Reality TV

The staff writer picks three pioneering entries to the genre. “If you hate reality television,” she says, “I’m trying to talk to you.”

The rules governing everything from “Big Brother” to “The Real Housewives” started three decades ago, with a radical experiment on MTV.

Lawsuits and the labor movement come to reality TV, by way of the Netflix hit “Love Is Blind.”

Lawsuits and the labor movement come to reality TV, by way of the Netflix hit. Plus, Ilana Glazer’s buddy movie tackles the realities of pregnancy, motherhood, and friendship.

Through an uncanny hybrid of access journalism and fourth-wall breaking, the comedian created an HBO series that was impossible to look away from.

The new Hulu documentary charts the rise of one of the earliest reality-TV stars and the ethically queasy production choices that cemented his fame—but it’s elevated by its interest in what came afterward.

The actor, author, cabaret performer, and host of the hit reality series “The Traitors” says, “I think American people, especially, are slightly ashamed of abandon.”

The Nathan Fielder–Emma Stone series is about whose predictions about the future go unchallenged and whose fates are decided as consequence.

More than a hundred and sixty reality stars descended on Las Vegas, for BravoCon, where they were pulled apart by their harshest critics, who also happen to be their most diehard fans.

Since the show’s rise during the Great Recession, it has fulfilled a pedagogical role in women’s media. The lesson it imparts is: you better work, bitch.

He was sweeter than Howard Stern, realer than Phil Donahue. His coolness gave his show its plausible deniability.

The judge of “The Great British Bake Off” offers thoughts on British food and British politics, plus a word about the “Mexican Week” episode.

Nannies will be given their own designer wardrobes. But make no mistake: they will still not be shown on camera.

A trompe-l’oeil dessert competition and a showcase for Japanese toddlers milk drama from the thinnest of conceits, with varied results.

In the Hulu reality series, Charli and Dixie D’Amelio live in a constant state of fear, overwhelmed by social-media hate and plagued by stress-induced psychosomatic pains.

In Netflix’s period drama, the racial element was cannily calibrated; in the reality-TV series, it threw the love story off course.

The former President said that the “most amazing” aspect of his new show would be the number of networks broadcasting it.

“Anna Karenina Is . . . the Bachelorette,” “Keeping Up with the Karamazovs,” and other shows you can’t watch but wish you could.

Netflix’s new relative of “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” in which two organizing influencers transform Khloé Kardashian’s garage and regular families’ clutter, feels like just another marketing channel.

The Bravo show is about the Indian-American community unto itself, not about its desire to assimilate.