Too Hot to Handle
Netflix | Release Date: April 17, 2020
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
5
Negative:
6

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
ColliderPerri NemiroffApr 17, 2020
Season 1 Review: Yes, at times laughs are coming at the contestant’s expense and some of the behavior featured on the show is downright absurd, but it’s all mighty entertaining and there’s a very effective blend of that absurdity and also some legitimate heart. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Kathryn VanArendonkApr 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. Read full review
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