Too Hot to Handle: A Second Autopsy
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- A video essay about the second season of Netflix's worst (?) reality show, "Too Hot to Handle," in which I talk about the scientific method, the MasterChef model of reality television, and the card game typically known as "Mao."
00:00 Intro
00:51 Part One: The Scientific Method (Revisited)
03:13 Part One Part Two: Too Hot to Handle is Kinda Wrong
06:00 Part Two: Power to the People!
09:42 Part Three: The Card Game Typically Known as "Mao"
I’m really happy to see I wasn’t the only person who was interested in this show from an analytical perspective. Really enjoyed the content and argument.
Just discovered your channel through the breaking bad video, then started to binge watch all of your videos, and couldn't believe it when I saw this one! The cold analysis of THTH is the video I didn't know I needed. Your analysis is spot on.
For me, I found this show and other netflix dating shows (love is blind, the ultimatum) fascinating because it is presented as an "experiment" (from the own words of the presenters) but shame anyone that doesn't give the results that confirm the show assumptions. For someone that is also non monogamous, and move into relationship anarchy, these shows are deeply dystopian. It is unsettling how quickly some of the contestants will totally buy the premises and assumptions of the show. And if they didn't find love, then it was their own fault, or because they self-sabotage or whatever. And you need just 1 couple making it to prove that the experiment worked, 1 couple out of 5 seasons. Wow, what a solid proof to validate your assumption!
in season 4, this happened again. the 2 couples who did not practice abstinence in the slightest, that being nick & jawahir and seb & kayla both were finalists of the show as they were deemed to have the best relationships whereas as james and brittan practiced abstinence in the extreme and did not win the show. in fact, seb and kayla are still together to this day whereas a lot of other couples other than james and brittan who did practice abstinence have not lasted outside the show
lmao being aromantic/asexual, when i first heard the concept for this show i thought "oh, that'd be easy." I'm both vindicated and angry to hear that a contestant played the game too well/didn't break the rules and got eliminated for it.
The Chinese national anthem playing between parts caught me off guard and really made me laugh lmao
I like the way you think and analyze, sir. You gained a new subbie.
See, as a fan of the show, I don't agree there have to be clear rules about how to win or how to stay on the show. The rules it sets are much more about how the prize fund is reduced (or sometimes, quite randomly, gained back), the winning itself isn't as interesting as how the contestants interact with one another when it comes to these rules and the money they lose for the group.
The show is interesting precisely because there's an interesting synthesis that happens when the couples who have broken the rules a lot still (at least seemingly) learn something from Lana--who obviously isn't always right about everything, she's presented as a device who doesn't know how it is to be a human in a relationship, right? The truth is somewhere in the middle, and being mindful to a degree about who you have sex with and why is certainly not a bad idea. Personally I'm someone with attachment trauma who has gone through many years of lots of random encounters, who still more often than not finds it hard to trust people who come into my life, so I can relate to the contestants to a degree, and it moves me to see them learn what I had to learn in months of therapy, that vulnerability is worth it. Even if then they turn around to ghost their partner once the show is over. It's that emotional growth, even if we obviously can't tell if it's honest or performed, that sets it apart from similar sex-focused shows.
Okay, neurodivergent rant over.
Yo wheres the first one xx