Hell’s Kitchen Is Bitchen
Misanthropes will love Hell’s Kitchen (Thurs Night @ 9pm on Fox).
I remember a few years ago when Reality TV had reached critical mass and every citizen was a little Jerry Seinfeld running around around saying “What’s with these reality TV shows?!”
Believe me, I sat in the booth next to you on your first date when you pulled that winner out. Novel. Real nice work.
Anyhow, reality TV is a useful medium because it has forced sitcom writers to write things that are interesting and realistic. Reality TV is actually a nice change from the decades of fluffy, bullshit sitcoms.
Back to Hell’s Kitchen and why it’s bitchen:
Unlike Top Chef these aren’t yuppies who own marginally successful restaurants in trendy neighborhoods or chubby rich kids fresh out of the Cordon Bleu school.
These people actually work in all areas of the food industry:
Sous Chefs, Buffet Cooks, Line Cooks, Caterers; they’re a motley crew— the dregs of the food industry.
They’re overweight. They’re unpolished. They try to be too fancy and look like amateurs. They really need this opportunity.
If you’re just tuning in now you’ve missed pretty much the entire season and it probably won’t make any sense.
The Host, Sole Judge and color commentator is Chef Gordon Ramsay from Blighty. He’s famous over there and also here, mostly for his propensity for getting pissed.
Ramsay is full of Briticisms and swear words. He’s like as badass as you can be if you’re wearing an apron.
On every episode the aspiring chefs attempt to create dishes based on challenges and then must later serve a restaurant (located on the Fox lot, i’m sure) full of PAs, associate producers and other picky peters who are probably belittled and emasculated on a daily basis.
The kitchen seems rigged to malfunction somehow; something always goes wrong, and often. If everything went smoothly there would not be an opportunity for Ramsay to get pissed and yell in the faces of the sycophantic wannabe chefs.
To me, people getting pissed is like performance art.
My friends and I used to get fake-pissed in public over miniscule slights and inconveniences just to enjoy the reactions of the people around us. I mean like loud shouting and gesturing. If you get super pissed, people tend to leave you alone and treat you with respect. It’s an interesting phenomenon.
Another time a group of friends and I were in Mexico for the Carnival celebration and were being surrounded by gang members looking to knife us. Serious– we saw the knives. We all started acting beligerrant and crazy and started singing loud anthems. Somehow it confused our would-be attackers enough to not attack us. True story.
So the chefs on Hell’s Kitchen who succeed are rewarded with retreats and trips and the ones who lose are given crappy tasks like cleaning up the kitchen and prepping food for that night’s service.
Like most reality shows, one beloved or hated contestant is voted off every show.
Last night a rather rotund gentleman named Bobby had health problems at the Borgata Resort, and he had to leave the show. Of course, because of this nobody was voted off but they sure were threatened.
Anyhow, it’s a good show. I look forward to every Thursday night to see the next installment. There’s one contestant named Paula DaSilva who is an able chef and i’d really like to be marooned on a desert island with her, a case of Patron and 10 Barry White records. The other female contestant is named Andrea and she looks very good in a bikini and despite being overbearing and assertive you can tell that she probably chills out when her boyfriend tells her to.
I don’t really like any of the characters but I really dislike gap-toothed brown-noser Ben. I think that my girl Paula will probably win and if she does I might visit that god forsaken Borgata Resort in Atlantic City to say hello.
Anyhow, if you’ve been watching this show too tell me your thoughts.
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I think it’s going to come down to Paula and Danny!!! Ben and Andrea do ok during the individual challenges, but their brains get all mushy during the dinner services! I’m going to miss Big Boy!
well Jen be sure to consider that both Gordon Ramsay and the Borgata want someone marketable to win the show/contest.
I don’t think that any of the contestants except paula are marketable. Robert/Bobby/Big Boy was definitely not marketable and he stood no chance of lasting any longer than he did.
Maybe Danny is suitable since he’s from Florida and so many visitors to AC are from Florida. I feel like he’s sort of white trash and can’t possibly win but at the same time a fuckup like andrea or ben will not be allowed to win either. I guess it is between Paula and Danny. If paula had bigger knockers i’d probably date her, but the poor girl has none at all.
i recently discovered gordon ramsey’s awesomeness – not on hell’s kitchen, but on his other show kitchen nightmares. he shows up in these podunk towns and attempts to save their failing restaurants from despair. but the best part isn’t watching chef ramsey tear these average joe restauranteur guys a new one (although that is a highlight) it’s finding out how absolutely clueless people are at running their own biz. a restaurant, nonetheless. the shit that people think they can get away with in the kitchen is appalling..
I watch that show on the Beeb (british slang for the BBC.. check me out) as well. It’s better than hell’s kitchen since the focus isn’t on yelling but rather on actually improving someone’s business. I like the guy with the italian restaurant in wales or wherever that was.
I’m thinking it will come down to Paula and Danny. I think you’re right that Danny isn’t marketable but I think this is more because he is young, brash, and on the inexperienced side. However, I think he would probably make a better Head Chef since he seems to communicate well and keep everyone in line (Paula stays more to herself). And, boobs do not make the woman; the woman makes the boobs=) Let’s do dinner again.
I think that one of the women will win. Think of it from a PR point of view: most casino-goers are men and a cardboard cut-out of her would look a lot better than that Floridian mullethead danny.
Yeah another dinner sounds good, but this time let’s be a little more critical of the food.