First of all, I look out for anything that Stephen Graham does because he does it so well! Even though this story of a troubled chief owner Graham depicts a new restaurant going through a tough night at Christmas and one thing leads to another and it's obvious the team aren't as strong as needed to cope with this busy and traumatic evening that opens up.
It keeps you watching as you know something is going to go tits up at any moment, then again, after watching too many kitchen nightmares shows it's pretty spot-on for realism, although I am sure people don't have nr fatal nut allergy reactions on a nightly basis.
The only criticism for me is it is a bit too much of the same with the occasional moments of stress overload from the pressure of getting everything on time and right, which leads to more pressure cooker moments and back to a slightly calmer atmosphere, there's near little information on chiefs background problems or how he made it to the heady heights of the head chief, and not a great deal happens.
All that being said some will enjoy the slow burn of boiling point and others will switch off due to seeing this a hundred times on a Ramsey show.
I found it overall fairly good, however, I am not sure I would have felt the same without Graham in the lead role.
It keeps you watching as you know something is going to go tits up at any moment, then again, after watching too many kitchen nightmares shows it's pretty spot-on for realism, although I am sure people don't have nr fatal nut allergy reactions on a nightly basis.
The only criticism for me is it is a bit too much of the same with the occasional moments of stress overload from the pressure of getting everything on time and right, which leads to more pressure cooker moments and back to a slightly calmer atmosphere, there's near little information on chiefs background problems or how he made it to the heady heights of the head chief, and not a great deal happens.
All that being said some will enjoy the slow burn of boiling point and others will switch off due to seeing this a hundred times on a Ramsey show.
I found it overall fairly good, however, I am not sure I would have felt the same without Graham in the lead role.