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Nancy2 > wrote:

> > OK, I've seen this show twice and to tell you the truth I wasn't
> > watching it with both eyes but that's how I watch tv. *As far as I
> > could tell, the chefs were pretty good at instructing their teams in
> > basic technique and directed them from the observation box without
> > intimidation. *Frankly, the chefs seemed to be reminding their teams a
> > lot about cooking 101, which is read the *entire* recipe first and
> > wash your hands. *Nobody was yelled at and there didn't seem to be any
> > pressure, so I don't understand why some team members fell apart. *I
> > think they were just being drama queens.

I suspect that not only were the two shows you watched not enough to
figure out what was going on, but that you watched the later shows,
where they had already eliminated the worst of the worst, by yelling at
them and making fun of them, and generally trying to make them fall
apart and FAIL.

> I thought Anne Burrell was the master of negativity. She made fun of
> most of her team at one time or another; made stupid faces at them
> like a teenager; over-reacted like a ham actor, and generally acted
> like a juvenile. She totally turned me off the program, which didn't
> take much, because who wants to watch failure?

Lots of people seem to want to watch failure. I think that is the
specialty of reality shows.

> I love reality competition programs where a person can learn something
> or see something new - this show, not so much.

Yeah. I only watched it because my wife and daughter had it on, and I'm
not good at ignoring tv. Still, sometimes I went to bed early so I
didn't have to see it all.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA