Hell's Kitchen

2005

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7.2| 0h30m| TV-14| en| More Info
Released: 30 May 2005 Returning Series
Producted By: Granada America
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.fox.com/hells-kitchen/
Synopsis

Aspiring restaurateurs brave Ramsay and his fiery command of the kitchen as he puts the competitors through an intense culinary academy to prove they possess the right combination of ingredients to win a life-changing grand prize.

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Sjalka Rjadottir It is - a guilty pleasure! - Objectively - it is the same thing over and over and over again. Ramsey builds up a team by breaking them first, which is very simplistic psychology.At first - one gets the impression that he really seeks "the best possible" candidate for a job - but more and more - it degrades into too much a compromise of ratings.So he keeps the controversial ones, kicks the silent ones, no matter the skill - choices are more and more made to even out ethnic expectations than anything. So each group usually has a primary group of white people, at least 1 or two Asians and 1 or 2 black people. You usually get the bossy one, the dizzy one, the silent one, the pretty one and the scapegoat.It becomes too predictable.... .Predictable is what kind of ruins it in the long run. Comparing contests almost always end with a "close win" - rarely do we see a team totally annihilating the other team with a 10 to 0 score or so.It is also very unclear when he gets upset and when not. I know that this is part of "breaking" someone - but it is not transparent enough to start to care.And with the predictability and the lack of care - the show degrades just to a level of ... guilty pleasure.A pleasure for seeing others being yelled at.postscript.: maybe because it is Fox ... but the fixation on the Veterans and the military is cringe worthy at least for a European like me. I think i just saw an episode where Ramsey literally yells over a dozen times that they must "think of the coast guards" - to motivate them - as if that's a big deal. On the other hand - for Americans - maybe it is? All in all - it is a 5/10 - for entertainment that you really do not need your brain for - and a bit of an embarrassment for Ramsey, whom i saw in amazing documentaries where he travels the world in search of new and exciting dishes. Here he primarily acts (not too well) a rather boring role.
nick-monkton I firmly believe that Seasons 2-6 are enjoyable for everyone to watch but the show's downward spiral has been immanent since Season 9. First of all, Gordon does a lot of stupid things you would never do in a kitchen, I can forgive getting up and shouting right in people's faces and dismissing them halfway through service due to putting in a terrible performance and sending them to the pantry and warning them to get their act together. It's when he makes stupid-ass decisions you would NEVER make if you were him.Gordon has inexplicably eliminated contestants over contestants who absolutely 200% should've been sent home and this isn't a rare occurrence this happens at least 2-3 times every season. Some of the worst examples include Elsie over Jessica, Virginia over Garrett, Sara and Keith Shayna over Matt/Rosann, Bobby over Jen, Benjamin over Jason, Emily over Melissa Don(k)ey, Amanda over Carrie, Jamie over Carrie and Elise, Natalie,Elizabeth and Jennifer over Elise, Patrick over Tiffany, Robyn over Kimmie and Brian, Christian over Jeremy/Danielle, Dan over Michael and Anthony over Zach, Gabriel over Richard, Ashley over Aaron, Fernando, Sterling and especially Santos over Roe, Christine over Sarah, Josh over Alison and Milly coming in 4th place whilst Michelle came in 3rd place seemingly only because Milly made some mistakes on the final black jacket service.It gets more stupid in the dinner services as Gordon very often throws a whole team out the kitchen when mistakes are coming off ONE station and ONE station only or an INCREDIBLY small minority of the team is making mistakes, you CAN'T do that in a professional kitchen as it's the equivalent of throwing in the towel. Starting from Season 4, Gordon has (once a season or two) forced a contestant (or two/three or even the entire team on two occasions by no fault of the majority's own) to entirely eat a poorly prepared food rather than telling them to taste it and move it. Starting from Season 2, Gordon would sometimes take a contestant to the pantry as a way of warning them to wake up and for the majority of the time, he used it well. Starting from Season 13 however, Gordon would take the WHOLE TEAM to the pantry rather than the one/two individual(s) screwing up and inexplicably telling them to have a meeting, he did this twice before in Season 10 and 12 but it was nowhere near as stupid and common as this. It gives me reasons to assume that Gordon is deliberately doing these stupid things for certain reasons. 1. Gordon has developed an ego where he thinks that "Well it's my kitchen, my show so I can do whatever I want with these people." 2. He just wants to please his audiences by doing this as it can be very entertaining 3. It is a ratings ploy by FOX who are telling him to deliberately do these stupid things 4. Gordon just doesn't know how to make a right decision 5. He's does these moronic things he is now doing in Hell's Kitchen to make the contestant screwing up feel even worse for what they did. Whatever it is, Gordon really needs to bring the show back to it's Season 1-5/6 roots.
doug_lusby Year after year, this show looks exactly the same with the same "twists," the same band of witless cooks (how can any of these people actually do a good job where they're supposed to wind up if they win?), and the same mistakes, over and over and over... "You've burned the risotto! How can you be so #%$#$ stupid?" Or: "The risotto is soupy and has no salt!" Or "The beef wellington is raw!" And on and on and on, ad nauseum.... I only watch this show because my wife does, but it 's becoming more and more torturous to do so. A good acronym for this show is A-S-S: Always the Same S#@*. Because you're going to hear a cuss word on the show about every 15 seconds; you can set your watch by that. The "goodnight" from Ramsey will always be "P#@$ off." And there will always be terribly overweight cooks dripping sweat into their dishes as predictably as getting bad pizza at Chucke Cheese. Ugly people abound on this show more so than on any other. And it's not just physical. I would swear that every cook was brimming with hatred and bitterness toward all of their fellow human beings if I only watched this show. Being stuck watching this show because of a spouse is in itself "Hell."
ef_tee_double-u This show used to have honest, hard working chefs who cared about the competition above all else. There was a touch of drama to keep the show spicy, but at the end of the day I respected the chefs.Season ten contestants are shameful to say the least. Drama has become the front runner in an untamed season.I have not felt any heart, passion, or integrity as of late and I can't sift through the drama to find the competition of Hell's Kitchen.If you haven't seen this show, I recommend starting from Season one, and continue through season 9. I think you will find a terrific cooking competition (I always call it Survivor for cooks) that is worth the time it takes to watch it.However, I am on the brink of discontinuing this show from my viewing list. I may be able to bear the rest of season ten, but if season eleven is like season ten, then I will have to hang up my apron.Make no mistake, Gordon Ramsay is spectacular. He is the only thing making this season watchable. But if things don't get better fast, my rating will drop further, and I will just have to stick with Master Chef (which is still awesome).