'Too Hot To Handle' is the weirdly based reality TV show we need

Media regularly impacts culture and culture regularly dances with politics, and I have to say, while I don’t write about culture often, I do thoroughly enjoy discussing it, and I am thrilled to be writing on this topic specifically.

Personally, I’ve never been big into reality TV. I always thought you had to be dumb to enjoy it. However, I’m not afraid to admit when I’m wrong. I recently finished the latest season of one of my favorite shows, and it’s one I’ve contemplated writing about for a while. When I first discovered the show, I was scrolling through Netflix, trying to find something to watch when I came across the Netflix original series ‘Too Hot To Handle.’ Watching the trailer, I understood that it was about extremely attractive people not having sex and I thought, “relatable.”

I decided to hate watch an episode to make fun of the stupid attractive people, and then, three days later, I had accidentally finished the entire season. What I realized was ‘Too Hot To Handle’ was too good to hate. In fact, I loved it.

In ten one-hour-long episodes, I had watched a group of people who regularly used others for their own selfish desires turn into people who were actually worthy of love, both from themselves and from others. These are people who have to learn to connect without sex, heavy petting, or kissing–and every time they break one of these rules, thousands of dollars gets deducted from a grand prize that one individual or couple will win at the end of the season. They go through workshops and tests to breakdown walls and to learn to be better partners and people in general.

The show is extremely sexual and not one I recommend watching with the family, but it is a good show that is making a positive impact on society by helping people not just do better for themselves, but genuinely want to do better for themselves and for others. The best part of the show to me is that you watch these people start off as douchebags and by the end of it, even if they aren’t in a committed relationship that you’ve been rooting for, you feel good knowing that they are leaving as people who have changed for the better. This is literally all that I want in a reality TV show, and due to this, I absolutely recommend it as a show for anyone who loves or hates reality TV.