Selling Sunset season 5

These days when you turn on Netflix to scope out its most popular series, there's about a 50/50 chance you're going to see some sort of reality show at the ...

You will not see reality TV programming dominating really any of Netflix’s main rivals like HBO Max, Hulu, Apple TV Plus, Disney Plus, Paramount Plus or Amazon Prime. Not that no reality content exists there, but it’s not nearly at this level, and the top shows all these places are almost always scripted series. Looking at the numbers in the US, some sort of reality or true crime-based series was the #1 show on Netflix for 14 out of the last 23 days. Are any of these shows…good? I guess that’s more a debate about the concept of reality TV in general, something we litigated like 15 years ago at this point, but it does set Netflix apart from its rivals in arguably a bad way.