andrewrye-06535 I've watched this since it started years ago. At first there were reasonably minor dramas but the cooking was the star. As the years went on it went down hill to the point that there are dramas every night. The contestants are voting strategically and throughout the dramas the judges do.......nothing. Are they actually there when they yell and call each other names? I can only guess that the contestants are selected for drama value and b****iness. How disappointing. Every night someone threatens to leave, how did this ever become entertaining? It isn't. Get rid of the narrator for a start, his voice is aggravating and makes me cringe every time I hear him. The music started at the beginning show casing the latest music and really added to the value of the production. This season (7) it's just silly and dramatic. I love cooking shows and hold Masterchef Australia up as the level all cooking shows should aim for. Maybe the producers and writers should watch that and see why it is the top cooking show on TV right now. No dramas, no stupidity and no idiot narrators. Great way to show Australians in their natural habitat I guess. And it's a 4 from me.

dclarke-28979 This is a very disappointing series. It's not a show for foodies or wannabe cooks, but it is about the personalities. For the past two seasons, I've wondered how the judges actually selected the winners. Very subjective and disappointing.

susancvan I like this show.I like pretty much any TV show that deals with food. The only "reality" shows I watch are the ones revolving around food. Why? I'm interested in food. I own a bookshelf full of cookbooks. While I find cooking shows more informative than the reality food competitions I still find them interesting because I get cooking ideas from them all. So maybe it's rigged, I like trying to figure out what I would do with x ingredient and x set of rules if I were that person. It is the same for me with Chopped, Masterchef, Top Chef, Come Dine with Me, etc.I also like the accents and the travel aspect of the show. It tours around Australia and now also New Zealand and lets you enjoy some pretty wonderful scenery and even if it IS scripted I am sure the script is at least loosely based on their actual personal lives. Other shows are completely scripted because they are complete fiction. Do we say "I won't watch Elementary, or Backstrom, or X-Files because the whole thing is fixed? It might not be quite as entertaining as watching Julia Child cook a chicken, but I like it and am waiting eagerly for season 6 to appear on Gusto!

WakenPayne Okay, yet ANOTHER TV Show from Australia that panders to the lowest common denominator. This is a show that is pretty much the same thing as dozens of other shows out there (probably because the seasons of one show are run in between another so fans can say they have something to do). What makes this as bad as I say? Well I'm glad you asked.The show is basically a cooking show... No not how you can cook something, then I might see something I can see people enjoying in it. But a contest where you have people that people can get behind and the villains (I'll get to them later because I have a lot to say) They are judged by the food equivalent of CinemaSins (You know, those guys that pick apart EVERYTHING as opposed to just enjoying what they like) They continue cooking dishes and then win the contest.Okay the biggest complaint is the villains. The villains in an episode of The Secret World Of Alex Mack seem subtle compared to this, and that was a Nickelodeon show made in the mid 90's (At least they have more defined characters). I have even seen articles out from the people they were making out were bad guys talking about how everything was either edited together to show very different reactions to things instead of their actual reactions, or have stuff taken out of context among other stuff and the people who watch this show will remember them like that and have the reputations of the "villains" destroyed.Okay, here's the thing - you want to make a show that is pretty much a contest of people cooking and living up to their lifelong dreams - Okay it doesn't sound like my sort of thing. Want to portray people in an overly competitive nature? That's fine but DO IT AS AN ADULT! Not in such a manipulative way that portrays people being the contest as demonic.The emotional manipulation of this show is beyond pathetic. Every single time they want you to feel something they don't just, I don't know - have the viewers feel it for themselves. They put in emotional manipulation, If they want you to feel sad they play sad music and the same thing happens with EVERYTHING ELSE. Maybe not music bu usually some form of editing the sound is in this show to force the viewer to feel the emotion they want you to feel. Something like... A dish the cooks made falls over due to an accident - Couldn't that alone make people feel something if they were invested? I mean if you DON'T put in any sad music over it and just show that their dreams might not be fulfilled.So this is pretty much "reality" crap. This is the last reality show or contest show I'm going to review, I don't know why I watch something that was made just to go cheap on never hiring actors or writers that has somehow turned into the dumbest of all fads, I hope it dies out. Unless you want the most contrived, forced and manipulative thing ever to hit Australian television then stay away from this one. If you read into it, there will be something that tells you how much they do manipulate and fabricate.