![]() Kelz himself becomes interested in Francesca, who dumps him for Harry - which leads to a promising confrontation where Kelz explains he’s in a different league. “And now she's house trained you to sit.” “You're like a puppy, right?” he explains. Kelz, a hot football player who believes pursuing women gives them the upper hand, admonishes Harry when he kisses Francesca. The group’s opprobrium feels vague and impersonal.Īs might be obvious to any habitual watcher of the Bachelor franchise, sometimes the most interesting reality drama occurs among the men, who often get into ego-contest hijinks when left to their own devices. ![]() The stakes simply aren’t high enough, because there’s no real consequence beyond the slight shrinkage of the prize money - no being voted off the island. They lie about it, and it’s supposed to be suspenseful to see them attempt to keep it secret, but it’s not. When the group turns against Francesca and the friend who sticks up for her, sorority girl Haley, the two women (spoiler alert) decide to kiss to take revenge on the group. The pair must confess to the group that they kissed, thus chipping away at the prize money, and Francesca gets upset because Harry tells everyone she kissed him first. ![]() When we first meet Harry, he tells us he has a “boyfriend penis,” meaning he’s a kind of penile Goldilocks, neither too big nor too small - just right to entice a woman into becoming his girlfriend. The first inklings of discord come when the aforementioned Francesca and a tall twentysomething Australian named Harry break the rules by kissing. Except, over the course of eight episodes, it never really pays off. It’s a premise that seems like the perfect setup to create interesting alliances or inspire petty squabbles, what with all the anxiety and pent-up pressure. That is, until Lana breaks the news that they aren’t allowed to have sex. (He also gives us crucial personal information, such as the claim that his penis photographs well next to an air freshener can.) There’s also Francesca, an Instagram model with hundreds of thousands of followers who tells us she doesn’t have to work hard to get guys, and Matthew, who calls himself a deep thinker because he questions monogamy.Īs far as dating shows go, the cast is standard-issue Instagram-hot and fun to watch as they bask in their sexy paradise. Some of the cast standouts are Sharron (my favorite), a black personal trainer who calls himself a feminist but also admits to taking women’s studies classes to help him attract women. Too Hot to Handle begins with the contestants arriving at their tropical paradise and introducing themselves in confessionals as they mingle and size each other up. But unfortunately, the rules of the game get in the way of any real fun, and the show never reaches the heights of petty drama or outrageousness - or, for that matter, the emotional depth - of truly good-bad reality television.Īs with Love Is Blind, this show’s initial episodes setting up the gambit and introducing us to the characters are the best part. What could be more timely than a dating show with absolutely no sex, when we’re all social-distancing and single people can’t (physically) date or hook up? Too Hot to Handle can even be looked at as somewhat service-y softcore porn in these dire times - with its 10 hot castmates romping around barely clothed. An Alexa-like cone-shaped device named Lana polices their behavior, and they also wear watches that can greenlight a relationship and allow a couple to kiss. Contestants who make it to the end get to split a $100,000 prize, but until then, the pot gets smaller every time one of them kisses without approval. Too Hot to Handle, the streaming giant’s latest entry, looks and talks more like Love Island, the UK dating show where a group of hot straight people are cloistered in a luxurious vacation house together and try out different couplings before ending up together (or not).Įxcept here - plot twist - contestants can’t have sex, or even kiss, because they have to focus on getting to know each other. That show is a kind of 90 Day Fiancé with a twist, in which contestants aren’t allowed to see each other before getting engaged, and they decide whether to actually get married (or not) at the end. Netflix has recently ventured into manufacturing shticky and meme-friendly dating reality shows, like the ( ridiculous) runaway hit Love Is Blind. Maybe because the best iterations of the genre often fall under the so-bad-it’s-good category, it’s hard to pin down the exact combination of good and bad required to make the greatest shows pop. There’s something ineffable about great reality television.
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