Netflix's new three-part series Reality Check lifts the lid on America's Next Top Model NetflixReality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model features contributions from a series of former Top Model contestants, as well as judges, including Tyra Banks herself, reflecting on some of the show’s biggest controversies. Since Reality Check premiered on Monday, many critics have said it will make for essential viewing for those who enjoyed America’s Next Top Model during its original run, although many also questioned just how probing it is as a documentary. AdvertisementA three-star review in The Guardian said that Tyra “comes across as a real piece of work” in Reality Check, but laments that the documentary does the former Top Model contestants a “disservice by persistently framing Top Model as a product of its time”. “For a show about beauty, Top Model was always ugly – but Reality Check’s conclusions are only skin deep,” they opined. In The Telegraph’s four-star review, it’s similarly pointed out that Reality Check is not “exactly an exposé, because we could all see that it was a hot mess”.

Source: Huffington Post February 16, 2026 13:20 UTC