Vinessa Conlon

I have no idea how this has such high ratings and I'm convinced the 5 star reviews are fake as they all sound like they were paid to be written, this is pure garbage. Don't waste your time. Terrible writing, low budget, completely unbelievable story lines and characters and rarely ever remotely funny and the acting is awful. Ron Livingston is the only good actor but he clearly just wanted a paycheck because he couldn't possibly have read the scripts and thought this show was a good idea. The cutter character was so ridiculously stupid! I quit watching during the Dad episode, which was horrible, not even remotely funny. If you want to watch a show that is super well written with a disgruntled main character that has heart and depth, check out After Life by Ricky Gervais.

*Spoiler alert* I gave this show a three star rating because there are a few factors that I think made this frustrating to watch. 1. Format & rules made no sense, while it was nice to see no one have to get sent home the rules didn’t make much sense. I really liked the fact that it was more focused on improvement and learning and honing skills, but if it is a competition, it doesn’t really make much sense. There were way too many group projects. How could you have a clear & fair winner when the end showpiece was a group effort with other people on the team clearly doing way more than the winner? Neither Juan nor Melissa did the two major features of their final showpieces. Daniel did the largest & most amazing part of the winning showpiece and I thought he deserved to get a runner-up prize at least if not winner! 2. I found both Melissa and Juan to be insufferable. Full of themselves, arrogant and Melissa was consistently mean spirited and how many times did we have to hear about why she wanted to win the 50K for her nothing to do with chocolate restaurant & complain that others didn’t deserve to win she did. Ughh. Daniel was so sweet to vote for her over himself and shouldn’t have, she didn’t deserve it. Stephanie and Thiago were just yuck personalities too. Both so self centered and eager to gossip about others. 3. Too much crying and drama and editing to force more drama into your face. Clearly edited cuts that show other people looking mad when other people do well etc. The only things that I liked about the show were seeing Chef Amaury’s amazing masterpiece skills with chocolate/sugar and his teaching & seeing the growth of some people. Had the show just been what I thought it was I believe Daniel would have & should have won the whole thing. I highly doubt I will be watching season two.