Next Level Chef

I love the concept, but the editing makes it so disorienting no one can follow it. It's such a cool concept (stolen from a Netflix movie), but the awful editing style makes it unwatchable. I wanted to like this, but after 3 episodes I had to give up. It gave me a headache. It's awful. Sorry, Gordan, this is a huge flop.

The battle between the established chefs and the competition between the contestants makes next level fun to watch. Looking forward to the next episode.

I'll cut to the chase. I'm reviewing this halfway through Season 2. Read through a bunch of the 1-5 star reviews on IMDB and consider my review an emphatic Ditto! It seems that the producers failed to take into account the public perception of Season 1, to wit, the opinions here, and just carried on with the same bland, un-interesting, hyped-up, utterly lacking in drama or , heaven forbid, cooking prowess. These are average cooks with maybe 1 or 2 exceptions,cooking average food and the great chef hosts are jumping up and down trying to put lipstick on a pig to try to keep what is a giant yawn interesting. It is vapid, vacuous, and virtually pointless. Save yourself a little time and go watch a re-run of IronChef, the original, in Japanese, and watch that. You may not understand a thing they say but you will be infinitely more entertained if it is a cooking competition you're after. The bottom line, this show is Ramsay trying to make something out of nothing and failing abysmally.

The show is decent- good entertainment- I enjoy the cooking aspect of it and the speed in which they make excellent quality dishes...

but saying "LET'S GO" 53 times in one 40-minute episode is borderline insane and enough to make one question cancelling their subscription to any and all streaming television services as well as consider permanently getting rid of their tv entirely. Even worse when it's not being used to express the desire for actual speed but instead in the trendy language social-media TikTok Instagram Gen-Z colloquial sense with a drawn out emphasis on the "o" to celebrate a victory or accomplished feat. See given example:

Chef: "You have won this week's top dish." Contestant: "LET'S GOOOOOOO!"

Each time I hear this, my elder Millennial brain wants to Poltergeist into the tv-set and somehow back in time to the point of filming to sarcastically both inform and ask the contestant- "You already went. Why do you still feel the need to go?"

Yes, perhaps this all indicates my steadily increasing age and continuous rejection of younger pop-culture but I'll say it again: 53 times.

FIFTY. THREE.

I counted.

I thought the writer's strike was over? Apparently it's blistering fire is still raging in full force, for this is the only acceptable explanation short of the crew assembling a college-level drinking game for their audience that could possibly deem the gratuitous use of only two English words instead of LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE, acceptable.

Despite my frustrations from my initial encounter with this thesaurus-less reality based television cooking contest, I've shamefully continued watching episodes in hopes the actual cooking content would outweigh the writer's/producer's/director's lack of vocal creativity- only to be let down and exposed to even MORE careless and continual use of the two words that now make me want to GO- straight to the corporate headquarters of Fox Broadcasting Company to file a professionally written 20+ page complaint while simultaneously initiating a petition at Change.org with the shared goal of altering this egregious overuse of a casual term in an effort to save society's eardrums.

Writing this unfortunate and painstakingly detailed review has shaved just under an hour off of my life and undoubtedly made me hungry and feel the need to cook something, however as I am currently out of groceries I'll need to proceed to my nearest local store first-

Let's go.

Love the creation of the platform and three tiers of kitchens. Adds RNG aspects to a reality tv show.

Pros

• hype for fans of The Platform
• pokemon-like atmosphere where the judges build their own 5 person team
• 1 on 1 dual for those who make the least appetizing dish, team immunity for for the winning dish

Cons

• 30 seconds to pick ingredients as the platform drops seems quite limiting
• bias for team captains in determining winning dish + bias during final decisions for 1:1 given not a blind taste test.