Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell

Back when this show was in its first season, I actually liked it. It seemed very different from other cooking competition shows. Anne seemed to actually want to help the chefs who were trying to get the positions at these restaurants. This season, though, there seems to be just way too much noise. Anne screaming at the chefs, the managers yelling at the chefs, the chefs shouting at the rest of the kitchen...not to mention the occasional scream of frustration from the chefs (one of them even to the point of throwing things onto the floor). Not even Gordon Ramsey and Robert Irvine yell at people this much. If this is what it's like to work in a professional restaurant kitchen, I can safely say that this show has turned me away from ever considering that as a career.

I am binge watching almost every cooking show on discovery+ The only problem is that almost all the shows only have a few seasons and they are from many years ago! I'd like to see some of the shows, this one included, make a come back and give us some more great seasons to watch!

Bring back Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell.

I'm a huge fan of Food Network; Chopped, Worst Chef in America, Restaurant Impossible, all that stuff, and I'm quite frazzled, here. Can someone please tell me what I'm supposed to *enjoy* about "Chef Wanted"?

If you take the time to follow the contestants, you'll come to find out overtime that they're not especially relateable; I'd never really wanna sit down and have a pizza and a beer with any of these people, or anything. There doesn't seem to be a relaxed bone in any of their bodies, whatsoever.

On the other hand, let's say you don't pay attention to the show; that you just watch it passively. Given "Chef Wanted" lightning-speed establishment habits, here's what you'll garner from passively experiencing it; people yelling. People screaming. People throwing things. People generally being insidiously angry. "Your work isn't cutting it, you've gotta work harder" times 1,000,000.

Heck, I'm even a fan of shows similar to Restaurant Impossible; shows where you have the typical angry guy help to repair an establishment in despair. But in the cases of shows that follow said formula, that negativity is there for a legitimate reason! I have never seen a show this unnecessarily negative in my life. Even the lighting and the visuals seem to carry this established sense of negativity; WHY?!

It literally seems like "Chef Wanted" was an experiment by Food Network execs; "Let's see what we can do to just make the darkest, most pointlessly angry show possible!" and dear god, did they succeed.