Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 (Fox, 2009)

And the winner is Danny!

This season of HK started off looking more promising then the previous two seasons, but after watching the finale last night it made us wonder. Will future seasons add anything new to the show? Will we get villian contestants like Lacey? Surely anything is possible…

This season as a whole had a few suprises that were nice to see, but the finale was agonizing. The last 10 minutes of show and build up was so predictable and seeing Gordon Ramsey play acting was almost as bad as the build up “open your door”. From the overly saturated music, to the flash clips, then the picture wall, yep Danny got to put his oversized picture on the wall, left us feeling a bit deflated.

Let’s stop going on about the season finale, and just say that this season had some really great weeks in it. We loved Lacey, who wouldn’t? Our girl L.A should have won outright though. It would have also been nice to see if Robert made it into the finale, but his illness wouldn’t allow it. The other contestants in this years season also provided some good interactions with Ramsey himself, did he keep Seth on so long to amuse himself?

In closing we will look forward another new season, because it’s just so satisfying to see and hear Ramsey yell, “Donkey!” two inches from a contestants face…Ah fine dining indeed. ~Gina Clark

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