1) This show is completely tone-deaf to the current climate.
2) All of the contestants are completely mad.
Also, the idea that Sugar (who I can't help liking) is some sort of global tycoon, who flies his helicopter into work every morning to his office in Canary Wharf... Sugar's business these days is managing property, his office is in Essex, the "dream job" is a glorified estate agent.
I want the one where Gordon Ramsey sits alone in an empty restaurant, weeping and calling himslef a cunt.
When they all go at each other in the boardroom like cats, I feel bad for them. Not only does it not make zero sense (what boss would sit there and listen to all this bullshit in real life?) but it is extremely degrading to humanity generally. Can't someone just say: "I made the following three mistakes, for which I take full responsibility." That would be impressive.
Also, the idea that Sugar (who I can't help liking) is some sort of global tycoon, who flies his helicopter into work every morning to his office in Canary Wharf... Sugar's business these days is managing property, his office is in Essex, the "dream job" is a glorified estate agent.
I note also that I find the show strangely compelling.
I assumed his main income these days was from celebrity and that the dream job would be glorified PA. Reality TV needs to get up to pace - half the TV chefs are having to close their restaurants. I want the one where Gordon Ramsey sits alone in an empty restaurant, weeping and calling himslef a cunt.
Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares is all about failure. That's why it's so brilliant.
My favourite bit in the last series was when the teams were sent to a market in Morocco to buy a list of items, one of which was a kosher chicken... One team had no idea what kosher meant and ended up getting a Muslim butcher to 'bless' the chicken. All well and good, except the mouthiest guy on that team also happened to be Jewish...
The best bits about that were a) they kept asking locals really loudly for 'a HOLY MAN'; 'can you tell us where we'd find a HOLY MAN'. Whichever one you think it relates to, Judaism or Islam are both huge Abrahamic faiths, you aren't really looking for a 'holy man', and b) the way they told Alan Sugar that a geezer had said a prayer to Allah over the chicken and Sir Alan bellowed "'OO!?", as though they'd told him someone said a prayer to Derek or Sheila, or someone else he'd never heard of, over it.
The food ones are always the awesomest because they best highlight the gulf between how sophisticated the contestants actually are and how sophisticated they think they are.