‘Fauda’ season 3 hits Netflix – still a great thriller, but don’t call it political One of many indications that this is not a Mensa International summer retreat comes when a contestant asks what “self-gratification” means when the rules are explained by an AI voice called Lana (basically an even creepier version of Alexa).
I particularly loathe the increasingly large number that involve nubile young things and – to put it euphemistically – dating. I wish I were as immune to COVID-19 as I am to the charms of most reality television shows. In seven randomly selected countries – the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Israel (OK, that one wasn’t so random), Japan and Australia – the same series was number one in no fewer than six of them: Netflix’s new reality show “Too Hot to Handle.” Take a bow, Australia, but don’t get too smug because “Too Hot…” was second only to “The Last Dance” in your territory. And while the result didn’t quite make me despair for the future of humanity, let’s just say I’ll be rooting a little less hard for “Team Homo sapiens” against the coronavirus from now on.
I took a brief trip around the world last Thursday courtesy of VPN, hoping to discover what the number one Netflix show is in various countries. Two of the contestants, Nicole and David, in 'Too Hot to Handle.' Netflix
