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Gordon Ramsay lies to a restaurant, a la Intervention and installs cameras telling them it's for a renovation show. GR wears a silly disguise and eats in the restaurant with a group of locals.

The camera dramatically zooms in on the dishes presented to Ramsay and Co, until GR has had enough and strips off his disguise. Staff and customers immediately recognise him, exclaiming "omg! Chef!". GR demands everyone stops what they're doing, and for some reason, as if he has actual authority, they do.

From here on in, it's essentially a lesser Kitchen Nightmares, but with the silly added gimmick of a 24 hour time limit.

Whatever. It's Gordon Ramsay. There's grotty kitchens, foul language and yucky food until Gordon saves the day. It's not as entertaining as Kitchen Nightmares and it tries too hard to pull emotional storylines.

Plenty has already been said about the music and narration. The music is out of place, terribly produced with grating vocals (I have a feeling the narrator is the vocalist?). The narrator tries to drum up suspense and emotion, but it's forced and feels downright disrespectful.

The pacing is slow. I enjoy a slow burn true crime doco, but this was like watching grass grow. At one point, the narrator paused for dramatic effect and I wanted to yell at her through the screen to hurry up.

Who is the target audience? It seems to be aimed at teens due to its "YA Novel tone". Would teens actually be interested in this? I'm not sure. This show almost feels condescending to its audience, not to mention disrespectful to the victims and their loved ones, for over dramatising real tragedy for no good reason.

There are much better true crime documentaries on youtube.