I thought I would break up some of my depressing World War II reviews with a review of The F Word Series 2 that was released earlier this year. I really enjoyed the first season so I figured to catch up on this so that I could pick up the next season, which gets released next week.
The F Word is a play on words for how much Gordon Ramsay, Scottish celebrity hot head, using the expletive constantly as he's working with such incompetent people. This show is different from his more Americanized shows like Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmare's in the way that it takes place in Britain (and plays on BBC) and is more focused on cooking and Ramsay himself as opposed to big producer-orchestrated standouts.
The first season was really cool, but this one takes a different approach where not only is the on-field "correspondent" different (replaced Giles Coren with Janet Street-Porter, who turns out to be a much better match, though Coren still makes an appearance in an interesting segment), but the structure is a little weird.
In this season, a different group of chefs compete together towards the end and you get to know them a little better this time around. Not only that, but they've added a different focus where whatever food these chefs make in the kitchen isn't paid for by the customer (due to their dissatisfaction) which leads to Ramsay's dissatisfaction, which ultimately leads to the wannabe chefs dissatisfaction. Ramsay's blowouts this time around are even more awkward and in your face and, of course, uncensored in this DVD--so don't expect to watch this on family night!
The focus of last season was that Ramsay wanted to get more people (particularly women) back into the kitchen and also was raising turkeys with his family to be slaughtered for Christmas dinner. This series is all about PIGS as Ramsay wants to raise two for slaughter in the final episode challenge. At the same time he wants to show people that cooking can be easy and to try and bring family's together to cook on Sundays. I felt that the overall theme of this season was much weaker than last seasons and at the end I really didn't get as much satisfaction.
There are still some great moments in the show such as seeing Ramsay acting more like himself and going out spear-fishing, hanging out with his family, wine-tasting, etc. and I felt like I got to know who he was more personally in this series than in any of his American shows.
His recipes and skills also take front seat and gives a ton of mouth-watering recipes such as like his crab spring rolls, chocolate soufflé, honey roasted duck, and many others. Despite my vegetarian status, I found myself constantly appetized by everything that this man made and not only that but it's astounding to see him work his craft as if it's just a walk in the park.
If you are a fan of any of Ramsay's shows and haven't heard of this one then I highly recommend it for you to check out. The price is right, too, at around fifteen dollars used for the DVDs and I could see myself going back to them for the recipes, but entertainment-wise it was definitely not as relevant as the first season.
This is really interesting and has some cool tidbits to it relating to cooking, food economy, and presentation, but it doesn't hold up as well as anything else Ramsay's done. I'd recommend this to hardcore fans, but I think that it's a relatively skippable season.
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