Dear viewer relations,
I would like to make a comment/complaint about your show, "Take Home Chef". I used to watch this show all the time, and enjoyed it, until I started to notice that the people that Curtis was "taking home" were all particularly affluent people. I personally do not have anything against affulent people, but I find this frustrating when watching "Take Home Chef" for many different reasons. First off, there is the issue of representation. As I have already mentioned, it seems to me that the people Curtis are cooking with are, by and large, people that are of a higher socio-economic back ground. Hence, the show does not take a reflective sample of the population, but rather focuses on a specifically small sample. Unfortunetly, what this leads to is obvious: the creation of a show where the main characters are people that the majority of your viewers can not identify with. Even worse, not only can they not identify with the people on your show, but they end up disliking or even resenting these people that "need help". The whole premise of this show is to help people, and yet time and time again you select those who really have the means to help themselves, ingoring so many people that truely need the assistance, people who cannot afford to take a cooking class, or dine out in restaurants every other evening (unlike most of the people on your show). Never have I watched Take Home Chef and thought "well thats great, he really helped that couple out", but have often thought, "those people can afford their own personal chef, what on earth is he even doing there". The last show I watched, I turned off after the crew pulled up into this woman's drive way, in her brand new Lexus, to her towering eight bedroom home, which over-looked the ocean. I just find it distasteful, frustrating, and such a shame that you, as a programming entity as well as a helping body, can not effectively represent the population at large, and provide assistance to a group who are most able to find means to help themselves, while a majority of the population remains ignored.
Thank you for your time in reading my concern,
T*****A D**E
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well put. but then again, many people like to live other people's lives...
did you know that Britney's hair is available on an auction for $1 Million starting bid?
check this out... so, i'm not surprised... In all likelihood the shows with richer women got better ratings from the motte who are used as an "average viewer" benchmark...
well.. the motte is fucked.. I mean seriously. I watch the show to see how much BETTER off i am that those idiots that cant even slice a carrot. I dont want to see some rich bitch with her boobs hanging out of the cleavage shirt that they all run to put on five mintues after they get home. I mean, are they trying to impress curtis? The audience? The carrots? Come on.. IM certainly not impressed. "hey bitch, nice boobs, will you pay those off first or your land rover?"
Dressing up for the carrot, that's a concept :) i wonder how they pick those carrots: shape, firmness or color?
oh, and the hubby bought the boobs, she doesn't have to pay...
i've never seen the show, but did you send this off to them? either way, i'm impressed with you- i like how you never just accept things at face value, but you actually think about them- whether it's some tv show, or the way people think and react to things, like your "good how are you" gate story. you have amazing critical thinking skills...as well as being a great story teller! one of the things i miss most about having a comp is getting to read all your new blog posts!
miss you, love you
kat
Holy fuck. Britney's hair cost how much. Hair off her head! Now I could understand some pervert paying that much for hair from the other end, but really. I'll bet you can't even make a decent wig out of it.
Why do you watch cooking anyway. You can cook.
lol, do you ever watch cooking shows? can YOU cook?
now, do i watch cooking shows... and can i cook..
Hmmmm is there some sort of cause and effect relationship here? I think just maybe there is... hehehe
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