Reality Television

September 9, 2020

How ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Changed Everything

This week, the Kardashian-Jenner family announced that after 20 seasons, their namesake reality TV show, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” would come to an end in […]
September 3, 2020

‘Black Love’ Keeps It Simple: Honesty, not Antics

In an episode from 2018, the actor Glynn Turman sat on a sofa with his arm draped affectionately around his wife, Jo-An, as the two recounted […]
August 28, 2020

The 2020 Party Conventions Gave New Meaning to Political Theater

The largely virtual format of the Republican and Democratic national conventions meant that even more than usual, the messages were embedded within the visual presentation. Here […]
July 20, 2020

‘Total Bellas’ Refuse to Be Knocked Out by Quarantine

When Nikki and Brie Bella, twin sisters who are also reality stars and recently retired WWE champions, found out they were both pregnant last November, they […]
March 24, 2020

When Fashion TV Becomes an Anthropological Treasure

There is no live fashion to look at now. No shows; no red carpets; not really any street style. The cruise collections that normally take place […]
March 19, 2020

Policeman. Reality Star. Recent Ex-Boyfriend.

For most of the last two years, Sean Larkin has worked six days a week — four days in the gang unit of the Tulsa, Okla., […]
March 13, 2020

Behind the ‘Love Is Blind’ Wall

It’s hard to win over fans on a romantic reality show. But Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton did. Ms. Speed, 34, a content creator, and Mr. […]
January 30, 2020

7 Questions With Jazz Jennings of TLC’s ‘I Am Jazz’

Jazz Jennings has been in the spotlight since 2007, when she was 6 and appeared on the ABC News program “20/20.” Wearing a dress, she opened […]
January 2, 2019

domains: Super-Sorter Marie Kondo Now Has a Reality Show

On Netflix, you can watch other people freak out about “tidying up” for 2019.
January 26, 2018

Encounters: Lisa Vanderpump of ‘Real Housewives’ Sips Her Tea. And Spills Some, Too.

Advertisement Lisa Vanderpump doesn’t merely walk. She strides, almost gallops. She did so one afternoon through the lobby of the Plaza Hotel in Midtown Manhattan (staying […]