He’s doing Hell’s Kitchen and I’m going to beat his analysis right now. Hell’s Kitchen is an abuse gauntlet where proletariat compete for the opportunity to acquire what is, to the owners of the gauntlet, paltry change, and a job doing the same shit as the gauntlet but with you in charge. Hell’s Kitchen is Squid Game.

I swear every episode has a scene of Gordon retching because the fridge is full of rotting meat. I know this because the editors like to ham it up and play the same retch noise four or five times to really hammer the drama.

And of course the fridge is full of rotting meat because the owners buy way more supplies than their 3 customers / day turnaround can use, and they refuse to throw it out despite the chefs going “Hey uh if it weren’t 2009 and I need this job I’d call the health inspector on your ass”

The UK one is much the same but Kitchen Nightmares US is really a landmark in over-the-top editing, which is where I think a lot of the dislike comes in.

Owner says that their food is good. Smash cut to the food not being good. eeeee-whaaaaa waterphone sound plays for the 50th time this episode