5 Reality TV Shows Coming to Netflix Next Year
We promise they'll be less formulaic than Red Notice...
First BASE
Get ready for a high-stakes, high-elevation dating show unlike anything you’ve seen before. Our hot singles meet atop a windswept spire to see if they have the spark necessary to ascend to relationship heaven. But, there’s a catch. If they decide to pair up, they get to descend in the elevator and go on a date, but if the chemistry fizzles they’ll have to BASE jump down. Imagine MTV’s Next but with wing suits.
Battle of the Band
Witness one indie band’s existential crisis unfold in real time as the same group of musicians repeatedly changes names, genres, and band members in a months long performative identity crisis. Watch alt rock Lonely Pony become ska band Air Craft Terrier, lose the horn section and become grungy Mostly Mulch, drop to a duo and become house DJs Tropical Deadlift, before the rival frontmen of Vacant Yacht (the vanguard of post yacht rock revival) and Trickle Down Explosives (TDE) duke it out for supremacy of the band that everyone else has grown tired of. You’ve never seen so many mandolins drunkenly smashed in such dramatic fashion.
Too Much Snot to Handle.
10 hot singles are summoned to an island, thinking they’ll get to enjoy some steamy dating and hot tub hookups only to find out they’ve arrived doing peak allergy season. Will Allie be the Allegra that decongests Danny’s love life or will Chad be the Claritin that soothes Samantha’s seasonal suffering? This season the sexual tension is as high as the pollen count.
Alone With No Phone
Every season we drop 12 brave contestants in a picturesque new location like the Yucatan, St Barts, Venice, or basically anywhere they’d shoot a season of The White Lotus. There, they’ll be stranded and have to survive as long as possible without a cell phone. Tune in to see them stretch to their breaking point as they forage for food without being able to document it on Instagram, try to find shelter for the night without being able to compare reviews of accommodations on TripAdvisor first, and agonize over how to entertain themselves without scrolling TikTok for hours. You’ve never seen physical discomfort or psychological torture quite like this. To be fair, even if you watch this you won’t technically see any of it since you’ll be scrolling on your phone the entire time.
Love is Kind.
After all of the screaming, crying, and backstabbing we’ve tried on our other shows, we thought we’d try a dating show where the contestants have to be nice to each other, no catty or mean behavior allowed. Our algorithm has estimated that this show will be cancelled after sixty seconds. The viewership metrics don’t lie, people.
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