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By Grant Sharples
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tv
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By Jim Vorel
March 7, 2023 | 1:43pm
tv
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By Katie Randall
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music
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April 15, 2022 | 11:36am
tv
Netflix’s
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By Daniel Dockery
February 25, 2022 | 12:23pm
comedy
The Joy Of Cringe: When Bad Comedy Makes Good Reality Television
By Norman Quarrinton
February 17, 2022 | 9:55pm
music
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By Tom Lanham
February 4, 2022 | 2:45pm
games
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November 23, 2021 | 1:12pm
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Possession
and
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: A Study on the Horrific Making of Men
By Lex Briscuso
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travel
Atlanta's Illuminarium Experience Is
WILD
By Josh Jackson
August 13, 2021 | 1:30pm
tv
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Faking It
and
Sweet/Vicious
Behind
By Alexis Gunderson
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games
Oculus Quest 2 Is a Great Escape for the Quarantine Blues
By Josh Jackson
December 4, 2020 | 11:45am
tv
Why Netflix’s
Selling Sunset
Is America in a Nutshell
By Lizzie Manno
August 27, 2020 | 10:02am
tv
What to Watch on Netflix
By Josh Jackson and Paste Staff
February 7, 2020 | 9:40pm
tv
Why Netflix’s
The Circle
Is the Secretly Wholesome Reality Series That 2020 Needs
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 27, 2020 | 1:56pm
music
Daily Dose: Patio, "Reality State"
By Amanda Gersten
December 17, 2019 | 3:23pm
tv
Man vs. Bear
Makes the Case that Bears, Not People, Should Populate Reality TV
By Jacob Oller
December 3, 2019 | 8:50am
tv
Why
For All Mankind
Is an Alternate Reality that Might Be Better Than Ours, in the Long Run
By Liz Shannon Miller
November 6, 2019 | 9:30am
tv
Why Does Netflix's
Tidying Up with Marie Kondo
Provoke Such Strong Reactions?
By Matt Brennan
February 6, 2019 | 10:50am
tv
The Masked Singer
,
Temptation Island
, and the Return of Early 2000s Reality TV
By LaToya Ferguson
January 23, 2019 | 9:00am
tv
5 Reasons
Dancing with the Stars: Juniors
Will Win Over the Franchise's Fans and Skeptics
By Alexis Gunderson
October 8, 2018 | 11:15am
music
St. Paul & The Broken Bones Merge Fiction and Reality
By Ellen Johnson
September 12, 2018 | 10:40am
tv
The Relatable Celebreality of Ashlee Simpson
By LaToya Ferguson
September 6, 2018 | 2:00pm
tv
It Ain't Miss America: A Former Pageant Contestant Compares Real Life to Reality TV
By Keri Lumm
September 6, 2018 | 12:00pm
tv
Omarosa, Trump, and the Strange Career of the Reality TV Villain
By Matt Brennan
August 17, 2018 | 9:45am
movies
Sorry to Bother You
Understands Our Surreal Reality
By Kenneth Lowe
August 17, 2018 | 9:03am
books
Why Virtual Reality Is the Future of
Dungeons & Dragons
By David M. Ewalt
August 6, 2018 | 4:52pm
tv
With
The Deed
, New Orleans' Sidney Torres Finds His Next Act
By Matt Brennan
July 10, 2018 | 10:00am
tv
Glow Up: On
Queer Eye
, Capitalism and Gay Identity
By Matt Brennan
June 18, 2018 | 1:30pm
tv
American Ninja Warrior
Is Building a Reality TV Legacy on the Belief in Humanity’s Ability to Be Excellent
By Alexis Gunderson
June 13, 2018 | 10:00am
music
Daily Dose: Nation of Language, "Reality"
By Lizzie Manno
May 8, 2018 | 3:24pm
tv
How
The Terror
, Like Reality TV, Dissects Toxic Masculinity
By Jacob Oller
May 7, 2018 | 10:00am
tv
Netflix's
Nailed It
Is the Anti-
Great British Baking Show
By Jacob Oller
March 12, 2018 | 11:00am
politics
GOP Senator Ron Johnson Accused the FBI of Possibly Being Run by a "Secret Society," Then Got Dunked on by Reality
By Jacob Weindling
January 25, 2018 | 2:10pm
games
Unreal: How a
Survivor
Parody Explores the Artificiality of Games and Reality TV
By Dante Douglas
January 16, 2018 | 10:30am
tv
Mythbusters
Is Back, and It Still Scratches the Same Scientific Itch
By Jacob Oller
November 14, 2017 | 9:00am
tv
Finding Escobar's Millions
Doesn't Dig Deep Enough Into the Influence of Its Infamous Subject
By Amy Glynn
November 9, 2017 | 10:00am
politics
Dick Durbin Is the Latest Democrat to Deny Reality and Call for More Unpopular Centrism
By Jacob Weindling
October 17, 2017 | 2:30pm
drink
This Scotch Comes with Virtual Reality
By Jim Sabataso
August 22, 2017 | 9:56am
politics
Of Course Trump Stared Directly Into the Eclipse
By Jason Rhode
August 22, 2017 | 9:00am
politics
The Prison of Our Skulls: Donald Trump and the Unmaking of Reality
By Jared Sexton
August 3, 2017 | 1:30pm
tv
How
America’s Next Top Model
Prepared Me for Trump's Win
By Stephanie Ashe
July 20, 2017 | 10:00am
comedy
I Think I'm the Only One Who Came on This Reality Show to Make Friends
By Bob Vulfov
July 14, 2017 | 3:15pm
tv
How
The Great British Baking Show
Challenges Reality TV's Cult of Personality
By Manuel Betancourt
July 6, 2017 | 12:00pm
tv
What the Heck Is
Battle of the Network Stars
, You Ask?
Paste
Has Your Answer
By Andrea Reiher
June 29, 2017 | 12:00pm
science
Modern Book Burning: When Fiction Becomes Fact, Reality Becomes Abstract
By Margo Pierce
May 19, 2017 | 10:30am
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