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Hell's Kitchen Season 6
Belle Book:
--- Quote from: apskip on July 22, 2009, 06:26:07 PM ---I watched the first 2 episodes of HK6 last night. There are rumors that this cast has the most skills of any HK cast ever. I must admit that I did not observe that. Their first-night perfcormance was ludicrous. What the Blue team does have is high testosterone. We were treated to what looked like a fake staged confrontation between Jean- Pierre and Van, then a serious one with Joseph challenging Gordon Ramsay to a brawl in the parking lot. There are not the type of challenges that make Hell's Kitchen worth watching! The ToBeContinued happened before there was any closure on the brawl. I have to guess that Joseph either figures out or is told by other Blue team members that beating up Gordon Ramsay is not the way to a $250,000 salary. Not that Joseph would ever be considered real potential for it, because he wouldn't. Van might but he is not going to lasty long in HK6.
I am going to classify the members of each team into losers, don't know, and winners:
RED
Losers - Melinda, Lovely, Amanda
Don't Know - Suzanne, Sabrina, Ariel, Robert
Winners(it is too soon to really tell so this is my best guess) - Tek, Tennille
It would be nice to put Robert in the winner's circle, but he just doesn't deserve it. He may last a long time, but he will not win HK6.
BLUE
Losers - Louis(already gone), Joseph and Van (note- Joseph and Van are too stupid to understand kitchen hierarchy even though they may have undiscovered skills)
Don't Know - Andy, Dave, Tony, Jim, Kevin
Winners - it's too soon to rate any here
This is a bit premature, but after they clear out their weak performers the RED team should allow multiple from the Don't Know category to blossom into Winners. For the BLUE I expect the same process with fewer total entries in the Winners category. We'll see.
The singature dish challenge can't be beat any time. I hate to mention this, but it's just like how Top Chef, a vastly superior food show, would do it. The shrimp cleaning challenge is also one worthy of being on Top Chef, the ultimate standard. I found the "cook your signature dish" classic and any chef not ready for that at the beginning is a fool. The shrimp cleaning challenge in ep. 2 was also a good one. I loved seeing pounds of shrimp fall out of the ceiling and (mostly) in the vat on the table.
I think there is too much staged B.S. for this show to be ultimately a total success. In episode 2 there was the Van vs. JP incident and the "pregnant woman gets questionable shrimp" appeared to be equally phony. I will continue to watch Hell's Kitchen because it's fun to write about, but I might not if writing were not an issue.
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Actually, I'd put Tennille in the Don't Know category and maybe Ariel in the Winners one. Other than that, I agree with you.
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KitKat:
I loved it. This season of Hell's Kitchen is going to be awesome!
Queenycastle:
I just can't get over Joseph wanting to fight Gordon! Thats just insane! WOW. :meow:
apskip:
The fact that Joseph does not understand how insane that is is incredible. He's all caught up in his macho persona and has missed the fact that the head chef totally controls the lives of everyone in that kitchen. If you don't like it you get out, but you cannot fight it.
TexasLady:
Joseph must not have ever watched HK. Ramsay asks people to give the names and reasons for the people chosen to be eliminated for a reason. It's a process by which I believe he sees who is a leader and who isn't. Joseph failed miserably.
I must say we are off with a bang this season! I don't like the staged events either. Just let the show proceed!
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