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Positive:
2
Mixed:
5
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Critic Reviews
Apr 16, 2020
Season 1 Review:
I can’t say whether anyone comes out of this show a better person, as Lana is supposedly teaching them to be. But I can say it’s a fantastic reality-show mechanism for making me weirdly fond of these goobers. ... Too Hot to Handle is too silly and too messy — and too weirdly nice by the end — to not be appealing.
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The IndependentJan 19, 2022
Season 3 Review:
Season three delivers sufficient scandal, a shock shot at redemption, and even a surprise love story. But not everyone is destined for a happy ending this time. Since most of the action is driven by a handful of islanders, the others mostly sip on tropical cocktails and work on their tans.
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iDec 3, 2021
Apr 17, 2020
Season 1 Review:
By the time you finally learn a contestant’s backstory in the second half of the show—that they come from a broken home, or they’ve been cheated on, or they’re a single mother—you’re already too steeped in toxicity and boredom to care. It’s unfortunate that despite the arsenal of weapons at the producers’ disposal (which include adding new contestants to test connections, tempting private suites, and watches that light up when contestants are allowed to kiss) the show never manages to be as scintillating or as meaningful as it claims to be.
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Apr 17, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The show’s half-hearted effort to mock dating show clichés doesn’t blend too well with its half-hearted purpose, to supposedly help the good-looking narcissists achieve personal growth and build deeper relationships. ... A fairly witless excursion, with a batch of characters who seem like they were created in a reality show writers’ room.
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Apr 16, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Too Hot is a thoroughly awful show—a social experiment with a flimsy premise that fails to either yield remarkable results or create interesting characters. But what its makers couldn’t have known during production is that it’s also weirdly relevant in the time of coronavirus.
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Apr 16, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The whole tone of Too Hot to Handle, especially, involves goofing on the participants in wry voiceover, leveraging everything we've come to know about such characters from "The Bachelor," "Temptation Island" and every other dating show spun out of those molds. ... While they might be easy on the eyes, to use a term as old as "hanky panky," what comes out of their mouths can be torture to the ears, and the show seems to dislike them every bit as much as the audience is supposed to.
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Apr 17, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Too Hot to Handle is terrible—shoddily made and deeply uninteresting. The contestants are all bores, all clearly out to boost their influencer clout, and are awful at the game of reality show pretending. ... This is sub-basement reality TV, hastily made with the worst kind of cynicism—the one that assumes us dumdums will gulp down whatever slop we’re fed.
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