• 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. Negative: 8 out of 20
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  1. 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.
  2. 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"
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. 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.
  2. Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Feb 23, 2018
    100
    Ugly Delicious is informative, entertaining, and enriching, and I can’t recommend it more highly.
  3. 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.