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Carbonauts t1_j1orvrv wrote

I think Top Chef is the only cooking competition that takes itself and it’s audience seriously. It follows a lot of the narrative drama that you see in other shows but I feel like the cooking is always at the heart of the competition. It’s editing is actually restrained compared to something like Hell’s Kitchen and it actually seems to use it’s budget wisely.

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Writerhaha t1_j1p99jy wrote

Top Chef just rubs me the wrong way.

I love the technical elements of watching the best perform their craft at the highest level, but to me the amount of seriousness comes off like they’re trying to say “This is why we and our food are the most important things in the world” and comes off a bit snobby when you compare it to some of the Netflix things where it seems like the humility and dishes speak for themselves.

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