Best reality shows on Netflix right now (2020)

There’s nothing quite as dramatic as reality television, and when it comes to streaming services, Netflix reality shows are on another level.

Reality TV allows people to fantasize about a life different from there’s, providing an escape into someone else’s world. This genre can have your jaw dropped in shock one minute, and make you feel genuine empathy the next. An enormous part of the entertainment industry, whether it’s a dating competition, a baking challenge, a survival game, or people trying to flip a house, people can’t seem to get a big enough dose of reality.

If you love reality television but have already binged your favorites over and over again, we’ve compiled a list of 15 shows that you might want to check out next time you’re looking for something to watch on Netflix.

1. The Circle

The Circle is the ultimate social media competition. Isolated in their own apartments, contestants can only communicate with each other via a computer program resembling a social media app. Contestants are able to present different identities to the others to win votes. Whoever has the most votes at the end of each round has the power to “block” one contestant from the circle, eliminating them from the game.

2. Glow Up

This British reality series is a competition designed to find the next great makeup artist. The contestants take part in weekly challenges to progress through the contest, which is judged by industry professionals and other guest stars. If you love watching makeup tutorials, you have to check it out!

3. Selling Sunset

Selling Sunset revolves around the high-end residential properties in Los Angeles marketed by the Oppenheim Group’s real estate brokerage firm and the agents that work there. As the agents navigate their personal and professional lives, they must also work to sell multi-million dollar listings.

4. Interior Design Masters

Each week on Interior Design Masters, a different challenge is set for a group of interior designers hoping to secure a commercial contract to design a bar at one of London’s hotels. The contestants must redesign commercial spaces, from shops to restaurants and salons, as well as meeting their client’s expectations.

5. Rhythm + Flow

Hosted and judged by hip hop artists Cardi B, Chance the Rapper, and Tip “T.I.” Harris, Rhythm + Flow chronicles the talents of unsigned rappers, who are competing to win a $250,000 prize.

6. The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes

The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes shows viewers some of the most incredible homes around the world. Hosted by award-winning architect Piers Taylor and actress and property developer Caroline Quentin, the series demonstrates how the designs function both as works of architecture and as real houses.

7. 100 Humans

In this series, 100 people go through various experiments on the theme of behavior. Faced with different situations and stimuli, each episode explores aspects of human conduct.

8. Queer Eye

My all-time favorite reality series, Queer Eye features five makeover experts known collectively as the Fab Five. Each episode features a new “hero,” who learns and experiences new things along with the Fab Five. The show is incredibly heartwarming, so get your tissues ready!

9. Styling Hollywood

Married business partners Jason Bolden and Adair Curtis make magic happen on the red carpet and at home for A-list celebrities.

10. The Apartment

Contestants must design and decorate a room each week as they compete to win for the grand prize of a luxury apartment in Kuala Lumpur, the cultural, financial, and economic center of Malaysia.

11. Blown Away

This is definitely one of the most unique shows on the list. Blown Away is a glassblowing competition series, during which the contestants attempt to create incredible glass sculptures depending on the challenge. The winner receives a $60,000 prize and an artist residency at the Corning Museum of Glass.

12. Cheapest Weddings

Cheapest Weddings follows Australian couples as they attempt to plan their dream wedding on a less-than-stellar budget. However, low budgets usually mean high tensions.

13. Married at First Sight

Each season of Married at First Sight features three couples, paired up by relationship experts, who agree to marry when they first meet. The couples spend their wedding night in a hotel before departing on their honeymoon. After the married couples live together for eight weeks, they choose to divorce or stay married.

14. Flinch

Flinch sees contestants being made to flinch, and if they indeed move there are immediate consequences.

15. Dating Around

Each episode of the series follows an individual going on five blind dates. The end goal is for the person to find one match worthy of a second date.