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		<title>How Couples Therapy’s directors work to create empathy, not villainy</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/couples-therapy-season-5-directors-interview/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 01:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Couples Therapy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The outstanding series Couples Therapy is back, and I interviewed season 5 directors Kim Roberts and Yemisi Brookes about everything from the casting process to how they condense months of therapy into minutes of riveting reality TV.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Drag Race All Stars 11 episode 3 recap: monster mash</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/drag-race-all-stars-11-episode-3-shop-til-u-dro-recap/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marshal Knight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 19:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[RuPaul's Drag Race]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 11 already has its first two semifinalists after an improv challenge in monster costume that did not work for some of the queens. Marshal Knight recaps! ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fuck Kevin O’Leary, and fuck Shark Tank</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/shark-tank-and-kevin-oleary-suck/</link>
					<comments>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/shark-tank-and-kevin-oleary-suck/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 02:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Shark Tank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality TV show reviews]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why I'm done with Shark Tank, and why that hoser gnome Kevin O'Leary gave me yet another reason to despise him. ]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Kevin O'Leary models for the 👽 emoji on Shark Tank, which should fire him. (Photo by Christopher Willard/Disney) ]]></media:description>
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		<title>Who won America’s Culinary Cup?</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/americas-culinary-cup-season-1-winner-finale-recap/</link>
					<comments>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/americas-culinary-cup-season-1-winner-finale-recap/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 02:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[America's Culinary Cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality TV show recaps]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Did Cara, Chris, or Matt win America's Culinary Cup season one? Did Buddha Lo pop out of the elevator one more time just as a fun jump scare? Find out in my recap!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Survivor 50 episode 12 recap: inconeeblaivc!</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/survivor-50-episode-12-inconceivable-recap/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 02:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Survivor 50]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality TV show recaps]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Survivor 50's penultimate episode had two votes, and left me feeling like it's turning into a season of Big Brother. Let's discuss!]]></description>
		
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		<title>18 arresting moments in Storm at the Capitol</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/18-arresting-moments-in-storm-at-the-capitol-true-crime/</link>
					<comments>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/18-arresting-moments-in-storm-at-the-capitol-true-crime/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah D. Bunting]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 22:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[reality check]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[True Crime Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Evidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book reviews]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I frequently reacted out loud while reading Mary Clare Jalonick's oral history of January 6th. Here's a (partial) list of reasons why.]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Cover detail from Storm at the Capitol. The book's worth your time, if you won't find returning to those events too upsetting. (PublicAffairs)]]></media:description>
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		<title>How America’s Culinary Cup was cooked to be paired with Survivor</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/americas-culinary-cup-season-1-showrunner-josh-silberman-interview/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[America's Culinary Cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interviews]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I interviewed the showrunner of America's Culinary Cup, Josh Silberman, and he answered all my questions about Dawn Powerwash product placement, creating a new format, editing, and so much more. Plus: What Jeff Probst told him! ]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Padma Lakshmi in the “The Gastronomic Gauntlet” episode of America's Culinary Cup (Image via CBS)]]></media:description>
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		<title>Top Chef Carolinas episode 10 recap: go fish in the Abyss</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/top-chef-carolinas-episode-10-hook-line-dinner-recap/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 02:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Top Chef 23]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality TV show recaps]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Top Chef Carolinas had some fun at a lake with a mise en place race, fishing, and Tom Colicchio demanding "no poopies." Let's recap!]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Top Chef Carolinas chef Duyen Ha and judge Tom Colicchio in happier times (Photo by Paul Cheney/Bravo)]]></media:description>

		<series:name><![CDATA[Top Chef Carolinas recap]]></series:name>
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		<title>Creating a cooking competition from scratch</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/podcast/episode-501-americas-culinary-cup/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 01:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Padma Lakshmi wanted to shake up the cooking competition genre with America's Culinary Cup. So how did its format come together? I have insight from its showrunner and more!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Guess what’s back after Below Deck Down Under?</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/below-deck-med-season-11-coming-next/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Below Deck Mediterranean]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Below Deck Down Under ends, we're going right back to Below Deck Med, with Nathan and Joe (ugh) and Gael raising Nathan's kid "nearby" (UGH). ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Traitors Canada is now on Peacock</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/traitors-canada-seasons-1-2-3-peacock/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 16:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[reality check]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Traitors]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What a gift! Peacock just dropped three seasons of The Traitors Canada into our laps with no notice! Exciting and overwhelming!! ]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Traitors Canada host Karine Vanasse, who's now on Peacock with three seasons of her English-language Traitors]]></media:description>
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		<title>Drag Race All Stars 11 premiere recap: a new Dawn</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-season-11-episodes-1-and-2-recap/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marshal Knight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 15:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[RuPaul's Drag Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality TV show recaps]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yet another new format for RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars! Marshal Knight is recapping season 11 for us, and has the tea about which of the three queens have a shot in this first bracket, and whihc ]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Morgan McMichaels and Dawn are two of the Drag Race All Stars season 11 queens in bracket 1 that Marshal Knight thinks have a chance this season]]></media:description>

