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Hell's Kitchen
2005 · TV series · 44 min episodes · 25 seasons
Aspiring restaurateurs brave Ramsay and his fiery command of the kitchen as he puts the competitors through an intense culinary academy to prove they possess the right combination of ingredients to win a life-changing grand prize.
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> This blogger is acting like traditional network television has never mentally tortured people for our viewing pleasure. Have they never seen an episode of Hell's Kitchen, Dr Phil, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here or Big Brother? Basically the entire reality TV genre is based on that premise.
There's also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi#Denpa_Sh%C5%8Dnen_teki_Kensh%C5%8D_Seikatsu
Although I guess Japan has always sort of been in a league on its own when it comes to questionable TV show premises.
This blogger is acting like traditional network television has never mentally tortured people for our viewing pleasure. Have they never seen an episode of Hell's Kitchen, Dr Phil, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here or Big Brother? Basically the entire reality TV genre is based on that premise.
Edit: Seeing as they mention Joe Rogan, Fear Factor is another great example of a reality TV version of basically the same thing.
> has poor wet market sanitation practices
Honest question: Is that a fair/accurate generalization to make? If Hell's kitchen episodes and accounts from food industry workers are any indication, sanitation practices in food handling establishments elsewhere are not necessarily always stellar either. And surely China has some equivalent of WholeFoods?
One ought to be careful not to attribute a characteristic differently depending on whether they belong to the class of people in question[0]. If it turns out that reality is that some chinese establishments have poor sanitation practices just like some US establishments do, and it just so happens that they got unlucky (perhaps partially due to not-so-directly-related aspects like zoning law differences or propensity for higher bat populations due to local fauna/flora ecosystems), the us-vs-them blaming game doesn't necessarily have as strong legs to stand on.
[0] https://xkcd.com/385/
You can see this on nearly every season of "Hell's Kitchen", where they have a taste test challenge. Pairs from the two teams go head to head having to taste and identify things while blindfolded and with their hearing blocked.
Here's the one from season 12 [1] where of the 16 items they were asked to identify, one team got 6 right and one team got 4 right.
[1] https://youtu.be/b-YwHQh6RaM?t=398
Think about Master Chef and Hell's Kitchen. Who would really want to see people cook something that they won't be able to taste? Viewers need to rely on the judges' opinions about the food and that's it. And yet a lot of people watch those shows, not only for the food, but for the 'process' involved in cooking. It's really the drama and emotions involved in the episodes that people crave and keep those shows alive.
How about America's Next Top Model? Or The Apprentice? Most viewers of these shows are neither models nor managers. Perhaps when coding has become as ubiquitous as cooking, business, or fashion (which will happen most likely), coding as a spectator sport will make more sense.
"I don't clean toilets anymore, I'm in charge of strategic marketing now. I'll be taking this office"
On the one hand, I can see this being the ultimate meritocracy. Perhaps the person cleaning toilets is actually a marketing genius? On the other hand, it could be like an episode of Hell's Kitchen where nobody is in charge and the whole operation goes to shit.