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Reality TV

Vox's coverage of reality TV shows, their stars, and their drama.

Netflix’s Perfect Match is a panopticon of sex and humiliation

By Alex Abad-Santos

Peacock’s The Traitors should be your new reality TV obsession

By Alex Abad-Santos

What it means to be a “good” Real Housewife

By Alex Abad-Santos

Real Housewife Jen Shah is sentenced to 6.5 years in prison

By Alex Abad-Santos

How Love Is Blind became a horror show

By Alex Abad-Santos

Selling Sunset is fantastical, absurdist office drama

By Alex Abad-Santos

Love Is Blind gave up on a happily ever after

By Alex Abad-Santos

Why Bachelor stars are suddenly shilling for crypto

By Emily Stewart

Bravo fired one Housewife over racism. What about the others?

By Alex Abad-Santos

Cheer shows how fame changes everything

By Alex Abad-Santos

One Good Thing: The Mole is a relic of early reality TV that still holds up

By Steffan Triplett

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has become a true crime doc

By Alex Abad-Santos

The Bachelor PPP loan drama shows the program was flawed from the start

By Emily Stewart and Li Zhou

Reality TV used to be about getting famous. 90 Day Fiancé is about the American dream.

By Alissa Wilkinson

The sleazy thrills of Temptation Island

By Melinda Fakuade

A former Bachelor star came out as gay. The announcement was as messy as his season.

By Emily Stewart

The Bachelor’s messy, uneven, and long-overdue reckoning with racism, explained

By Li Zhou

5 winners and 2 losers from The Bachelorette’s “bubble” season premiere

By Li Zhou, Emily Stewart, and 1 more
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How reality TV shows cast the right people

By Phil Edwards

How The Bachelor became a launchpad for influencers

By Arielle Duhaime-Ross and Byrd Pinkerton

How the Real Housewives built cable TV’s biggest fandom

By Rebecca Jennings

Breaking down The Bachelorette’s take on slut-shaming, religion and duplicitous boyfriends

By Li Zhou, Emily Stewart, and 2 more

Real Housewives is a product placement paradise. But fans say the series recently went too far.

By Angelica Florio

In its 37th season, Survivor is still capable of surprising even its hardcore fans

By Karen Han

The Real Housewives of New York City boat ride from hell was peak Real Housewives

By Alex Abad-Santos

What it’s like being the only black contestant on The Bachelor

By Lindsay Smith

After 33 seasons, ABC's Bachelor franchise casts its first black Bachelorette

By Caroline Framke

The Bachelor isn’t a love story — it’s a comedy

By Lily Sparks

20 seasons in, The Bachelor is at its best because the women are finally in on the joke

By Alex Abad-Santos

31 seasons in, Survivor can still produce mind-boggling reality television

By Caroline Framke

The Bachelorette is sexist. And it needs to go.

By Kelsey McKinney