Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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.

eyesbehindthemask-14-175130 I have NEVER missed an episode of Hell's Kitchen and will continue to be an avid watcher. Chef Ramsey has obviously named this show after himself because he is HELL in the kitchen and I love it!! I am a firm believer in 'tough love' if necessary to get the job done and tough love has proved to be necessary with some of these 'chef-etts'. This season is full of cry babies ie, Kasha... get over yourselves and "man up"! I refer to these "Chef's" as chef-etts because they have yet to even come near the point of being able to run one of Gordon's place's with his name and reputation on the line.Stop crying and pointing the finger, man/woman up and accept responsibility for your mistakes and correct them!!In regards to Kasha... all that screaming that you're doing is just a bunch of noise so shut the hell up, woman up and realize that right now you are NOT a leader!

ShelbyTMItchell Gordon Ramsey really gets paid like beyond ten figures to yell at and bully people. As that is what the show wants you to see. But he also makes Simon Cowell of American Idol out to be a cakewalk and a sweetheart.Ramsey may make the show believable by being a bully and a jerk. But still he just wants the best of the chefs. And wants to chefs to really have stamina on an 80+ work week.If they can turn their nightmares hence the title to the kitchen of their dreams and restaurant to own. I have seen some chefs that are weak that Ramsey at times deserves to get toughened up.And very few chefs that stand up to him. Like the Marine Joseph(think that is his name), as jerky as he was. Nearly causing a fight with Ramsey.Still Ramsey makes Simon look like a cakewalk.

I_saw_it_happen I started watching this show several years ago, when it was new (in America) and fell in love with it. It had a good first few seasons, But then it began to parody itself, and seemed to dumb itself down painfully. It became more about 'the characters' then food. The premise becomes hard to take seriously. At this point, each episode is perhaps 30% flashbacks from within the episode itself. It feels like filler--- which is good neither in food nor TV. Now, the announcer explains every five or so minutes that something incredible and brand new and never before done will happen... and the hype gets exhausting.I made the mistake of closing my eyes for a few minutes, just listening to the show as it played. It was laughable without the flashing camera back-and-forth. Loud, dramatic music with pounding drums, Ramsay screaming about "french fries oh god what the HELL is wrong with you oh you donkey NOOOOOOOOOO O Chef NOOOOOOOO (clanging pans) It's RAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWW CHEF! CHef O NOOOOOOOOOOO (louder drums) GET OUT! GET OUT! NOOOOOOOOOO. YOU moron, you can't COOK FRENCH FRIES JUST GET OUUUUUUT!...." Yeah, it gets silly.At a certain point, if Ramsay's letting people who deserve the verbal abuse he's giving them as deep into the series as he does, then the show's not realistic, unless it's not really about cooking. If it's not really about cooking, then it's just 'the Real World', maybe dumber.The season finales are always great big emotional releases... but it's becoming more and more painful to sit through a season to get there.