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# Lose Yourself in These Arts & Crafts Reality Shows
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/art-and-craft-reality-shows-streaming/
- Published: 2021-01-25T21:19:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:35:27.000Z
- Description: From competitive glass blowing to professional LEGO building, stream these creative programs.
- Author: Dan Schindel
- Tags: Film, Documentary, Glass Blowing, Hulu, LEGO, Netflix, Reality TV, restoration, Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

Sometimes you just want to watch someone make something cool. For such times, here are three TV shows about people building, crafting, restoring, and/or otherwise working with things.

## Blown Away

I could watch people blow glass for hours. Scratch that; I *have* watched people blow glass for hours. No matter how much I understand how mechanics and chemistry of the process, I still look at people doing this and think "Oh this is sorcery." They shape molten color into art! That's so nifty. In this Canadian series, a group of 10 blowers compete each season, with one being eliminated each week until a champion emerges. If you're prepared to have strong opinions on opposing glass artworks, then check this out.

*On* [*Netflix*](https://www.netflix.com/title/80215147?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*

## LEGO Masters

LEGOs are quite possibly the platonic ideal of a toy. Within the framework of thousands of different pieces are literally endless potential outcomes. It is a vector for pure imagination. LEGO is good. LEGO is life. This is a show entirely about people who have become architectural luminaries among LEGO, competing to build the best structures. I could never have imagined anything like this while playing with my knights and pirates sets as a lad.

*On* [*Hulu*](https://www.hulu.com/series/lego-masters-fd4ada37-965a-4f86-9ea4-0b214f3e6d7e?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*

## The Repair Shop

Let's take a break from competition-focused shows for something purely constructive — something you can put on the TV if you simply want to relax in the balm of watching **things be cleaned, fixed, polished, brightened, and finished**. This British series focuses on a team of skilled artisans who restore antiques. Each episode consists of playing out the incredibly simple formula of "Oh no, look at how beaten up that telescope/toy/chair is! Surely they can't fix that? No wait, they *could*! Phew." It works every time.

*On* [*Netflix*](https://www.netflix.com/title/81224128?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*