Ugly Delicious

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 23, 2018
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 20 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 20
  3. Negative: 8 out of 20
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  1. mdbackes
    Mar 3, 2018
    10
    Ugly Delicious is a great show that really thinks about food as the endlessly moving target that it is. It's constantly surprising, occasionally exhausting, and genuinely interesting. What becomes very clear when watching it, is that David Chang and Peter Meehan really have something to say and that Morgan Neville was the right person to help them show it. Hard to pick a favoriteUgly Delicious is a great show that really thinks about food as the endlessly moving target that it is. It's constantly surprising, occasionally exhausting, and genuinely interesting. What becomes very clear when watching it, is that David Chang and Peter Meehan really have something to say and that Morgan Neville was the right person to help them show it. Hard to pick a favorite episode, though the show about tacos was pretty epic. Loved it.… Expand
  2. hypeatia
    Mar 15, 2018
    9
    I love this show both for the food and its willingness to explore the culture and politics around it. And also explore how we influence each other with the things we cook, so that in a way, food becomes a part of a shared understanding, and the way we reach out to one another.
    I hope there are more seasons! And loving the cameos - as a fan of both David Simon and Gillian Anderson, it was    I love this show both for the food and its willingness to explore the culture and politics around it. And also explore how we influence each other with the things we cook, so that in a way, food becomes a part of a shared understanding, and the way we reach out to one another.
    I hope there are more seasons! And loving the cameos - as a fan of both David Simon and Gillian Anderson, it was so cool to see them in the fried chicken episode.    … Expand
  3. Shanita
    Apr 5, 2018
    0
    The only thing ugly about this show is the host David Chang who while trying to get the audience to be more accepting of different cultures is completely racist himself.
  4. tkynut
    Jun 16, 2018
    3
    I started to like it until I got to Fried Rice and the constant rant against white people, Wow...give it a break people"
  5. Kurrjur
    Jul 25, 2018
    0
    This show started so good. The first episode was fantastic, but about 2/3 of the way through the second episode it got political and ruined it for me. Why couldn't they just make a documentary about food without bringing politics into it? They said here's a documentary about food and white guilt. Netflix is really starting to piss me.
  6. treestand
    Mar 18, 2018
    10
    I wasn't able to watch a single episode without needing to drive as far as necessary to find a meal similar to what was covered. This is less a cooking show and more of a series of history and sociology lessons surrounding amazing, and often overlooked, food choices. The taco episode may be my favorite episode of food related television I have ever seen. Amazing. Watch it.
  7. WildnOutAdvntr
    Apr 30, 2018
    0
    I was really excited when I heard about the series but was quickly disappointed when I started watching it. It reminds me of watching those old off channel cooking shows. I'll stick to TV Food and Cooking Network.

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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Dorothy Rabinowitz
    Feb 23, 2018
    80
    A wholly captivating tour exhaustive in its detail, which may or may not leave us with a deeper understanding of who we are, or of other cultures, though it’s likely to induce intense cravings to eat.
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  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Feb 23, 2018
    100
    Ugly Delicious is informative, entertaining, and enriching, and I can’t recommend it more highly.
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  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Feb 23, 2018
    50
    The visual curlicues and the attempts to impose a larger thematic structure and narrative--there’s an awful lot of tired talk about how food tells stories--don’t hide the reality that there isn’t a whole lot new or surprising about Ugly Delicious. (The exception: the openness with which it discusses racism as a fundamental force in culinary culture.
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