Overview
- Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model is a three-part Netflix series debuting Feb. 16, produced by EverWonder Studio and Wise Child Studios and directed by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan.
- The trailer features on-camera interviews with Tyra Banks, former judges Nigel Barker, Jay Manuel and J. Alexander, producer Ken Mok, and contestants including Danielle (Dani) Evans, Whitney Thompson, Keenyah Hill and Giselle Samson.
- Footage and testimony revisit practices now widely criticized, including racially insensitive shoots, harsh body commentary and a dental procedure undertaken during competition that Evans calls “so f---ed up.”
- The series examines internal rifts, noting the 2012 ouster of Manuel, Miss J. and Barker, with Manuel describing feelings of betrayal tied to the shakeup.
- Not all alumni participated, with cycle 1 winner Adrianne Curry declining, and the trailer has already prompted public debate over Banks’ suggestion that audience demand pushed the show’s extremes.