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I'm not really a fan of many of the American versions of his shows, tbh - they all seem so overproduced, glossy to the point where you would slip over on them, full of needless crescendos, talking heads to the camera to explain practically every single scene, and melodramatically replaying moments over and over again like it's a controversial moment in a sports match - often all of these married up with really deceptive editing, ie Gordon takes a mouthful, then looks up at the chef and says "Hey!" - they throw in a really dramatic piece of music, have lots of reaction shots of random people looking up in terror, cut to commercial, come back, whack in an insane sounding commentator trying to ear fuck us as he says "During a dramatic service, Gordon has tried a green bean!", replay him eating it, replay him saying "Hey!", have a talking head where the chef says "Gordon just ate my bean, right now I'm scared, if this isn't right then it's all over for this restaurant...", only for Gordon to say - several minutes of screen time after he took a taste - "that's good, send it out "

The only one I can stomach is Hell's Kitchen - ironically because it's by far the most guilty of all this nonsense, but it does it to such an overblown extent that it transcends being terrible and becomes almost art. Like the way they'll recap the previous episode with the commentator (who in this case sounds like he should be narrating a late night advert for sex toys) saying "After an intense night, it was-" *cut to a one second clip of Gordon saying "Bob"* "-who went home." It's like it's its own self-parody, haha.