three-part reunion to an end after weeks of uncomfortable questions about trust, children, money and whether some of these marriages can actually survive beyond the 90-day process. The September 27 finale returns to several issues left hanging in Part 2.…
Season 12 of “Love & Marriage: Huntsville” has quickly turned Arionne Curry’s arrival into one of its biggest sources of tension. After years of being discussed without becoming a regular on-camera presence, Arionne is now interacting directly with the people who already have long histories with Martell Holt, and that makes almost every conversation around…
Discovery’s “Deadliest Catch” has spent more than two decades showing how quickly an ordinary day on the Bering Sea can change, but the Season 22 finale carries a different weight. Episode 19, titled “Father, Brother, Sailor, Son,” follows the final stretch of the fishing season aboard the Aleutian Lady before turning its attention to greenhorn…
“Deadliest Catch” has always relied on cameras placed throughout fishing vessels to capture events as they happen, including moments when conditions on the Bering Sea suddenly become dangerous. That created an unusually sensitive question heading into the Season 22 finale, because cameras were filming aboard the Aleutian Lady when 25-year-old deckhand Todd Meadows went overboard…
Logan Smith came into The Traitors: New Blood with a profession that already involves negotiation, persuasion and understanding what people want. The Tennessee realtor is part of the show’s first all-civilian American cast, but his life before reality television already included a growing career in real estate and plans for an important milestone with his…
The Challenge: Cutthroat turns one of Episode 8’s stranger accusations into a full storyline a week later. After Orange loses the Mean Cuisine eating challenge, some members of the team begin questioning CT Tamburello’s effort and wondering whether his friendship with Cara Maria Sorbello influenced the result. By Episode 9, Michele Fitzgerald goes further and…
Cara Maria Sorbello and Tori Deal have survived plenty of uncomfortable relationships on The Challenge, but Season 42 Episode 9 creates a new problem between them that is more about strategy than an old personal feud. Cara is now playing for the rebuilt Gray team, while Tori and Michele Fitzgerald remain on Orange, yet Tori…
