I’m getting the feeling that the theme of this show is “Brits: Noble creatures, Americans: Amoral assholes.”
But I think this show’s idea of morality is more than a little screwed up.
I’ve only watched the first two episodes.
Okay, it was a bad cheating move when the American Cody threw the three pounds of bison away, supposedly so it wouldn’t be deducted from their cash total. (Although that he would pull this stunt while the cameras were on him, I find a little suspicious of the producers.) I’ll leave that aside.
But in the first episode, British Samantha purposely cooks a subpar elimination challenge dish just so the poor little nineteen-year-old doesn’t get her feelings hurt by getting cut in the first round? I’m sorry, I call bullshit.
There is no frickin’ way that a serious contestant for $100,000 is going to throw herself on a grenade for another contestant if that other person is not capable of proving herself in the finals. That’s cheating in itself, and I can’t see any reasonable competitor behaving that way.
I say the fix is in. Morality has nothing to do with it.
By the way, that whole “We have morals, they don’t” tantrum at the farmer’s market was bullshit too. The Brits had been there for hours apparently, and sold off most of their bison, so it didn’t matter where the Americans set up shop. Anyway, on most cooking shows, the contestant teams compete side by side at the same location. Nothing immoral about it.