I just started watching this late at night. I usually really enjoy cooking shows and contests, like "Top Chef" where there is silly drama, but we see the creations and processes of coming up with and preparing a dish.
This show has none of that, as it is all about the (melo)drama and not the cooking. If you watch one competition until the end when one chef is the winner, you've seen all of the seasons. We see no cooking skills, just the unbelievable repetitiveness of Beef Wellington, halibut, scallops, risotto, lamb and a few other dishes.
We get increasingly ridiculous and mean-spirited "challanges" and punishments that also have nothing to do with cooking, i.e. Shoveling out horse stalls? Really? We watch a bunch of grown people bitching, snarking and throwing tantrums like children, most of which is no doubt scripted. In between that, we have Ramsay's "All of you, get over here! Get out! Oh, come on! IT'S RAW!!" and screaming bleeped curses over and over and over...
I have no idea how this show lasted so long.
This show has none of that, as it is all about the (melo)drama and not the cooking. If you watch one competition until the end when one chef is the winner, you've seen all of the seasons. We see no cooking skills, just the unbelievable repetitiveness of Beef Wellington, halibut, scallops, risotto, lamb and a few other dishes.
We get increasingly ridiculous and mean-spirited "challanges" and punishments that also have nothing to do with cooking, i.e. Shoveling out horse stalls? Really? We watch a bunch of grown people bitching, snarking and throwing tantrums like children, most of which is no doubt scripted. In between that, we have Ramsay's "All of you, get over here! Get out! Oh, come on! IT'S RAW!!" and screaming bleeped curses over and over and over...
I have no idea how this show lasted so long.