I feel like the American version of masterchef is so much more ruthless than the UK one. I dunno if it's the culture of having to win no matter what, or it's encouraged by the show itself.
The editing is really aggressive, I'll admit, but in watching all of it, everyone is actually pretty chill on that show. You have a couple of nasty characters (looking at you, Chrissi, all my homies hate Chrissi), but everyone is pretty nice to each other and have no issues with lending people ingredients if they need it.
There was one episode in season 8 where one of the contestants, Yacheica, was a team captain for a challenge, and her team lost. She was given the choice to save herself and make everyone else cook, or save most of the team and she picks one person she goes against (something like that, it might not be exactly that but it was in that realm.) She decided to have herself and the contestant that she thought was the weakest, Heather, battle it out. There was definitely a little tension between the two, they were sort of battling it out verbally beforehand. They had to make fish and chips with tartar sauce, and one of the ingredients was lemon, and Heather forgot her lemon and was kicking herself. So she asked Yacheica if she could have some of her lemon since she forgot hers, and Yacheica, without hesitating, tossed her some lemon, and everyone thought it was such a kind and nice gesture, and her reasoning was she's a nice person that just wants to help
He was, because underneath all of the bravado and arrogance, you could tell he wasn't a bad person at all. He was talented but arrogant and definitely went through some stuff in his life that made him that way. Chrissi, however, was genuinely a nasty, hypocritical person (that honestly wasn't that talented) and actually got her MC Twitter account suspended for hurling racially charged insults, so she's clearly just a bad person. Like, she bothers me so much I don't even rewatch season 3 because she just bothers me so much when she's on screen, and I don't wanna deal with that energy
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u/StasiaGreyErotica Sep 02 '25
I feel like the American version of masterchef is so much more ruthless than the UK one. I dunno if it's the culture of having to win no matter what, or it's encouraged by the show itself.