A new docu-series titled Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model offers viewers access to behind-the-scenes moments. The release of this series coincides with an increasing trend amongst long-running, successful television series to be evaluated and documented using this same format.

As with many reality series hailing from the late aughts, history has not looked too kindly upon cutthroat competition show America’s Next Top Model, a fact long acknowledged by host and supermodel Ty...