It is - a guilty pleasure! - Objectively - it is the same thing over and over and over again. Ramsey builds up a team by breaking them first, which is very simplistic psychology.At first - one gets the impression that he really seeks "the best possible" candidate for a job - but more and more - it degrades into too much a compromise of ratings.So he keeps the controversial ones, kicks the silent ones, no matter the skill - choices are more and more made to even out ethnic expectations than anything. So each group usually has a primary group of white people, at least 1 or two Asians and 1 or 2 black people. You usually get the bossy one, the dizzy one, the silent one, the pretty one and the scapegoat.It becomes too predictable.... .Predictable is what kind of ruins it in the long run. Comparing contests almost always end with a "close win" - rarely do we see a team totally annihilating the other team with a 10 to 0 score or so.It is also very unclear when he gets upset and when not. I know that this is part of "breaking" someone - but it is not transparent enough to start to care.And with the predictability and the lack of care - the show degrades just to a level of ... guilty pleasure.A pleasure for seeing others being yelled at.postscript.: maybe because it is Fox ... but the fixation on the Veterans and the military is cringe worthy at least for a European like me. I think i just saw an episode where Ramsey literally yells over a dozen times that they must "think of the coast guards" - to motivate them - as if that's a big deal. On the other hand - for Americans - maybe it is? All in all - it is a 5/10 - for entertainment that you really do not need your brain for - and a bit of an embarrassment for Ramsey, whom i saw in amazing documentaries where he travels the world in search of new and exciting dishes. Here he primarily acts (not too well) a rather boring role.

What is it about watching others cop it and suffer, and enjoying every moment of it? What is it about human behavior enjoying other humans in difficult and miserable positions suffering? What is it about taking enjoyment from watching others fall and suffer and fail and having a laugh at it like a king from a high seat ordering the death of his jester because he failed to entertain him and instead deriving pleasure from seeing the fear and panic on the face of the jester once you given him the death sentence because he failed to entertain you any other way This is hell kitchen, the feel good show from other peoples sufferings and misery and pain. We are evil people, truly we are evil at heart may God help us all

Year after year, this show looks exactly the same with the same "twists," the same band of witless cooks (how can any of these people actually do a good job where they're supposed to wind up if they win?), and the same mistakes, over and over and over... "You've burned the risotto! How can you be so #%$#$ stupid?" Or: "The risotto is soupy and has no salt!" Or "The beef wellington is raw!" And on and on and on, ad nauseum.... I only watch this show because my wife does, but it 's becoming more and more torturous to do so. A good acronym for this show is A-S-S: Always the Same S#@*. Because you're going to hear a cuss word on the show about every 15 seconds; you can set your watch by that. The "goodnight" from Ramsey will always be "P#@$ off." And there will always be terribly overweight cooks dripping sweat into their dishes as predictably as getting bad pizza at Chucke Cheese. Ugly people abound on this show more so than on any other. And it's not just physical. I would swear that every cook was brimming with hatred and bitterness toward all of their fellow human beings if I only watched this show. Being stuck watching this show because of a spouse is in itself "Hell."

This show used to have honest, hard working chefs who cared about the competition above all else. There was a touch of drama to keep the show spicy, but at the end of the day I respected the chefs.Season ten contestants are shameful to say the least. Drama has become the front runner in an untamed season.I have not felt any heart, passion, or integrity as of late and I can't sift through the drama to find the competition of Hell's Kitchen.If you haven't seen this show, I recommend starting from Season one, and continue through season 9. I think you will find a terrific cooking competition (I always call it Survivor for cooks) that is worth the time it takes to watch it.However, I am on the brink of discontinuing this show from my viewing list. I may be able to bear the rest of season ten, but if season eleven is like season ten, then I will have to hang up my apron.Make no mistake, Gordon Ramsay is spectacular. He is the only thing making this season watchable. But if things don't get better fast, my rating will drop further, and I will just have to stick with Master Chef (which is still awesome).