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Competition Series
chat room
Dec. 9, 2023
Squid Game: The Challenge
Winner Mai Whelan Doesn’t Believe in Alliances
“I was more stealthy, getting to know a person instead of a group.”
By
Nic Juarez
and
Alejandra Gularte
overnights
Dec. 7, 2023
Squid Game: The Challenge
Season-Finale Recap: Rock, Paper, Scissors … Shoot!
Without scale and spectacle to lean on, the finale has little more than chance and cruelty left at its disposal.
By
Nicholas Quah
overnights
Dec. 1, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Season-Finale Recap: As Tiers Go By
A pleasant season ends with a laughing, smiling, giddy finale for a laughing, smiling, giddy champion.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Nov. 29, 2023
Squid Game: The Challenge
Recap: Collective Organizing and Its Discontents
The Glass Tile challenge is still haunting me.
By
Nicholas Quah
overnights
Nov. 22, 2023
Squid Game: The Challenge
Series-Premiere Recap: The Ol’ Golden Ticket
Netflix’s newest reality competition is just as shockingly cruel as the Korean hit series it’s adapted from.
By
Nicholas Quah
overnights
Oct. 20, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Chocolate Kisses
Despite chocolate work not
really
being baking, it makes for another good challenge in our “back to basics” season.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 13, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Something to Prove
It’s Bread Week, which means we’re forced to watch bakers sit around waiting for their dough to rise.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 12, 2023
House of Villains
Series-Premiere Recap: Bless This Mess
A who’s who of reality-television royalty is brought together to determine who is the baddest of them all? Sign us up!
By
Brennan Carley
overnights
Oct. 6, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: The Cookie Crumbles
It’s always baffling when bakers rely on techniques they can’t conquer.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Sept. 29, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Season-Premiere Recap: Leave It to Beaver
With a new co-host and a return to basics, our cozy baking show is back and delightful as ever.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Jan. 16, 2023
The Traitors
Season-Finale Recap: Faithful No More
The finale delivers all the suspense, drama, and backstabbing we can handle. Plus, Kate’s incredible sass.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Jan. 15, 2023
The Traitors
Recap: Kate the Great
The traitors are finally starting to stumble.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Jan. 14, 2023
The Traitors
Recap: Barrels of Monkeys
No one seems to care whether Kate is a traitor or faithful anymore — they just want her gone. It’s a losing strategy.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Jan. 13, 2023
The Traitors
Recap: Hitting the Wrong Note
The game is getting good, but no one has any idea how to play.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Sept. 29, 2022
RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K.
Recap: Performance Anxiety
Amazing looks and questionable performances.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Sept. 29, 2022
Survivor
Recap: Beware the Beads
Cody pulls off an impressive move that flips the Vesi power dynamics.
By
Kristen Reid
overnights
Sept. 16, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Season-Premiere Recap: Holding Out for a Hero
Returning to the
Bake Off
tent is like crawling into a comfy, warm oven, one full of lovely people where nothing too bad ever happens.
By
Brian Moylan
choose your own dystopia
June 14, 2022
Netflix Red-light, Green-lit a
Squid Game
Reality Competition Series
The allegory for the class system is feeling less and less allegorical.
By
Jason P. Frank
overnights
Dec. 16, 2021
Survivor
Season-Finale Recap: We Have a Winner
Our new winner is a first in many respects and deserves the praise.
By
Joseph Longo
overnights
Dec. 8, 2021
Survivor
Recap: Finale Predictions
As we head into the finale, let’s see where everyone stands.
By
Joseph Longo
overnights
Nov. 3, 2021
The Challenge: Spies, Lies & Allies
Recap: Sink or Swim
The veterans are united and the pecking order seems impenetrable, leading to a lack of power moves, explosive moments, or anything worth watching.
By
Kyndall Cunningham
innit
Aug. 18, 2021
Drag Race U.K.
Will Have the Franchise’s First Cis Female Queen
The third season premieres on WOW Presents Plus on September 23.
By
Rebecca Alter
competition series
July 22, 2021
Frogger
Competition Show Leaps Onto Peacock
Damon Wayans Jr. hosts a live-action version of the classic arcade game.
By
Cydney Lee
call me jiggly
May 26, 2021
RuPaul’s Drag Race
All Stars
Season 6’s Definition of ‘All-star’ Is a Broad One
Premiering June 24 on Paramount+, the season features multiple second-out queens, multiple
All Stars
repeaters, and so much season-11 representation.
By
Rebecca Alter
90s kids
May 11, 2021
Retreat Into Nostalgia with the
Legends of the Hidden Temple
Reboot, You Baby
And adults are allowed to play.
By
Rebecca Alter
country music
Apr. 30, 2018
You Could Impress Shania Twain Much on Her New Country Music Competition Show
Twain will host USA Network’s
Real Country
with Jake Owen.
By
Jackson McHenry