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I wanted to like this more than I do. I wasn't sure how enthralled I'd be with business challenges, and I'm enjoying that aspect more than expected. The low point for me is that the contestants are already very successful. Even if eliminated, they all go back to an already thriving business. It's on par with how Hell's Kitchen already has seasoned chef - however professional chefs don't have excessive money and the prize would be life changing. I admit that I don't know the exact financials of the Food Stars contestants, but the way they've been presented is that they are all doing quite well. I would much prefer to see this type of show with business people who have a solid idea, but don't yet have their foot in the door.

Honestly this show had potential. The main idea behind the show is excellent but the casting of the competitors is awful. It's forced, fake, and just horrible. I keep watching in hopes that the really cringe competitors leave the show, to see if it can improve but it just gets worse. It feels like a roller coaster of chaos that just never ends. Gordon has amazing excellent shows but this one really missed the mark due to the casting. Like I said it had great potential but fell off within the first episode. I will not be shocked if there will never be another season. Don't waste your time watching unless you enjoy being annoyed.

So I just created my IMDB account to express my support for Megan. I want to echo Top Dawg Critic's sentiments about disruptive individuals. Caroline, Sydney, and stubborn Queen can be quite irritating. Queen showed promise but was unwilling to take feedback. Watching them from an audience standpoint is uncomfortable.

Caroline's attitude reminds me of a quote from South Park Season 8, Episode 12 - worth a watch.

Anyways as a cooking enthusiast who respects great chefs like Ramsey, I'm apprehensive about him choosing a winner who may not value his guidance and investment. It's a show to watch!

This show is so annoying and most of the competitors are cringe. It's like Gordon Ramsay handpicked a bunch of loud, annoying and obnoxious individuals to be on this show, which is pretty much fixed on who goes home based on Gordon Ramsay's like or dislike of that person, with hardly any bearing of what that individual did or didn't do for each challenge. Yet another money grab attempt by Ramsay who could've just as easily partnered up with MasterChef winners that can cook, and clearly run a restaurant that has great food, because that chef won the season. The entire concept of this show is ridiculous and redundant. Can't see this nonsense being renewed for another season.

Look, you know the Gordon Ramsay style by now...let's see what he can do with The Apprentice...but it's "different"...somehow.

The hodge podge of contestants is bad enough, clearly brought in for their rage inducing qualities and maybe vague relatable personal appeal? Though that gets threadbare when the group is split up into teams and given ridiculous challenges neither utilize whatever skill set these contestants have or feel like they reflect anything applicable to running a business. We're still trying to pretend, in the current year, that you can manufacture something viral...and that its level of virality can then be judged? The complete boomer understanding of something like the TikTok challenge is a pretty good encapsulation of this shows ability to reach to a novel concept, but ruin it in execution.

The show needs to be retooled and really lean into the fact that it's a shameless The Apprentice knockoff. Let's continue to act as though Ramsay is a God King with increasingly crazier stunts, but add a couple of advisors...maybe a crusty old restaurantuer and one of Ramsay's fail children...to at least provide a veneer of "youth understanding of the world's ways".

The biggest problem of season one is that a lot of strong contestants stood up early to be team leaders and then were summarily destroyed by their lesser teammates. This happened so much that by the end of the show you clearly have a winner...and a bunch of talentless chaff hanging about. The Apprentice got like that at times, but usually the producers would milk the drama llamas JUST enough...then let them go. Not Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars... apparently Caroline's dad is his golf buddy or something because inextricably she has somehow survived the ENTIRE SEASON...having (to my anecdotal remembering) not once led any team challenge and predominantly being the cause of her teams demise in challenges. When the contestants' gameplay is so glaringly obvious (do poorly in challenge, immediately find someone to throw under the bus during hot seat segments) to the viewer, who is watching an edited version of the events, it leads to a very boring watch. At least Ramsay keeps The Apprentice vibe in check, seemingly not worrying himself with contestants previous challenges success and continuing to float turds to the next round.

Not to be outdone by the awfulness of the first season, season bolts on another couple of elements from other shows: Shark Tank and Ramsay's own Next Level Chef...with the latter kind of leaning more towards my suggestion of just ripping off The Apprentice in the addition of Lisa Vanderpump, a supposed magnate of the food and wine industry?

I would say Vanderpump's addition is indeed a plus. Sadly, the banter between her and Ramsay is forced and filled with childish insults. Her rampant Bravo Housewives shenanigans (read alcoholism) in challenges is also of note, considering that in the wine challenge she was overly effusive with her brand of assistance. I would personally consider that cheating, but it makes the hellish slog that is this show at least somewhat entertaining.

What does become starkly clear as the season progresses is that Ramsay's team...to a person...is woeful compared to Vanderpump's. It seems as though Ramsay was only interested in the brands his team was representing and nothing else. Never noting with any seriousness that several members of his team were abysmal in pitching or speaking in front of people....which seems to be like 80% of the show.

The challenges themselves are the same tired nonsense from The Apprentice...and last season...wherein not a single one really taps into the contestants strengths. The Mars Attacks episode is worth a mention here as the teams were apparently not made aware of the candy laws in the ol U. K. and that they couldn't market to children. This leads to a gloriously entertaining pivot fail. The cherry on top being one of the contestants labels themselves a "nutritionist" and rubber stamps a candy bar absolutely riddled with sugar! 80% worth!!!

