27-04-2024, 12:32 AM
ITV may as well have brought back Hell's Kitchen instead of Next Level Chef. It probably would have performed better because of the more level playing field. The concept of some contestants forced to make do with scraps while others have the very best is seen by programme makers as some ingenious allegory to real life, politics and class structures but viewers see right through it and shows which try to be clever in that sense fail because of it.