Fezziwig Anonymous

I tried with this show, I really did, because Top Chef was ending, but I just can't take it. The personalities are just too nauseating.

2 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

DC Anonymous

1) Her nose is SO STRAIGHT 2) Could we also please refer to Cat bitches show as Iron Chef America as to allow proper aging for the real chairman?

2 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

RC_DALLAS Anonymous

Agreed -- this seasons Next Network Star is not only nauseating - its now become just plain stupid. Never before has reality TV sunk so low and put together such a lovely banquet of emotionally bankrupt and emotionally crippled characters. Its not even on the level of 'TV you love to hate' anymore -- Does anyone else (including you Ms. Gubbins) agree that:

a. The food looks worse and worse each week.

b. These future food "stars" are all but illiterate and we're not just talkin' culinary knowledge either.

c. The judges are constantly exhorting the cast members, especially the 'feel my desperation & cry on cue Moaner Lisa', to "try and not come across so false in front of the camera but try instead to work on being more genuine". God Pleeez - just shoot us all now! Remember on the first episode when then judge Alton Brown saw straight thru the false crap and even called a couple of people out on it too, if anyone else caught that. How fortuitous for those viewers who listened to him and never returned. I unfortunately wasn't one who listened.

Guess that means that the only honest thing on the show is the camera lens itself. Give me a f'ing break! I'm sorry, but this Next Food Network Star show really sucks and everyone connected with this mess should absolutely be embarrassed.

And shame on the Food Network boys too. Anthony Bourdain and chef Mario Batali are quite correct in their public disgust with the current Food Network direction. Those two have publically stated that it's no longer honorable to be associated with it anymore.

This in my opinion is unfortunate, so for now I'll be quiet and close with this -- I think that even tho she ultimately lost on Top Chef, Food Network TV should have handed Dallas chef Casey Thompson her own show right then and there, kissed her feet, given her a major Food TV contract, and saved us from this current load of odious baloney. That lady had class pal -- endo story.

2 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

capteucalyptus Anonymous

I watched this the first season and that was it. I did check out a few of these recent episodes and am glad that it is no longer a part of my TV diet.

I'm also distressed with the state of the network.

Where are the shows that help us cook? This is like when MTV stopped playing music.

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