My Kitchen Rules

Unfortunately it has turned into an amateur pantomime.

I love that there are multiple seasons. So many episodes. Could be condensed somewhat. I'm sure casting has been told to include controversial and outspoken people, but I find it uncomfortable. Some people are difficult to look at; so augmented. There are a few that may be low IQ or mentally off. I hope they have not regretted being portrayed as they are for all to see. Editing is intense in the show to build anticipation or to accentuate conflict. I don't like when good cooks are given low scores just because people are jealous or strategic. I have learned a few cooking techniques. The judging seems harsh at times and may lean toward favored teams. Sometimes I have it on just as background while I cook. It is difficult to watch when it pauses (when commercial breaks were on tv) and then comes back on and backtracks a few seconds. Do NOT like the commentator. Lots of repetition and unnecessary explanation by the commentator and given to the cooks to verbalize. It is somewhat scripted.

I've watched this since it started years ago. At first there were reasonably minor dramas but the cooking was the star. As the years went on it went down hill to the point that there are dramas every night. The contestants are voting strategically and throughout the dramas the judges do.......nothing. Are they actually there when they yell and call each other names? I can only guess that the contestants are selected for drama value and b****iness. How disappointing. Every night someone threatens to leave, how did this ever become entertaining? It isn't. Get rid of the narrator for a start, his voice is aggravating and makes me cringe every time I hear him. The music started at the beginning show casing the latest music and really added to the value of the production. This season (7) it's just silly and dramatic. I love cooking shows and hold Masterchef Australia up as the level all cooking shows should aim for. Maybe the producers and writers should watch that and see why it is the top cooking show on TV right now. No dramas, no stupidity and no idiot narrators. Great way to show Australians in their natural habitat I guess. And it's a 4 from me.

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.

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.