Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Why The Amy's Baking Co. Kitchen Nightmares Update Was So Embarrassing + Reality Blurred

Whale Wars DVD Most of the episode focused on reaction to last years episode, which came off even more self-serving than it was. Ramsay narrated from the Hells Kitchen set as if he was a Dateline reporter. A lot of what Ramsay said was just absurd, like when he insisted reaction to the episode was the number-one trending story on the Internet (what does that even mean?!). At one point, he also non-ironically said online bloggers, which is a redundant and clueless phrase that unintentionally recalls Amys description of redditors as online legion trolls. Having a few journalists recap what happened last year and flashing tweets on the screen ( including mine! ) only told people what they already knew: it was a great episode. But by hammering that point over and over again, re-using the same footage, it unintentionally made the counter-argument.

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