Kitchen Confidential

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Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 19, 2005
Metascore
64

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20

Critic Reviews

  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    60
    'Kitchen Confidential" is the kind of new TV show that fits perfectly beside the adjective ''promising." Pilots sometimes strain to set up the entire series, and tonight's episode of ''Confidential" has its share of forced material.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    60
    The biggest problem with Fox's "Kitchen Confidential" is that star Bradley Cooper... is far too appealing to play a bad-boy chef.
  3. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    60
    Cooper and Somerville... keep things moving.
  5. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    60
    The cast is attractive, the show's look is sleek, the pace is frantic, but Kitchen Confidential isn't especially funny.
  6. The A.V. Club
    60
    All the elements of a first-rate show are in place.... So why isn't it funnier?
  7. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    50
    It isn't a laugh-a-minute free-for-all.
  8. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Frank Bruni
    50
    [Cooper's] presence [is] almost engaging enough to redeem an overstuffed, overbaked first episode.
  9. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    50
    The writers seem to assume that life backstage at a glamorous New York restaurant is so inherently enticing, we'll just fall into the story on our own. Maybe, but a few sympathetic characters or amusing lines couldn't have hurt.
  10. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    40
    Confidential is a comedy hash - lots of heat, little taste.
  11. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    40
    Backstage antics are what's supposed to make "Kitchen Confidential" hilarious, but instead the characters just come off as juvenile.

Awards & Rankings

24
#24 Best TV Season of 2005
46
#46 Most Discussed TV Season of 2005
27
#27 Most Shared TV Season of 2005

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User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 21
  3. Negative: 3 out of 21
  1. retiredat56
    Aug 15, 2011
    7
    Although the acting is good the writing does not quite make it. It did have potential. The show has some funny moments and would have doneAlthough the acting is good the writing does not quite make it. It did have potential. The show has some funny moments and would have done better if it was more mature. As it is, it feels like it was written for 15 year olds experiencing testosterone for the first time. The station did well to pull it and put the show out of its misery.… Full Review »
  2. TriciaS
    Jul 28, 2007
    10
    Puhleez bring it back! It's tasteful comedy without being boring. It's a laugh! It's refreshing after watching complicated Puhleez bring it back! It's tasteful comedy without being boring. It's a laugh! It's refreshing after watching complicated plots within never ending plots of 24 or Lost. It has the potential to last as long as Friends did! It's a shame it was cancelled. What really happened?! There are shows out there that don't have the wit Kitchen Confidential has!… Full Review »
  3. AudreyG
    May 20, 2006
    10
    i thought this was wonderfully done and extremely funny. fox lost a viewer when they cancelled it!!
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