On Too Hot to Handle, comedian Desiree Burch acts as both rule-explainer and snark-provider, and it can be jarring to go from quips to exposition and back with no warning. The host introduces the show and its rules, while the narrator pokes fun at the contestants and their antics. For one thing, Love Island employs both a host and a narrator. show, it doesn’t entirely work for Netflix’s knockoff. But while the gentle ribbing doesn’t feel out of place on the U.K. The main thing Too Hot to Handle borrows from Love Island, though, is its snarky voice-over commentary. (This is the first trashy Netflix reality show with an international cast, and it’s really fun to hear the Americans start picking up British slang.)
The contestants on Too Hot to Handle would fit right in with the Love Islanders, especially since a few of them have thick British accents. At the end of the summer, the public votes on their favorite couple, who will split £50,000. Anyone who isn’t coupled up gets eliminated. On that program, a group of British hotties spends a month at a Mediterranean villa drinking, hanging out by the pool, and canoodling, with new islanders brought in to shake things up. Social-experiment framework aside, the reality show Too Hot to Handle most resembles is the U.K.
They didn’t come on this retreat to “form deeper connections” - they’re here to have fun, wear tiny bathing suits, make out with babes, and gain some Instagram followers.
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But while Love is Blind cast contestants who were open to the idea of finding someone and settling down, Too Hot to Handle is full of sweet, gorgeous dummies. It’s the same thesis at the heart of Love Is Blind, in which contestants were encouraged to open up to each other while inside isolation pods, falling in love without ever seeing each other. The reasoning is that these sexed-up party-girls and -boys are used to hopping into bed with whomever catches their eye, which prevents them from forming deeper connections. Like Love Is Blind before it, Too Hot to Handle is billed as a social experiment. An all-seeing AI named Lana, housed in what looks like a conical smart-home device, will be logging any indiscretions. That means no kissing, no sex, and no masturbation. The catch? Money is removed from that communal pot every time any of them makes sexual contact. After they arrive and size each other up (read: immediately start drinking and flirting heavily), they’re told that there’s a $100,000 prize on the line, to be split at the end of the retreat. Ten hot young singles head to an island retreat for what they’ve been told is a reality dating show. The premise of Too Hot to Handle, the latest offering in Netflix’s new slate of reality programming, is too bonkers to not be appealing.
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