		<series:name><![CDATA[RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 11 recaps]]></series:name>
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		<title>Did 24 in 24: Last Chef Standing 3 overcomplicate shift three?</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/24-in-24-last-chef-standing-season-3-episode-3-recap/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 02:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[24 in 24 Last Chef Standing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality TV show recaps]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Does Molly Yeh know what black tie means? was going to be the subject of my 24 in 24: Last Chef Standing 3 episode 3 recap, but then this episode got confusing.]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[24 in 24: Last Chance Standing season 3 episode 3's guest judge, Eric Adjepong (right), with hosts Esther Choi and Michael Symon (Photo by Food Network)]]></media:description>
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		<title>The Idiot: Full of sound and fury, signifying…something</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/the-idiot-full-of-sound-and-fury-signifyingsomething-true-crime/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah D. Bunting]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[podcasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Evidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast reviews]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Serial/NYT's recent season from M. Gessen on unforgivable family is solidly constructed and reported. Is that enough?]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[The Idiot's title card. (John Currin for NYT/Serial Productions)]]></media:description>
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		<title>Survivor 50 episode 11 recap: the Power Broker</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/survivor-50-episode-11-everyone-will-be-shooketh-recap/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 02:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Survivor 50]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality TV show recaps]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Having just nearly fucked Survivor 50 with a coin flip last week, Jeff Probst and company left yet another episode to random chance, this time combined with Probst's obsession with tiny tribes. ]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Survivor 50 episode 11 brought out more games of chance from Jeff Probst's sack (Photo of Probst by Robert Voets/CBS; composite by Andy Dehnart/reality blurred)]]></media:description>

		<series:name><![CDATA[Survivor 50 recaps]]></series:name>
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		<title>Charlotte paid $1.2 million for Top Chef. Did they get their money’s worth?</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/top-chef-carolinas-charlotte-partnership-cost/</link>
					<comments>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/top-chef-carolinas-charlotte-partnership-cost/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 20:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Top Chef 23]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[behind-the-scenes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I requested public records to find out how much Charlotte, North Carolina, paid to host Top Chef Carolinas. Find out here—and how much of Charlotte was featured across eight episodes. ]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Bravo's Top Chef Carolinas is made in partnership with the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, which paid more than $1 million for the show to film there]]></media:description>
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		<title>Read-Handed: Baseball in jail and a cold case in Jersey</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/read-handed-baseball-in-jail-and-a-cold-case-in-jersey-true-crime/</link>
					<comments>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/read-handed-baseball-in-jail-and-a-cold-case-in-jersey-true-crime/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah D. Bunting]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 17:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[reality check]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Evidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Read-Handed]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/?p=114224</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Plus a Danish heist, a false prophet, a Lawn Guyland grifter, and much more in this longreads ten-pack.]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Minor-league baseball at Old Joliet Prison. (MLB.com)]]></media:description>
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		<title>Top Chef Carolinas episode 9 recap: mayo the fourth be with the chefs</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/top-chef-carolinas-episode-9-ultimate-dinner-party-recap/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 01:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Top Chef 23]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality TV show recaps]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/?p=114714</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Top Chef Carolinas welcomed back Rhoda just in time to very nearly throw her out again the next day, thanks to a race through two challenges.]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[The fuck are you all looking at? If you're hungry, go get yourself a snack. As Jeff Probst says, got nothin' for ya. Except this Top Chef Carolinas recap! (Photo by Paul Cheney/Bravo))]]></media:description>

		<series:name><![CDATA[Top Chef Carolinas recap]]></series:name>
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		<title>Did Molly Yeh know what she was cooking on 24 in 24: Last Chef Standing this week?</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/24-in-24-last-chef-standing-season-three-episode-2-recap/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Network]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/?p=114708</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[My second brief recap of 24 in 24: Last Chef Standing season three, in which I focus on the new trend of Molly Yeh not knowing what she's cooking. ]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Molly Yeh on 24 in 24: Last Chef Standing (Photo by Rob Pryce/Food Network)]]></media:description>
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		<title>Is Ultimate Baking Championship a winner?</title>
		<link>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/ultimate-baking-championship-food-network-season-1-review/</link>
					<comments>https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2026/05/ultimate-baking-championship-food-network-season-1-review/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Dehnart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 23:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality TV show reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recommended]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Food Network's Ultimate Baking Championship ends its first season tonight. Did it live up to its title? Have all other baking shows ever been shoved into an oven by this show? Let's discuss!]]></description>
		
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<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Ultimate Baking Championship's season 1 winner will be revealed at the end of its May 4, 2026, finale (Photo by Food Network)]]></media:description>
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