Kitchen Confidential

The backstage of a kitchen in a posh restaurant run by a self-centered chef with a divine talent. Quite a rare topic amongst mainstream sitcoms. So in the end it’s hard to understand why the supporting and rewarding part of a special world in itself has been so blatantly ignored (even though whenever pursued it makes for the most memorable moments of the series) and overwhelming majority of humor is based on simple American “who’s fucking who" relationship (non)humor and pondering about life with a moralizing lesson at the end of each episode. It’s basically identical to HIMYM. Just that it’s happening in a kitchen instead of a flat/pub, but it could be happening in offices of an accountant company or in the drains with homeless people; there wouldn’t be much of a difference. It’s a waste of a good theme and the cast as both of them deserve better than a trivial result seen a hundred times before. (08.04.2013)

A factory second dessert, where one actor is a better comedian than the other and Bradley Cooper reigns supreme as the king of grimaces and verbal humor, long before anyone thought of saying "The Hangover" out loud. It saddens me so incredibly that this gourmet affair consisted of only thirteen courses, and even though it lacks a slightly more cohesive final impression, Kitchen Confidential is still a much more delicious dish for me than most of the most notorious sitcoms of today. In this case, the way to your heart is truly through your stomach. (19.06.2011)