Best of 2021

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Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model | part 2

Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model brings together the stars, producers, and contestants to discuss the show’s success and confront its legacy of problematic segments. The Netflix documentary series explores how the show, envisioned as changing the modeling industry, ...  Show more

Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model | Part 1

The Netflix documentary series Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model reexamines the TV show’s impact on a nation’s perception of beauty and the troubling situations it put contestants through in the name of entertainment. It offers behind the scenes stories from Tyra Ban ...  Show more

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Nicola Coughlan on Bridgerton and holding Shonda's hands like Oprah!
10/10 (Would Recommend)

For our final episode of 2020, we'd like to take you to Shondaland if we may? Bridgerton is the latest masterpiece to come from Shondaland - Shonda Rhimes' production company. Set in high society London and based on Julia Quinn's best-selling novels, the series arrives on Netflix ...  Show more

Black Mirror Shows Netflix Its Ugly Reflection
Culture Gabfest

This week, Dana Stevens is joined first by Slate senior editor Sam Adams and ICYMI co-host Candice Lim to examine Wes Anderson’s latest film, Asteroid City. Then, the trio discusses why the sixth season of Black Mirror feels so disjointed. Finally, Dana and Candice explore the et ...  Show more

Too old for Disney, too young for The CW | What to Watch
Vox Quick Hits

We’ve been hunkered down at home for more than a year and, for many families, that’s meant finding common ground in viewing habits. This week on What to Watch, Vox film critic Alissa Wilkinson and critic at large Emily VanDerWerff help Stasi, a California mom with two tweens (age ...  Show more

Reality TV | 10. The Circle & the future of reality TV
Spectacle: True Crime

In 2021, it’s not enough to just become famous. To really capitalize on your 15 minutes, you need to tell a story and be authentic. The Circle perfectly captures this shift. It’s like the Real World but ...dystopian? Host Mariah Smith talks to S1 US cast member Chris Sapphire and ...  Show more