Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend

It's as if the producers never watched the original. The hook of the originals was that the challengers were portrayed as David vs Goliath. There's nothing Goliath or godlike about the iron chefs. It's a court with no kings or queens, and too many jesters.

Most of the people on this show were also on other cooking shows. Alton Brown had a Blue's Clues type cooking show that was kind of fun; Andrew Zimmern had Bizarre Foods; Kristen Kish has her "Fast Foodies"... All of them are personable and fun to watch.

The cooking is shown at a higher level, not recipes but concepts. And, the competition never gets any more heated than "friendly". Yeah, it has its flaws but overall it is a fun watch.

But, I may be a bit prejudiced after seeing the great Danny Trejo as one of the guest judges...

Great concept, annoying chairman big deal, I think it's kind of stupid but entertaining. Love the show currently hooked on it. My main issue is that these judges are awful at doing their job and the female co host seems very clueless at times constantly pestering chefs for information that she should know as a host on this very prestigious show. Other than that, I can't complain. I'm have been very enthralled and entertained so far.

First thing first - Alton Brown is a God among men. I've loved everything he did on Food TV, and his stint here on Netflix isn't any different. He's a walking encyclopedia of food.

Perhaps because of that, Kristen Kish pales by comparison. She seems out of her depth. I'm not sure she's up to the level of Alton or even the other judges to be on this show. Overall, I like it as much as the other Iron Chef shows. Very entertaining and educational as well.

What is with so many American shows that they can't use a camera without purposefully bouncing it around to create tension?

All it does is give me a headache and make it impossible to watch.

Getting past that to actually enjoy the rest of the show was virtually impossible.