There exists a battle for the audience’s attention between big-name streaming services, primetime TV channels and cable TV providers. If you are wondering where to start your next binge-watch session, this is perhaps not the space to be in for you. Here is a list of the latest and lousiest entertainment offerings, including dating with casual sex and matchmaking.
FBoy Island On HBO Max
The makers of FBoy Island and some viewers might claim that it is a binge-worthy show, but we found it to be somewhat cringeworthy. The dating series uses 24 youngsters with assorted application-based careers in a bid to match them with any of the three girls who are single. The show has a twist: half of those dues are in the show for money, whereas the other half are seeking love as well. In the event the girl picks one of those romantic guys, he would get $1,00,000 as prize money. If she chooses one of those F-boys, then he must choose between the full prize or that girl and $50,000 instead.
The dating series is only good enough for viewers who seek TikTok level entertainment. It has handsome youngsters in necklaces with puka shells who try to exploit another person’s innocence and/or find love. Host Nicole Rene Glaser is among the few good things about this dating show, as she uses her comedic skills exceedingly well. Much of the fun element in the show comes from Nikki Glaser explaining her jokes as well as contemptibly foolish and self-indulgent youngsters trying to trick girls. Over-produced and silly all the way, the show on dating hardly resembles real life.
Do you like to watch simpletons trying to exploit women? If so, it is perhaps worth watching for you. If not, you would rather skip the show.
Cooking With Paris
In The Simple Life, Paris Hilton and her best friend Nicole Richie shared accommodation with an agricultural family for some days to explore a new way of life. The main attraction of that show was seeing the two friends failing spectacularly to do simple tasks. Their failures created many funny moments in many parts of The Simple Life. It was a successful piece of entertainment that inspired many other reality TV shows that revolved around rich individuals.
With this cooking show, Netflix tries to succeed with a premise similar to the idea of The Simple Life. With Paris Hilton in designer clothing and talking energetically about her house, the show attempts to convince the audience that the star has not grown a lot over the years. Hilton may appear slightly ridiculous as she makes marshmallows in her evening gown, but the show is a cautiously curated look at the media personality.
Does Hilton visit Gelson’s supermarket in a gown decorated with fake jewels? It is worth arguing that she does. Has the celebrity spent years not knowing how a microwave oven functions? It is arguable that she perhaps has not lived that life. Here, Hilton is attempting to demonstrate two sides of those arguments. Hilton knows that people enjoy watching her as she fumbles around the kitchen, but the joke is on the audience. She perhaps got millions or more from Netflix for the show. On the other hand, as part of the audience, we get to watch a puerile piece of entertainment and waste a lot of our time in life.
Hilton is a clever person when she should be, but she is not like that for a large part of this show. Hilton wears her stilettos, uses her baby-like voice and nearly cuts off her finger as she dices potatoes.
The show has many of Hilton’s fans and socialite friends who act as her assistant chefs, as they talk about their friendships with her. Some of those cast members are Nikki Glaser, Kim Kardashian, and Saweetie. The tastiest portion of the reality show is the part where the stories have precedence over the cooking part.
As with Paris Hilton’s food, the show has little nutritional value, so to speak. Do not look forward to learning how to prepare food from the reality show. If you wish to learn it, you would rather like to watch a how-to video or two on YouTube. There is a better, more sensible reason to watch it: to just kill time.
Sexy Beasts
It has not been long since Netflix started to stream Sexy Beasts, but it has already earned the reputation of being the streaming service’s strangest dating show. The reality show has sexually aroused single characters as they seek true love in prosthetics. It is like watching The Dating Game in a nightmarish form. The characters in the reality show wear masks that resemble animals such as mice, owls, and foxes. Many of them look like satanic demons, humanoid giant pandas or anthropomorphic dinosaurs. It has elements reminiscent of Temptation Island, Toxic Avenger, and Glow Up.
The show even tries to teach us that we should never judge the value of a person according to their outward appearance. In that sense, it is a bit like Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. As for a piece of entertainment, though, it is an epic failure on all counts. Many contestants in the reality show have personalities formed on the basis of looks. However, their potential partners assume that a likely match would be someone hot or attractive. Their assumption turns out to be right, and there is no risk in it. The real fun comes when a contestant shows their relief after that horny person in a panda mask does not choose them.
The show is for a person who derives pleasure from watching anonymous people going through uncomfortable situations. Everyone else would like to skip the show. Do you wish to spend your time in a better way? If so, try spending it reading a book, volunteering, sweating it out on the treadmill, or even ogling good-looking folks. There is an interesting premise in this show, too, but it becomes boring and negative pretty quickly.