‘Million Dollar Beach House’ Lacks the ‘Selling Sunset’ Magic: TV Review

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIf America’s modern space age began in the 1960s, it hit a wall in 1986 with the Challenger disaster, when the U.S. space shuttle by that name exploded during takeoff, killing all seven crew members aboard.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticParis Hilton has been in the “due for a re-evaluation” stage of her career for far longer than she was evaluated in the first place.In 2008, a documentary about Hilton, entitled “Paris, Not France,” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival; in it, Hilton, one of several women whose time in the limelight in the 2000s descended into an acrimonious war waged by and on the media, attempted to explain why she’d been treated unfairly.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe tide of symbolism in “The Third Day,” HBO’s new limited series, rises high enough to threaten to swamp the show. But two urgently compelling central performances keep viewers afloat all the same.The six-part series is broken into two halves but united by setting: A surreal island called Osea somewhere in the United Kingdom, one governed by ritual and a sort of magic, surrounded by choppy and threatening seas and accessible only by narrow causeway.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIt’s hard to think of something less risky for a performer than making a big show of being daring.On Netflix’s new show “The Duchess,” series creator and star Katherine Ryan makes a very big deal out of transgressing, playing a character whose showy amorality feels borrowed from other, better shows. Ryan’s character, also named Katherine, is a London mom who doubles as a chaos agent.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticOn Hulu’s “Woke,” cartoonist Keef Knight (Lamorne Morris, recently of “New Girl”) sees his world shaken into surreality by an experience that’s sadly common. After a run-in with violent, racist police officers who stop short of taking his life but manhandle and humiliate him in the process, Keef begins to hear the accoutrements of his life — pens, photos of himself, liquor bottles — speaking to him in frank and often harsh tones.

Million Dollar Beach House's predecessor. Like, to the point where people think The Oppenheim Group is just a bunch of hired actors who don't actually sell property.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe first character we hear speak in “The Comey Rule,” Showtime’s two-episode limited series about the unhappy tenure of the former FBI director launching Sept. 27, is not James Comey at all.

Million Dollar Beach House could have been great. It has all the ingredients for a perfect reality TV show: excessive amounts of money, drama, and one of the most beautiful backdrops imaginable.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIn an episode late in the first season of the new series “Get Organized with The Home Edit,” the actress Jordana Brewster tells the show’s hosts, two professional organizers, that she wants them to make her fridge “look like a store, like you do.” When the fridge has been completed, with products facing label-forward in tidy symmetrical lines, Brewster is overwhelmed.

Million Dollar Beach House, now streaming on Netflix, has many of the ingredients that make a great reality show: excessive wealth, people screaming, “I’m a very private person!” on a series that will be available to millions, a man named Neil St.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerExcepts have appeared from the new book Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady, written by her former best friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.The tell-all comes out September 1 via Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books imprint.

Million Dollar Beach House has been up to.Last time we saw Peggy, she and Noel weren't exactly getting along—but it looks like they're currently on okay enough terms to pose for Instagram pics together (also, hi Joel!). A post shared by (@peggy__z) on When it comes to her personal life, Peggy appears to have a serious boyfriend—or at least she did as of February, so here's to hoping he appears on the show: A post shared by (@peggy__z) on By the way, yes, Peggy is still with Nest Seekers.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThere’s something elemental about the desire to look to the stars, to imagine oneself as well as, perhaps, all humanity, finding a future beyond the planet we once called home.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThroughout the weeklong broadcast of the Republican National Convention, speakers argued that Donald Trump was not in fact the person we’d seen for nearly four years as our president and for longer as a presence on social media and in the national psyche — that he was gentle, loving, kind, generous.

Million Dollar Beach House literally JUST dropped.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAny time Eddie Shapiro, president and CEO of international real estate firm Nest Seekers International, has the opportunity to put his company’s listings and brand in front of millions of viewers across the world, he says he wants to take it.After having employees on such shows as Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing New York,” the firm is now taking center stage in Netflix’s “Million Dollar Beach House.” The new streaming series is six episodes featuring

Selling Sunset. When the first trailer dropped for Netflix’s Million Dollar Beach House, a reality TV series that follows wealthy realtors in the Hamptons, many compared it to Selling Sunset.However, there are many differences, Million Dollar Beach House star J.B.

Selling Sunset, then you'll be all over its latest real estate reality show: Million Dollar Beach House. Be sure to put that on your must-watch list for this week, along with these seven other TV shows and movies. The Vow: A new documentary about the NXIVM cult.