There was a time when I just adored Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, but eventually I got fed up with it for being obnoxious and predictable, as in being able to set your watch to when a particular show will reach certain milestones, such as Gordon abruptly ceasing to be monstrous, and becoming, well, recognizably human.
I noticed something different in this latest season.
In the first season he would spend three days, or so it seemed.
Now he spends a week, edited into an hour of 'fuckin hell, which is what people want to see.
We don't see all of the work, the transactions, the behavioral modification that has been going on.
Aren't people suspicious that Ramsay can overnight transform a restaurant, pots, pans, stoves, decor,paint and all overnight into a modern establishment. Just ordering the new stoves, refrigerators and ovens, not to mention fryers, pots and pans would take weeks
His producers have done advance work, there is a semi trailer with all of the new equipment waiting, and there is an interior designer that has done the work, and ordered all of the accessories, tables, chairs needed and waiting in another semi trailer.
Then there is the professional help, needed for an attitude and behavioral adjustment on part of the Owners and the chef, and if the chef is beyond reach, then he or she is exited.
There is a lot going on in that week, edited to one hour for eyeballs, which of course is advertisement, which is the lifeblood of TV.
Good gravy. I'm up too early and Ramsay is too much to stomach. I do agree, though. Once upon a time (and we're still friends) I would tell my ex that we're the horrible and miserable--I was miserable. :D
Ramsay is horrible; not sorry I quit watching. I miss Julia Child.
I noticed something different in this latest season.
In the first season he would spend three days, or so it seemed.
Now he spends a week, edited into an hour of 'fuckin hell, which is what people want to see.
We don't see all of the work, the transactions, the behavioral modification that has been going on.
Aren't people suspicious that Ramsay can overnight transform a restaurant, pots, pans, stoves, decor,paint and all overnight into a modern establishment. Just ordering the new stoves, refrigerators and ovens, not to mention fryers, pots and pans would take weeks
His producers have done advance work, there is a semi trailer with all of the new equipment waiting, and there is an interior designer that has done the work, and ordered all of the accessories, tables, chairs needed and waiting in another semi trailer.
Then there is the professional help, needed for an attitude and behavioral adjustment on part of the Owners and the chef, and if the chef is beyond reach, then he or she is exited.
There is a lot going on in that week, edited to one hour for eyeballs, which of course is advertisement, which is the lifeblood of TV.
Good gravy. I'm up too early and Ramsay is too much to stomach. I do agree, though. Once upon a time (and we're still friends) I would tell my ex that we're the horrible and miserable--I was miserable. :D
Ramsay is horrible; not sorry I quit watching. I miss Julia Child.