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Miss L Toe
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Username: Miss_l_toe
Post Number: 252
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 4:28 pm: |     |
A new program starting tonight on Fox (9pm) is 'Hell's Kitchen' with top chef Gordon Ramsay.
My husband has seen his UK series in England of 'Kitchen Nightmares' where he tries to turn around failing restaurants.....Ramsay is a perfectionist and has an incredible temper so there was a lot of 'effing and blinding'....I'm sure it will have been toned down immensely for a US audience LOL!
There seems to be more and more British actors and productions appearing on TV over here....the celebrity ballroom dancing is airing this week on the ABC channel too. |
Lizziecat
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Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 679
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 12:06 am: | |
I saw it. Dreadful. I can't understand why presumably sane adults would subject themselves to treatment like that. On television. |
sullymw
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Username: Sullymw
Post Number: 609
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 9:26 am: | |
yes, too over-the-top mean and rude. it smacks of phoniness. especially when he was mean and rude to the restaurant patrons too and their reaction was 'you hurt my feelings'. very fake IMO. |
redY67
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Username: Redy67
Post Number: 2062
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 11:10 am: | |
I couldn't believe that either. He tells the patrons FU, then closes the kitchen. After he remarks a successful restaurant has two key elements. Good service and good food. The first night they are open Chef chases all the patrons out. |
Dego Diva
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Username: Fmingione
Post Number: 483
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2005 - 9:44 pm: | |
Oh that was NOT a real open night folks! Those people were actors. Who, in their right mind, would wait over an hour for appetizers, and then STILL stick around after being told to f-off? It was staged, and very poorly acted. Yes, just too over-the-top. It's a shame because I do like the concept - it was just poorly executed. |
AlleyGater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 428
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 3, 2005 - 10:29 am: | |
I was torn about the concept of the show. Fine, it's another reality show -- at this point I don't even bother complaining about that. But the idea of a non-trained chef getting the chance to win an upscale restaurant seems silly. I think it might be fine if Ramsay was teaching these people but the first episode didn't lead me to believe that there is any teaching to be had. It seemed more about tension and contests and catty fighting. I will admit however that I am in love with the name Dewberry now and have started calling my dog by that name. I was also irritated that the restaurant wasn't in NYC in Hell's Kitchen. What an obvious missed opportunity. My initial reaction was why were these contestants chosen? None of them seem to be worthy of a restaurant, nor do they seem very interesting. I was shocked that that woman backstabbed Dewberry so early in the game and look forward to the fallout. And I was pretty shocked that Ramsay chose the competent-chicken woman to go home, but I thought his reasoning for choosing her was spot on.
As much of d*ck that Ramsay is, I do get a sense that he knows what he is talking about. I couldn't help wondering if he was going to mellow out a bit in future episodes because he seemed to be OVER acting in the first episode to show the contestants that this is going to be HARD and he isn't joking around. Food is LIFE OR DEATH serious to this guy. And it would have to be when so much money is on the line, and he has such a HUGE reputation to uphold. While Ramsay was over-the-top in an ACTING sort of way, and there is a lot of uneccessary theatrics in the show, I also realize that chefs don't have patience and do curse like a sailor and are highly stressed, and are unbelievably demanding. Not all of them are this way, but clearly Ramsay is one of those style of chefs. Overall, I would give the show a C+, but I was admittedly interested in where it was going to go. The show has me for AT LEAST one more episode. I'll see you back here next week. |
Redheadgirl
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Username: Redheadgirl
Post Number: 34
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 3, 2005 - 10:30 am: | |
If you want real, unscripted drama, you all should check out the show "The First 48" on A&E (on Sunday nights at 8 and Thurs nights at 10). Real detectives. real murders, real investigations. It's probably the best show on TV! |
AlleyGater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 431
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 3, 2005 - 10:57 am: | |
If you don't like Law and Order, Cops, The Wire, CSI, 24, or real life mysteries of the morgue (solved) shows, would you like The First 48? |
redY67
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Username: Redy67
Post Number: 2095
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 3, 2005 - 11:01 am: | |
alley, well sais about the teaching. He didn't teach them anything. It is more like "get bullied into being a chef" |
Redheadgirl
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Username: Redheadgirl
Post Number: 35
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 3, 2005 - 11:15 am: | |
Gater: I bet you would still like The First 48. There' really nothing like it out there. |
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