''Cooking with Paris'' is an American six-part

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presented by

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. It was released on August 4, 2021, on

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. In January 2022, Netflix cancelled the series after its first season.

Premise

An unscripted cooking series filmed in her home, ''Cooking with Paris'' follows Hilton tackling new recipes and "unusual kitchen appliances". Each episode guest stars one of her celebrity friends, with the final episode featuring both

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and Nicky Hilton.

Cast

as host Guests *

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* Lele Pons * Kathy Hilton *

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Episodes

Production

On July 27, 2021,

announced a six-part reality cooking series presented by

, following a viral

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video Hilton posted in January 2020, which showed her cooking a homemade lasagna. The show is executive produced by Hilton for Slivington Manor Entertainment, and Aaron Saidman,

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, and Rebecca Hertz for The Intellectual Property Corporation. On January 17, 2022, Netflix canceled the series after one season.

Release

On July 27, 2021, Netflix released a trailer for ''Cooking with Paris''. On August 4, 2021, the platform released the series.

Reception

''Cooking with Paris'' received mostly negative reviews from critics. On the

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, it has an approval rating of 29% based on 21 reviews, with the consensus, "''Cooking with Paris'' has the potential to delight, but by stranding Hilton's persona so deep in her past it feels like a missed opportunity for her to begin something new."

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, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 34 out of 100 based on 10 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". The series ranked at number one (tied with ''

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'') on Metacritic's Worst TV Shows of 2021 list. Jordan Julian of ''

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'' stated that the show is "an over-produced miss. ..She seems to be trying to channel her clueless, perpetually bored ''

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'' persona, but now that we know that that was just a character, it feels forced." Writing for '' Variety'', Daniel D'Addario said: "The problem, for Hilton, is that ''Cooking With Paris'' is a disaster — an utterly unappealing sit that many viewers will tune out before the first episode has ended." Lucy Mangan of ''

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'' felt that it "all gets odder as it goes on. It's not (just) that Hilton has only four phrases at her disposal ('So good', 'So bomb', 'Insane', 'So cute'), but that she is such a deadening presence." Despite the critical response, ''Cooking with Paris'' briefly entered Netflix's Top 10 rankings in a number of territories, and earned Hilton the Best Reality Return at the 2022 MTV Movie and TV Awards.

References

External links

* * {{Netflix original ended series (2019–present) 2020s American cooking television series 2021 American television series debuts 2021 American television series endings American English-language television shows Netflix original programming Paris Hilton Television series by Sony Pictures Television