Ciao House: A Competição

What a disappointment that.this show follows the Food channel's formula--ridiculous time constraints, cruel food critics, crushed competitors. Alex's biting comments are vicious. Gabriele's arrogance is irritating. They even insult the Tuscan guests--nona's, wine makers, and butcher so far--by allowing them only few minutes and missing a chance for the contestants and the audience to learn about Tuscan food. Isn't learning about Tuscan food supposed to be the point of this show? Apparently not. What a wasted opportunity. Not the best choice of chefs, but if culinary education were truly the goal of the show, there were many missed opportunities.

My fiancée and I were intrigued by this show when we saw the commercials. Set in Tuscany, lots of opportunity to showcase the locale with all the foods etc. Unfortunately, while they've shown some of those things, the format of the show is ridiculous and super unfair. Constantly lopsided teams, people being captains multiple times while others not at all, has allowed floaters to get further than they should have, while better chefs have gone home. The judges are different and their choices for choosing the winners are wishy washy and we just watched an episode where a judge pointed out something to the chefs about their choice for the menu, questioning it, thusly allowing them to make a change which really gave them an advantage. Ridiculous.

Did the casting call for this show read "Looking for awful human beings who happen to be chefs"? There's nobody to root for on this show. If you want a display of pure narcissism to end your Sunday night, this is for you. It's just such a shame. I'm sure there were more qualified chefs, who also had a shred of humility and basic decency that would have loved the opportunity. The two judges are good! Big fan of Alex and always have been. It's just a waste of her abilities, but I'm sure she is not complaining about being in Tuscany. I hope that if this show gets renewed for another season, they can find contestants that people want to root for and see succeed.

Scenery, setting, production, judges all get a thumbs way up. But, honestly can they not find contestants that don't make every chef in the world look like giant, whiny egotistical jerks? There is not one person here you hopes win or root for! You watch every week hoping the worst of the worst go home! There must be nice, decent talented chefs somewhere! Please find them for Season 3. I know being a successful chef requires immense dedication and hard work and an ego but the Season 2 contestants are so ridiculously over the top. I had one I thought was talented that I did back but of course they were eventually eliminated. Please do better casting wise next season.

I just binge watched this show yesterday. I came onto IMDB expecting to see it rated around an 8. Boy was I was shocked to read all the negative reviews. I just don't get it. People need to stop over analyzing and just enjoy. (I was going to rate the show an 8, but did a 10 to try and balance out all the overly low ratings).

My husband came home around 3/4 of the way through and he also got hooked on it.

Comments (from reviews) about awful contestants are just not true. These seem like 'normal' people. Not overly hyper, like some shows. I love Alex. She has a good sense of humor and is very kind to people.

Looking forward to season 2.