after 6 seasons of Chef's Table and 2 of Street Food, episodes can feel formulaic and hew too closely to an overly-familiar template, the story of hardship, a low point in someone's life, overcoming that low point/obstacle seemingly solely by grit and determination as the music swells with voice-overs from episode's main interviewee, saying things like "but I knew I couldn't let myself down" or "If I stayed down I would never get up" the interviewees' individual stories feel shortchanged by being put into this template, which started to feel very apparent in the last few episodes of SF:LA there's always an obstacle to overcome (which is fine, that's basic in storytelling), there's always talking heads with effusive praise about what a game-changer the cooking/restaurant is, there's always an overcoming of the obstacle with swelling music and sentences that came out of those old-school motivation posters, but this template feels like it sandpapers away the specificity of the individual's culinary & life journey
Shout by BobDole12BlockedParent2020-09-17T05:35:48Z
after 6 seasons of Chef's Table and 2 of Street Food, episodes can feel formulaic and hew too closely to an overly-familiar template, the story of hardship, a low point in someone's life, overcoming that low point/obstacle seemingly solely by grit and determination as the music swells with voice-overs from episode's main interviewee, saying things like "but I knew I couldn't let myself down" or "If I stayed down I would never get up"
the interviewees' individual stories feel shortchanged by being put into this template, which started to feel very apparent in the last few episodes of SF:LA
there's always an obstacle to overcome (which is fine, that's basic in storytelling), there's always talking heads with effusive praise about what a game-changer the cooking/restaurant is, there's always an overcoming of the obstacle with swelling music and sentences that came out of those old-school motivation posters, but this template feels like it sandpapers away the specificity of the individual's culinary & life journey