Hell's Kitchen

[LIMAMA]

I laughed my ass off last night. What a bunch of clueless clowns. Ramsey popped his cork very early on.

[EricCartman]

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I loved that one guy couldn't even get a salad right!!!

The girl with the glasses is a long-term, drama generating, 22 year old ball of crazy who may be/cause the first stabbing on the show.

[SuperScribe]

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Love love LOVE Sabrina (girl w/ the glasses).

[LIMAMA]

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What drug was Sabrina on? When she started that rambling crapola and saying "the world is my oyster" I nearly peed in my pants. And that Raj, how on earth did he ever make it past the audition? Surely Ramsey is keeping him around for comic relief.

[NikeeGoddess]

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after so many seasons they've managed to make each one more entertaining than the last. it was hilarious. methinks they go out of their way to find buffoons.

next week looks like raj and can't-dress-a-salad guy will go head to head next week with the knives - 3 ambulances!!!

personal gripe - not much color this season.

but did anyone see top chef desserts - and seth's breakdown - crying big tears like a big ol baby b/c his sorbet didn't freeze. he actually cried on the judge's shoulders, "i was doing this for my mommy!" LOL!
if you missed it you should definitely check it out on the replay

[Telly]

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I didn't watch it last night because I think the show jumped the shark last season. Seems to me it's become a farce, or at best, a shell of its former self. If you go back to the first couple seasons, you could actually get behind a chef and root for them to win, because they were actually talented.

Now, it's become casting idiots with spoons for ratings sake. It's become big brother or any one of those monstrosities where douchebags reign and no one is worthy of the actual prize. Might as well throw the cast of Jersey Shore in there with chef hats and let Ramsey scream for one hour. That's all it is now.

When you watch other shows like Top Chef, Master Chef, etc. you can still back a candidate because they're talented. These guys here are all idiots. Fortunately Ramsey's other shows are still dynamite, so I'll continue watching those.

[Cycstorm]

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I was into it when it started, back when it was maybe vaguely about food. Now it's just about a guy with temper issue screaming at insecure people in an attempt to make them cry/lose it on television.

[Telly]

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I was into it when it started, back when it was maybe vaguely about food. Now it's just about a guy with temper issue screaming at insecure people in an attempt to make them cry/lose it on television.

It's no different now than any one of the reality shows exploiting the most obnoxious characters they can find. It lost the food angle long ago.

Do a google image search for "Hells Kitchen Season __ contestants". Plug in the season numbers which will take you through the decline of chefs on the show. It's funny when you start remembering some of the quality they had on the show from the images and by the time you reach last season, it's all retards.

[Cycstorm]

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It's no different now than any one of the reality shows exploiting the most obnoxious characters they can find. It lost the food angle long ago.

I can't bare reality TV. I only watched Hell's Kitchen because I'm mildly interested in cooking. But like you say, it's not about food. It's about Ramsey melting the bleep machine.

[SuperScribe]

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And it's entertaining as hell.

That said, for honest-to-god cooking competitions, I prefer Master Chef and (from what I saw last night, which was the first time I'd watched the show) Top Chef.

For pure entertainment, though, Hell's Kitchen wins, hands down.

[Cycstorm]

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They stay with the knowledge that they are unlikely to get fed, but that they might get on TV for a few seconds.

[NePatsFan]

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Hey didn't a season of this just end? It's on again already?

[Telly]

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Hey didn't a season of this just end? It's on again already?

When production value doesn't matter anymore, you can just pick a bunch of idiots off the street and start shooting a new season back to back. Yes, the last season ended just a few weeks ago.

[scripto80]

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I didn't watch it last night because I think the show jumped the shark last season. Seems to me it's become a farce, or at best, a shell of its former self. If you go back to the first couple seasons, you could actually get behind a chef and root for them to win, because they were actually talented.

Now, it's become casting idiots with spoons for ratings sake.

Agree 100%. This season especially is RIDICULOUS. They very clearly cast a bunch of wannabe actors instead of chefs. There seem to be only a couple legitimate aspiring chefs in the bunch and if you'll notice they haven't shown them at all except in passing. Right now the focus is in all the strategically "placed characters" like the two stooges and the drama queens just to get viewers locked in up front. They'll get picked off early on though, and then we'll be left with the real (or the closest thing to them) chefs once the viewers are officially invested.

Last season was a joke though in terms of talent. NO ONE had any real talent, it was embarrassing.

But yeah. I miss the legitimacy of the first couple seasons. Honestly though that's why I love Master Chef now. Because the focus is on the food first and the chefs second. They only gave us brief glimpses at the people periodically so we care and can pick ones to root for, but everything revolved around cooking instead of drama. There was enough drama thrown in to call it a reality show, but for the most part it was a cooking show, which is what Hell's USED to be. It used to be about cooking, with a screaming chef in charge. Now it's about theatrics and antics and actors posing as both chefs and customers. Lame.

[SuperScribe]

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But entertaining.

(Someone get LIMAMA, Eric and Nikee back here, dangit! I hate feeling like the odd man out. )

The first couple of seasons were great. The last couple of seasons have also been great -- in a totally different way.