Helping people sort their kitchens, recipes, tips... it's a fine concept and the hosts are fine too.
Where it suffers its need to be FAST. As of course, you can't be a modern show if you're not edited to the point of exhaustion.
They are splicing clips together with such frenetic pace that things move about, you see things out of sequences, expressions change in moments as it's all thrown together for a 'narrative'. It's all minor, but it adds to the feeling of editors just putting everything together because if you are watching a show without a few seconds of dialogue you might fire up Facebook.
Also just silliness like "hacks". Kitchen "hacks". Hacks is modifying something, making something better. telling you how to put ingredients together isn't hacking anything, it's a recipe.
Finally the product placement is heavy. Why on a cooking show do they keep mentioning the cleaning materials being natural, beings safe as they're "plant based" (yeah, no plants are ever deadly). Oh... there it is, product placement.
Why are the drinks all fizzy? Fizzy drinks. Fizzy water for batter. Fizzy fizzy fizzy. Why so fizzy? Oooooh it's Soda Stream sponsored, and it'll be forced into that.
Drawer tidies - yep that's sponsored too. Meat stored incorrectly in a fridge... well they need to be displayed logo front-ways, naturally.
No one expects much from these sorts of shows, but this really is an infomercial for the 21st century.
Where it suffers its need to be FAST. As of course, you can't be a modern show if you're not edited to the point of exhaustion.
They are splicing clips together with such frenetic pace that things move about, you see things out of sequences, expressions change in moments as it's all thrown together for a 'narrative'. It's all minor, but it adds to the feeling of editors just putting everything together because if you are watching a show without a few seconds of dialogue you might fire up Facebook.
Also just silliness like "hacks". Kitchen "hacks". Hacks is modifying something, making something better. telling you how to put ingredients together isn't hacking anything, it's a recipe.
Finally the product placement is heavy. Why on a cooking show do they keep mentioning the cleaning materials being natural, beings safe as they're "plant based" (yeah, no plants are ever deadly). Oh... there it is, product placement.
Why are the drinks all fizzy? Fizzy drinks. Fizzy water for batter. Fizzy fizzy fizzy. Why so fizzy? Oooooh it's Soda Stream sponsored, and it'll be forced into that.
Drawer tidies - yep that's sponsored too. Meat stored incorrectly in a fridge... well they need to be displayed logo front-ways, naturally.
No one expects much from these sorts of shows, but this really is an infomercial for the 21st century.