Andrew Garfield gushes over favorite 'horny' reality show “Too Hot to Handle”: 'It's a very beautiful thing'

Calling all reality TV junkies — Andrew Garfield is ready to join your ranks.

The We Live in Time actor has revealed his favorite "guilty pleasure" reality show, and he's sharing it with the world. In a new interview, Garfield not only confessed his love for Netflix's Too Hot to Handle, but also made the case for why everyone should check out the British dating show.

"F---, it’s really good," Garfield told W. "It's like a bunch of hot people who think they're going on a Love Island–type show. In the first interviews they're all like, 'Yeah, I can't wait to get railed like every day' and then the guys [are] like, 'Yeah, I can't wait to rail women every day.' They're just horny, hot people — but wait, this is where the twist happens."

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Garfield cotinued, "So they get to the island, and they're like, 'Woo!' in their swimming costumes… and then a day goes by, they have a party, maybe a couple will make out, maybe there will be some fellatio, it's up to them. And then, it's revealed to them that they are in fact on Too Hot to Handle."

So what are the stakes when you find yourself on Too Hot To Handle instead of a classic paradise island dating show? As Garfield said, "There's a prize pot of money and you only win it if you don't f--- each other."

But wait, it gets even weirder.

"The competition is run by this Alexa kind of robot, and she tells them, 'You've all been selected because you are terrified of intimacy. You will be here for a week, and anything you do physically with each other that is not born out of a true emotional connection you will be fined for, and your prize pot will go down and down and down,'" the actor explained, doing an impression of the show's robot, Lana. "And then, like, suddenly all these really horny, maybe sex-addicted people are having to not jerk off, not do anything sexual unless they're given permission by Lana, the robot."

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When the group of singles, usually self-proclaimed commitment-phobes, do make real connections and have moments of true intimacy, Lana allows them to get physically intimate without affecting their prize pots.

As Garfield explained, "The robot tells them, 'You guys are making a good emotional connection. You have five minutes to, like, tongue each other.'"

Crass as that sounds, Garfield argued that it's actually an "amazing thing" to witness. "You see these people who start to reveal their traumas, and suddenly they're softening and they're vulnerable and they're terrified of doing it, and everyone around them is very encouraging," he said. "It's a very beautiful thing."

Since its April 2020 premiere, Netflix has aired six seasons of the dating show. A handful of couples who met on the show have stayed together, including season 2’s Emily Miller and Cam Holmes, who welcomed their first child together in June 2024.

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After heaping all that praise on Too Hot to Handle, Garfield admitted that he holds another reality show in even higher esteem.

"The Traitors," he told W when asked to name his favorite. "The British version. I love the American version, but the British version, with Claudia Winkleman, is the greatest. I don't know if there's a better television show that's ever been made."

Watch Garfield rave about his guilty TV pleasure in the video about.

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