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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108723/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/chef/

Famous chef Gareth Blackstock struggles with dividing time between wife Janice and the restaurant. It’s a good thing he can let off steam with his remarks.

The first two seasons are very good. It’s unfortunate that the cast gets shuffled around so much though. The writing is excellent and the dialogue is quite biting.

The third season make is obvious why the show got the axe. The dialogue is terrible, the characters are twisted around and everything becomes totally unfamiliar.

The Complete Collection
Lenny Henry Is
Chef!
Beware sharp knives and even
sharper tongues…

~2005-10-02 ∞

The first two seasons are very good. It’s unfortunate that the cast gets shuffled around so much though. The writing is excellent and the dialogue is quite biting.

The third season make is obvious why the show got the axe. Dismissing the dog-ugly girlfriend.. the dialogue is terrible, the characters are twisted around and everything becomes totally unfamiliar.

The third season is so terrible.. so very very terrible that it has been outcast to the pile of DVDs which I’m only saving to remind me of my terrible errors in judgement. It’s going to lay next to that god-awful Jackie Chan “flim”, Fantasy Mission Force – (1983 movie), which I spoke of so highly that I recommended recreational pharmaceuticals to watch it. Ugh.

It’s so horrible.. so very bloody horrible.. I’m uncomfortable scanning through it.

I am without words to describe how terrible I feel inside at its existence.. and how ashamed I am to have given up money in exchange for such horror. such.. horror.

s01 ∞

Personnel ∞

• 5:00 — Did he just double-dip the spoon? Yuk!

Beyond the Pass ∞

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Subject to Contract ∞

• 0:37 — It’s light out.

• 13:31 — I hope they don’t use that leek, since it was in his mouth.

The Big Cheese ∞

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Fame Is the Spur ∞

• 7:32 — Nice unibrow
• 15:21 — You’re not a backup singer with Clannad. =)
• 19:45 — BAFTA

• 25:45 — That’s one of the crayfish mentioned in the previous episode.

Rice and Peas ∞

See rice and peas.

• 23:38 — Did he have a watch on? Eww.

A bird in the Hand ∞

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s02 ∞

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• A River Runs Thru It
• Time Flies
• Do the Right Thing
• Masterchef
• A Diploma of Miseries
• Private Lives

• England Expects

s03 ∞

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• Gareth’s True Love
• Reeny/Renée
• Leassons in Talking
• Love in the Air
• Rochelle

• Paris? Jamaica?

2005-10-02 ∞

Good godless heaven, this last and thankfully final season is such crap.. such awful awful crap.. I am ashamed to have been witness to it. So.. very.. ashamed.

I have been exposed to horrors.. horror.. the horror..

Comedy gone awry. Terrible terrible characters. Terrible acting. Terrible writing. Terrible dialogue. I’d even rather watch The Kids in the Hall – (1988 show) than this unspeakable unspeakableness.. and that’s saying something.

More ∞

• Interviews with Lenny Henry and Caroline Lee Johnson
• Appearance by Lenny Henry on BBC’s The Good Food Show [ 1 ]

• Cast Bios

Footnotes

1. See Good Food [ ↩ ]

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