Kitchen Nightmares

Kitchen Nightmares http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:22:17 -0500 10 <![CDATA[1-2: "Dillons" 2007.09.26]]> http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3159270

Chef Ramsay tries to revamp an Indian restaurant just steps away from his own New York restaurant.

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Chef Ramsay tries to improve a small, family-run Italian restaurant in Babylon, N.Y., but faces a hot-tempered "Godfather'' wannabe.

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Chef Ramsay visits a chaotic Burbank, Calif., restaurant and goes head-to-head with the owner to simplify the menu.

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Gordon tries to help a woman and her son, who are running their Islip, N.Y., restaurant into the ground.

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When Gordon visits a Westhampton, N.Y., restaurant where the head chef, the owner's son, makes everyone unhappy, he makes drastic changes that could affect the family forever.

I find myself somewhat disappointed they didn't spell the restaurant name Fionn mac Cumhaill’s.]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:26:42 -0500 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3161782 <![CDATA[1-5: "Olde Stone Mill" 2007.10.17]]> http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3160563

Chef Gordon Ramsay works his magic on a New York state eatery that has been renovated but still has horrible service and food.

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Chef Ramsay must make many changes to a small restaurant in Bellmore, N.Y., to keep it afloat.

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Gordon tries to improve business for an upscale California restaurant in desperate need of clientele; the executive chef has a showdown with Gordon in front of the entire staff.

Just a reminder before the thread gets going this week: Episode threads need to stay focused on discussing the current episode. If discussion of editing, production, or other behind-the-scenes happenings on the show moves away from focus on this episode and becomes general discussion of the show as a whole, the conversation should go in the Network and Production thread. If discussion of how the episode compares to the U.K. version becomes general comparison of the show as a whole, the conversation should go to the U.K./U.S. Comparison thread. Thanks.]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:03:30 -0500 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3162091 UK/US Show Comparisons: Lost in Translation http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3159101 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and Fox's Kitchen Nightmares.

It was probably naive to hope that Fox wouldn't muck with the formula too much, but they really rely on easy storyline and over the top editing, whereas the original Kitchen Nightmares was actually fairly staid. The Fox version is less an American Version of Kitchen Nightmares and almost a food version of Extreme Makeover: Restaurant Edition.

Difference include but are not limited to the unnecessary narrator who tells you what you already seeing on screen, the endless flash images of the Most! Dramatic! Moments! while ignoring the minor adjustments of running a restaurant that he's still undoubtedly doing, the magical bequething of a new kitchen rather than making the restaurant owners make the tough decisions that will save their restaurant, and the lack of the fact finding that was a staple of the BBC version. Trying to figure out why exactly the restaurant was failing was something of a detective story, in which Ramsay had to pound the pavement and interview people on the street exactly what was keeping them from going to the joint. They might still be doing that, but they didn't show it in the first episode, at least.

What's the same? I actually believe much of Gordon's behavior is the same. It's just that they didn't show the nitty gritty work in favor of an idiot yelling at people. I think the nitty gritty work was done, coming up with a new menu and putting the cooks through their paces, but it wasn't the focus of the first episode.

I don't think the US version will ever be the UK version, but I really hope they tone down the theatrics a bit. A guy nearly drunk himself to death on the UK version with less Dramuh! than the idiot Italian Stereotype Peter.]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:57:52 -0400 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3159101