Agreed. Robert seems a lot more subdued so far this season. I have only seen the first two episodes. The first one was boring. The second one was a little better because the restaurant owner had a nasty temper and huge chip on her shoulder, so the drama and fireworks started off immediately.
What's bugging me about the shows now, is that huge gaping holes in the story aren't answered. In the first episode, cleanliness was an issue and there never was any discussion about it or scenes of a crew doing a deep cleaning. (It wasn't gross like in some of the older shows, but enough for Robert to get annoyed about it.)
In the second episode, the hot-tempered owner had no clue about any of the financial operations of the restaurant and said her husband "did all the books." They'd lost more than $1 million over seven years. To me, that was HUGE! It was never brought up again and once Robert honed in on why the owner had such anger issues, he honed in on that like a dog with a bone and dragged her off to a boxing gym. So, I guess his days as a failed talk show host didn't cure the need to try to "fix" people. I was much more interested in where all the money was going. How do you lose $30K every month?
There also seems to be more focus on RI giving cooking demos on this reboot.
I'll hang with it for a few more weeks. I kind of miss the nasty dumps that were skating the line of being close down by the health department and the disastrous trial service runs.
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