My Kitchen Rules

Unfortunately it has turned into an amateur pantomime.

I like this show.

I like pretty much any TV show that deals with food. The only "reality" shows I watch are the ones revolving around food. Why? I'm interested in food. I own a bookshelf full of cookbooks. While I find cooking shows more informative than the reality food competitions I still find them interesting because I get cooking ideas from them all. So maybe it's rigged, I like trying to figure out what I would do with x ingredient and x set of rules if I were that person. It is the same for me with Chopped, Masterchef, Top Chef, Come Dine with Me, etc.

I also like the accents and the travel aspect of the show. It tours around Australia and now also New Zealand and lets you enjoy some pretty wonderful scenery and even if it IS scripted I am sure the script is at least loosely based on their actual personal lives. Other shows are completely scripted because they are complete fiction. Do we say "I won't watch Elementary, or Backstrom, or X-Files because the whole thing is fixed?

It might not be quite as entertaining as watching Julia Child cook a chicken, but I like it and am waiting eagerly for season 6 to appear on Gusto!

The latest series of MKR has just started. It has again shown that it is not a show about cooking, but a cheaply made soap opera with cooking as a backdrop. Once again two of the contestants are rude and insulting prompting the others to be offended. Recycled annual scenario. Unless you're into cheap melodrama forget this show.

While I have enjoyed nearly every episode up to season 8, the last 2 seasons is all about cheap sensationalism. There are some talented contestants who deserved a place, but the focus now seems to be on arrogant, disruptive and pompous contestants who have not a shred of culinary talent, but who remain in the series solely fpr the cheap drama. MKR is rigged in the favor of maintaining controversy. The organisers and producers should be ashamed of them selves. This show has gone downhill faster that an Olympic skier.

This show has degenerated since its inception. The show ostensibly is about contestants cooking skills being judged over several weeks and a winner named. However, now it is just the soap opera style dramatics of the interactions between the contestants.