Hell’s Kitchen meets Top Chef

So, last season I put out a rather rambling diatribe about how far the once thoroughly interesting show “Top Chef” had fallen by putting out a bunch of hacks with drama instead of real chefs doing thought provoking things as we saw in seasons 1-3.  Season 4 was marginal at best (the only true bright spot: Richard Blais) and season 5 was, well, just awful.  In our vernacular, Season 5: No Beans.  So, now they’ve rolled out the line-up for season 6 and it just looks like an iteration of last season’s mostly talent free shoemakers.  They have seemingly hit every hot button demographic that seemed to provide so much drama on the screen but so little effect in the kitchen.

Sure, I’m interested in seeing what the Chef de Cuisine at 10 Arts by Eric Ripert can do (and no, not just because she’s hot), the CIA trained chef who works at Chef at Branzino in Seattle looks like she could have some chops (even thought the two CIA grads last year were the first two bounced) and there’s another two or so chefs that look interesting, but by and large I’m fairly certain you can flush those brothers from Maryland, the self-taught chef who lists her profession as “Chef, Artist and Teacher” and I can’t even imagine what kind of shit show that guy Mattin from Biarritz, France is going to be.

Anyway, I promise I won’t complain about it again, and against my will and better judgment I’ll likely watch the beginning episodes in the hopes I’m proven wrong about this, but Bravo doesn’t have a good track record on their side with this one.

Check it out here:   http://www.bravotv.com/whos-who-meet-the-chefs

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