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The Trust Series-Premiere Recap: Boys Versus Girls


Netflix’s new competition series aims to expose greed by … letting everyone win?

After what is one of the slowest starts in recent paradisiacal-game-show history, the group’s next challenge feels like a forced icebreaker at a company retreat: The contestants sit around a firepit and pull out index cards that reveal an anonymous secret about each member. The self-fulfilling prophecy shines down on Tolú when Juelz and Simone return to the group and tell them that her vote has been blocked (alongside Bryce’s) in order for them to put more money into the pot. But it does not dawn on him the other ways that he’s pissed off the women: the misogyny-tinged rankings, the intimate personal details he extracted from them, and the numerous times he’s referred to Tolú and Winnie as his African sisters and queens (he must pay for this).

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