Gordon Ramsey’s American Train Wreck #
Alex Koppelman’s essay isn’t exactly new news, but he says it admirably and it’s a point I like hearing:
The new season of Fox’s reality show “Hell’s Kitchen,” starring Ramsay, kicks off Tuesday night. It’s a show that seems deliberately designed to waste Ramsay’s considerable talents both as a chef and as a television personality by having him send inexperienced, talentlesscooks through a particularly dull meat grinder. Ramsay and Fox give these poor saps simple kitchen tasks that are obviously way above their skill level, presumably in the hope they’ll fail. And then, joy of joys, Ramsay gets to turn insincerely red-faced and yell.
For the record: despite it’s massive, glaring, almost intolerable, flaws I do have a season pass to Hell’s Kitchen on the TiVo.