A new Netflix documentary is stripping the makeup off a long-time guilty pleasure: the reality competition show America’s Next Top Model.

Netflix’s publicity site Tudum released a trailer for Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, a new documentary that will “unpack the inner workings of the show, which became a viral juggernaut with a global audience of over 100 million people at its peak,” according to the official description under the trailer.

Directed by crime documentarians Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan, the three-part series features interviews with ANTM’s key players, including judges J. Alexander, Nigel Barker, Jay Manuel, and models Giselle Samson, Whitney Thompson, Shannon Stewart, Shandi Sullivan, Dani Evans, and Keenyah Hill. The participants all dish on the show and its legacy over 20 years since it first aired.

Model Danielle Evans tells of the invasive surgery she had while a contestant on America’s Next Top Model. Image courtesy Netflix.

America’s Next Top Model, created by Tyra Banks and developed by Ken Mok and Kenya Barris, ran for 24 seasons (or “cycles,” as they were called on the show) from 2003 to 2016. The show started out on the UPN network, and was assumed into The CW network when UPN and The WB were merged.

Each cycle followed a new group of aspiring models from across the US who lived together, competed in challenges, and faced a weekly elimination. The eventual winner was named “America’s Next Top Model” and awarded a spread in a fashion magazine, plus contracts with a major fashion brand and a modeling agency. The “Top Models” did not always find fame and fortune after they were selected.

Since moving to streaming, ANTM has found a new audience who are looking at the show through a different lens, seeing, as the press release describes it, the show’s “increasingly outlandish stunt shoots and compulsory cosmetic transformations — including drastic haircuts and invasive dental surgeries [and] judges’ biting critiques of contestants’ shapes, weight, and looks.”

“I haven’t really said much. But, now it’s time,” says Banks in the trailer, adding “I wanted to fight against the fashion industry.” Whatever its problems, ANTM did attempt to defy industry norms by casting contestants of different races, body types, and backgrounds.

By her own admittance, this is the first time Banks has spoken openly to the cameras about her controversial show. Whether she is completely frank about her role in the assorted controversies remains to be seen.

Former ANTM judge Jay Manuel. Image courtesy Netflix.

In the trailer, Banks says “I knew I went too far,” – about what, we don’t know – then adds the caveat, “it was very intense, but you guys were demanding it.” Nigel Barker says in one clip, “It was wrong and for some reason no one seemed to see it … we felt betrayed.” And Jay Manuel says in another, “I realized Tyra would do anything for the success of her show.”

Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model debuts on February 16th.