We know because the camera is on the cook's face, but so what. The judges comments are: 'whom ever made this dish did a grate job.'. Just judges tasting and the cooks standing in a group no one knows who made the dish. He does not step forward, is not under pressure. Another major problem is that there is no connection between the plate being judged and the person. You have no connection to those people, we the audience have no connection so all the drama that we are supposed to feel about which team wins does not exist. Stop with this childish drama and put those cooks under pressure and tell them they are not good enough. The music tries to force a drama, the judges keep saying they want to win, "we have to win guys", why? One judge says, 'they are all like my babies' this in the second episode, give me a break, they are not her babies, she had barely time to get to know them and saw them cook one time. I don't even know those people let alone cheer for a team. ![]() That's the other problem as I see it, The drama in this show is about each chef having a team and that team trying to win for their chef. Big mistake, you are missing the fundamentals of drama. Here we are told they are selected, deal with it, and listen now to their back story with over the top dramatic music that is detached from our emotions. This is how it also works in The Voice, contestants come and sing and hope a judge picks them and we the public get involved int he process. In Mastercook it worked because people had to compete for a spot and had to cook for it and sweat for it.in front of all 3 judges. It like a sixty year old Ramsey is traying to be hip with the times. ![]() We have no idea why they are chosen, apparently being a 'social media cook' is a ticket.what a joke. No one is chosen, no competition where they sweat and we wonder if the judges will take them for the show. They are not chefs that have struggled and have come in front of the judges and cooked something that impressed them and got them chosen. Send home half over a half season and then tell me a story about those that remain as I, as a viewer, have now formed an attachment or distaste for those that remain. Here we are given a presentation on each one with the obligatory struggles story from the get go. The way we get attached to people as we seem them perform under pressure in Hell's Kitchen for example. I thought about why and here is what I believe: First, we the viewers have no interest in the contestants back stories, we want them to emerge as individuals during the cooking tests. I love Gordon Ramsey, from his Hell's Kitchen, Nightmare Kitchens and Mastershef where he took a back seat a little. The basic idea is interesting and you can be sure from which source the producers got their inspiration, but after the first episode the show looks like solid, albeit very familiar feeling entertainment. Here it's all about breathless action in the kitchen, spiced up with little details from the private lives of the candidates, whose names you won't remember anyway at this early stage. Although the pace and action is still enjoyable, I sometimes wish for the return of Ramsay's much more relaxed edited Euro productions, where the camera lingers for a while to give the viewer a chance to be absorbed by what's going on. Unfortunately, at least to a degree, because the style of "Hell's Kitchen" or "Masterchef USA" can also be found here: very fast cuts, plastic orchestral music from the computer, and the focus here is clearly on the drama of contestants under time pressure, all wonderfully consumed by their ambitions and egos, while the food itself, on the other hand, is not that important. This is very reminiscent of the film "The Platform" (El Hoyo, ESP 2019, D: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia), only without the sharp social criticism, it is after all a Gordon Ramsay game show. ![]() With five contestants per level, those at the bottom must cook with the leftovers left by the two teams above them. A platform of ingredients is lowered over three floors, from a state-of-the-art kitchen to a standard industrial kitchen down to a nicely decorated basement hole with hardly any cooking tools.
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