Customer Reviews
Entertaining - Written to "Up" the Reviews 
2008-05-31
I am writing this to the person who wants to "save our children." This is a very entertaining show. So what if there is bleeped out language. If you don't like the show or don't want your kids to watch the show, then don't watch it and shut up.
Hell's Kitchen Season 1 DVD 2008-05-30
The DVD was great,as i expected.It arrived within a few days of purchase carefully packaged and in Mint condition....watched it already.
Hear the obscenities while you feel the heat! 
2008-05-29
I only discovered Hell's Kitchen as season two was beginning and it immediately became the only reality TV show that I ever made a point to keep up with every week. I'll admit that it's the sheer spectacle of watching the victims...er...contestants survive my idea of hell, working in a restaurant, while attempting to meet Chef Gordon Ramsay's exacting standards that keeps me glued to the tube when this show is on.
Here's the short list of what I love about this show.
First, there's Chef Ramsay's license to abuse people, within a context of course. The context being that one of these people will win a huge prize that they in all liklihood would never obtain on thier own: their own fancy restaurant.
I look at it like cooking boot camp. Sure, the contestants are being continually cursed and screamed at. Of course, we see many hours of real time condensed to a relatively few minutes each episode, so I wonder just how intense it looks "real time". I guess we'll never know, but it's for a purpose and I assume they knew what they signed up for. There's just something about a frantic, frazzled amateur chef being cursed over messing up the risotto that I find hilarious. How difficult is risotto to make, anyway?
Second, it's a cooking show that really isn't about cooking at all, but about working as a team in a "fish out of water" (and into the frying pan) kind of situation where there's fire, smoke, steam, and screaming. How do normal people react in stressful situations? Some rise to the occasion and discover greatness in themselves while others are exposed for the arrogant blowhards that they really are.
Third, those wonderful obscenities! Wow, when I was watching this show I was fascinated by just what Gordon Ramsay could be saying when they bleeped him out. What could it be? Well, with this DVD it's all there, so if you like to hear the "f word" derisively spoken and screamed with English flair at people, you'll love this show.
Seriously, Chef Ramsay uses obscenities so much they become routine and cliche (except I'd imagine if they were directed at me!). You'd think by watching this show that all Chef Ramsay does is glower and scream at people, and it's a shame that his BBC show "The F Word" is not so easily accessed here in the states. You really get to know Chef Ramsay on that show.
Fourth, on this DVD you don't have to suffer the commercials. A Hell's Kitchen episode is about 40 minutes long. Even with the show recorded it was annoying to fast forward through all that stuff. It's fun to just kick back and bask in the heat of Hell's Kitchen without having to reach for a remote every few minutes.
All in all, a reality show that I am thankful isn't reality for me. The only time I worked in a restaurant I was a dishwasher and I broke so many dishes I was fired after three days. I've done my time in "hell", and now you can too!
Hell's Kitchen Season 1 2008-05-26
I enjoyed it very much! Gordon ramsay is a little raw, but his passion for good food done well is a joy to see! Not for the kids, but it was excellent!
Hell's Kitchen - Outstanding! 2008-05-13
Just as good as watching it on TV, in fact I would say its better. With the DVD's you're able to see and hear what you missed when it played on TV. The only thing I can say bad about this series is it takes so long to get the next season out. Chief Gordon rules the kitchen!
hells kitchen season 1 complete..awesome! 2008-07-19
if you are into bootcamp for chefs this is the dvd for you, uncensored just like in real life. I cannot wait until they release season 2.
I couldn't stop until I watched the whole thing! 2008-06-21
The drawback to this DVD was the lack of subtitles. I found that I sometimes had a hard time keeping up with all the dialog, made more difficult with Gordon's British accent, causing me to rewind quite a bit in order to catch everything. Also, I was disappointed with the change in the Hell's Kitchen theme music, but I understand that they could not come to an agreement over the music rights, so they had to change it. The good part is, this is truly entertainment at it's best! When the narrator explained that Gordon does not like it when customers come to the hot plate to politely complain, that was putting it mildly! You won't believe what he says to them. Sincere apologies? Not so much.
awesome 2008-06-08
The service was great! I love the Tv show hell's kitchen so I wanted to have something at home to watch with Gordon Ramsay!!he's Awesome. I will be getting the other Season's as well!!!
Great Season - Highly recommend!! 2008-06-04
Cant get better than Hell's Kitchen - and uncensored at that!! No bleeping, its wonderful!!
Hell's Kitchen Season One... 2008-06-02
I absolutely LOVE Hell's Kitchen and season one is the best! Gorden Ramsey is really a sweetheart but as in a military bootcamp, he treats the aspiring chefs and their stay at Hell's Kitchen as a boot camp...as it should be. It is like: "What are some of these people actually thinking in wanting to run their own restaurant?" Very entertaining stuff. Gorden is 100% right on!