This is by far the worst Gordon Ramsay joint by far. Yet it remains watchable due to the contestants that think way too highly of themselves and their abilities to do a business. I am not surprised by their inability to tackle any of this shows challenges due to their own failings as anything remotely relatable to running a company, even in the abstract.

Hopefully season three will bolt on yet another host and a surprise other show element to keep this Frankenstein's monster of a "show" on the air.

Gordon is playing Sugar Daddy ... er, co-investor, to one (and only one) Instagram Influencer ... entrepreneur.

The problems: 1) None of the Contentants are capable of completing ANY of the challenges.

2) None of the challenges have anything to do with the ANY of the Contestants' businesses.

3) Gordon seems to be using these Instagram Influencers to flex on how great he is.

4) None of the Contestants can work together as a team.

5) After watching five episodes, I doubt that any of the Contestants have ever even SEEN a kitchen, let alone run their own business. Or have worked a day in their whole life. Or have ever heard the word no.

Food Stars? Hardly. More like Rich Showoff and Fifteen Spoiled Kids.

Season 1 was the best of all these show, the first version was great I loved it. Ramsay needs no internal competition. This model doesn't work?

He offered great advice and direction and we could see who had real talent. Maybe Ramsay should slow down and stick with the models that work.

But adding this reality star women who walks around with a designer dog on the Housewives and thought she was better than all of them. I guess she has opened restaurants - but has she really or just paid people. .

But maybe other real restauranteurs can't work with Ramsay. Just air time for a woman who loves to show her behind. Please go back to original format!

I have worked in groups like this many times over the years.

The show really captures the dynamics that happen.

It never ceases to amaze me that there us ALWAYS a Caroline in a group until the group has enough.

Im no shrunk, but she definitely shows all the traits if a narcissist...her need to control, the passive aggressive comments and ways she treats people, her gaslighting ways she denies what she says or does and ESPECIALLY the way she zeroed in on the most empathic person in the group, made her her bff and then manipulated her and stabbed her in the back....even pretended to cry; thr biggest proof in that was when she made the stabbing comment towards her target and then finished it off with now not friends in the show.

Gordon R would end up regretting her if she makes it to the end and would part ways with her really effing quick.

I watch all Gordon's shows and enjoy all of them. But this one with Vanderpump is beyond awful. I am an accomplished, decades long home cook. Why would you put people who run all types of businesses iton the kitchen when they have no experience in the kitchen? Or in front of the house situations like at the Savoy when they have no experience with service? Almost all these people had NO experience in front or back of the house. I mean this wasn't even entertaining...just painful to watch. I think Gordon has overreached on this one. Can we just stick with the good shows that actually work and not reach into the realm of the unbelievable?

I don't know what show the poster who gave this train wreck a 10/10 rating saw, but it could not be this show.

Take a bunch of self centered, unlikeable people, with extremely limited cooking chops, and throw in constant manufactured drama, and this is the result. This show, if it had any scruples, would just quit mid season and tell these drama queens to go back to their social media lives, as they have shown they cannot function among other people outside their bubble.

Gordon has made many good and entertaining shows. Sadly, this is not one of them. If he actually follows through on his promise to give one of these losers $250k, he should be assigned someone to oversee his finances.

Ramsay needs to poor it up a bit. Nobody cares about wine boxes and 30 dollar beach food, man... it is so disappointingly out of touch with the regular human. All about the flashy, richy locales and already-done food challenges that cater to losers with money. He seems to be concerned more with production values and imagery than with the actual modern food scene. Make a show about street food, about farm to table. Encourage your contestants to make the best hole-in-the-wall restaurant with honestly delicious and affordable food rather than fine dining BS that nobody actually likes. The BEST food is made and enjoyed by down to earth, humble folks; if Ramsay were to even ATTEMPT making a show that included and respected this population, he wouldn't be struggling with viewership.

I'm a major GM fan. I'll watch anything with him in it but I just could not stomach this show. Season 2 with the vamderpump lady was much worse than season 1. But they still both sucked. I know GM is a brilliant entrepreneur but we love to see him in cooking shows not business shows. This was not interesting. I didn't not learn anything. I was not entertained. I don't see the sense in cutlery manufacturers in a culinary challenge. I just makes no sense. I watched this because it was the only new GM show available but I won't be doing that any more. Trash GM shows are still trash. I sincerely hope that there will not be a 3rd season of this show.

A takeoff of the Apprentice with a terrible cast. It seems to have ended after 5 episodes as there hasnt been a new episode in about a month. I like Gordon Ramsey but this is brutal.

He seems to have eliminated some of the better competitors who were willing to stick their neck out and lead. Now he has a bunch of followers.

Half of them are in way over their heads ( think snow cone boy) and look flustered most of the time. Others believe they are helpful, like the girl who refused to fish but thought she could teach others.

The only reason i continue to watch is i like ramsey. Clearly none of these people could compete on master chef or hells kitchen.

Gordon, stick to those and Uncharted.