My Kitchen Rules

Watched the entire 2019 season and was glad who won But the arrogance & pettiness of the runner up made it a terrible season. Then the producers brought him back in 2020 which I'm glad I stopped watching after episode 2.

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.

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!

There's nothing more than I'd like than to watch regular tv with my wife in the evenings as opposed to splitting into separate rooms to watch Netflix. We loved this show over the years but now Netflix is slowly pulling us away. Sorry Pete and Manu, but the cooking gig is fading away.