The Chopping Block

Chopped by the paint by numbers crowd. Too bad. I was really interested in this series. I couldn't believe it got cut. This was way before I personally watched anything of Gordon Ramsey. I thought White was an interesting character and the premise of this show has never been done before or since, that I know of. You can tell the only low star reviews are from Ramsay fans who think White was too sexy to be on.

When voting on this show, I really felt that I was overrating it by giving it a 1.

How can anyone even think that this show has any resemblance to the brilliant Gordon Ramsay's shows??? Chef Ramsay teaches. Marco White criticizes. Chef Ramsay demonstrates a passionate love for cooking. Marco White certainly does not, from what I saw. Chef Ramsay educates the viewing audience. Marco White does not. Chef Ramsay uses intensity to push his chefs to greater culinary excellence. Marco White seems to thoroughly enjoy demeaning, belittling and demoralizing the chefs on his show.

I am so glad that this pompous man impersonating a chef had his show canceled.

Just a question: was I the only one who saw Marco White sitting down with his legs crossed? I couldn't tell if he was wearing skin-tight ugly mustard-yellow socks or if he had no socks on. Second show I saw that it was his bare skin. UGGGGHHHHH.

All I can say is, OH MY GOD. How did this make it to air!!! Seems like all the people who went thru the test screening all tuned out in under 20 minutes. I lasted 7 minutes before tuning out and my friend made it to 11 minutes. But we had to sit there and be tortured by watching the remaining test screening. Hit the green button with your left thumb if you like what you see or hit the red button with your right thumb if you do not like what you see. Put it this way, my right thumb needed to be iced down after hitting that damn red button so much. Watching this felt like watching a train wreck waiting to happen ....but never happening.

It seems like I'm in the minority but I liked this show better than Hell's Kitchen. I thought it had some more unique ways of challenging the contestants, and I love how Marco didn't have to scream and go crazy like Gordon. Don't get me wrong, I've seen just about all of Hell's Kitchen and loved it, but this show felt like a breath of fresh air to me. I'm disappointed it was never & will never be continued, but it was really fun to watch. I think if this were given more seasons it could've evolved more too. Oh well, despite the many negative reviews on the internet, I really enjoyed this show.