Guy's Chance of a Lifetime

Bad people. Blow hards. One person in particular, bla bla my kid this, my Kid that. Total turnoff and nobody cares

This is bad comedy. Not even bad reality tv, it certainly isn't about cooking like grocery games or diner drives and dives. Stick to that if you value what food networks programming is supposed to be. Don't give this crap the eyeballs.

The concept is not that bad, but I refuse to believe these drama queens and kings are the best they could find in thousands of applications. This is like a dreadful cross between Housewives of Atlanta and Chopped. I'm embarrassed for Guy Fieri to have his name on it. Should have been called The Eboni Show.

Worst show Guy has made. Did network needs to quit making show that have off the wall characters and actually go back to making shows that have people that know how to cook.

Silly premise notwithstanding, it's about gathering a diverse group of ridiculous characters with limited talent. Ultimately, it has very little about actual cooking, but more of a comidic farse. One of the msny reasons that the Food Network has lost so.much credibility over the years.

I expected this to be The Apprentice with Guy Fieri as Donald Trump, and that's pretty much what I got. Basically, Guy is looking for someone who will be a franchisee of one of his Chicken Guy (exclamation point!) joints. Apparently, getting a Chicken Guy franchise is a big deal. (They didn't say whether the winner will have to put up the same amount of cash as a normal franchisee. The "prize" could turn out to be about as desirable as a job working for Trump.)

Like The Apprentice, this show has a group of go-getters vying for the boss's approval. The "judges" are Guy, various business associates and chefs, and (for some reason that escapes me) his son Hunter, who seems like a decent kid just humoring a dad with an outsized personality. Guy subjects the contestants to challenges designed to find out whether they have what it takes and to make them feel inadequate. The only difference from The Apprentice, as far as I can see so far, is that someone doesn't get "fired" at the end of each episode. I guess they all stick around to the end. But they do get paid varying "salaries" each week based on how well or poorly they "performed."

The first episode introduced the kinds of characters we've become used to in "reality" game shows -- the ex-military iron man, the brown-noser, the screw-up, the jerk, etc. And most of that, I assume, is the creation of the editors, with no connection to who these people really are.

So I got what I expected, and I was entertained. I expect I'll watch the whole series. Unlike many people, I find Guy amusing. It looks like the challenges will result in some moments of relatively natural drama. And if the show makes good use of the "judges," their comments should be interesting.