Watching Reality TV

I’m not going to go into a big recap of “The Biggest Loser” from Tuesday night simply because my attention that night was held by “Big Brother” and while I did record the last half hour, I didn’t jot down any specific notes while I was watching.  I will say this: the red team has ISSUES.  Kim had better get those folks going is all I can say.  The blue team rocks and I kinda adore all of them.  They’ve been working hard and it shows.  And the black team.  What can you say about the black team?  Jillian scares me.  But I love how they came back and I love how they pretty much just smoked the other teams.  That was awesome.  I’m looking forward to the weeks ahead, to see what becomes of these people.  It’s fascinating to watch and definitely one of the better reality shows on television.  I agreed that Lezlye needed to go this week, perhaps more than Amy.  Certainly more than Phil.  What were they thinking?  I just have a feeling the red team is going to continue this downward spiral until they’re absorbed by the remaining teams.  At any rate, expect that I’ll be back to recapping this show in full style starting next week.

Onto other news: Did anyone catch “Kitchen Nightmares” last night?  Was it not FABULOUS?  Something that I always felt kept me from completely enjoying Gordon’s acerbity in “Hell’s Kitchen” was the fact that it often felt like his berating of the contestants was akin to leading lambs to slaughter.  However, in this new show, he’s more evenly matched among egos nearly as big as his.  BIGGER in some cases, like last night’s Peter.  That guy was a piece of work.  I actually thought Gordon went extremely easy on him and everyone else (but him especially).  It’s a fascinating show.  If you aren’t aware, basically Gordon is sent to these ailing restaurants to see what needs to be changed and to basically whip them back into shape.  I found it highly entertaining and will definitely be tuning in next week for more fun.

I didn’t discover “Hell’s Kitchen” until about halfway through the second season. But from the first moment, I was HOOKED. Watching the strangely enigmatic Ramsay berate and humiliate his chefs was high, high entertainment. Now, we get an another chance to watch him rain on someone’s parade; Fox is coming out with a new reality series called “Kitchen Nightmares” which will follow Ramsay around America to help restaurants who are having problems getting their act together.

According to the article at Reality TV World,

Each Kitchen Nightmares episode will see Ramsay visit a different struggling American food establishment. After arriving at the restaurant in crisis, Ramsay will motivate the owners and bully the kitchen’s brigade in an attempt to reverse the fortunes of each struggling restaurant in just one week. Whether he’ll save them from their current nightmare or just create a new one will depend on how the establishment’s lazy cooks and moody wait staff respond.

That there sounds like some good television to me. “Kitchen Nightmares” goes into production in February and I’m assuming will be airing later on this year. Also, season 3 of “Hell’s Kitchen” will air this spring.

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