Next level chef is a bizarre show with a massive identity crisis. It does not know what it wants to be. Is it a cooking competition or Is it a game show? The truth is that is that it's neither. The game is much to unfairly balanced to be an actual cooking competition like master chef and it's premise takes itself way to seriously to be a game show like cutthroat kitchen.
The show itself is just weird to watch. It tries and fails with the whole "mentor" angle as we never actually see any of the mentors actually helping their team in any way. The incredibly unfair premise of the competition is constantly undercut by the narrative of the editing, painting it as if skill can outweigh the odds placed on the chefs in the bottom kitchen when it's never the case (so far at least.)
If you want a game show cooking competition, watch cutthroat kitchen. If you want a cooking competition, watch MasterChef or top chef. Let next level chef descend into irrelevancy where is belongs.
The show itself is just weird to watch. It tries and fails with the whole "mentor" angle as we never actually see any of the mentors actually helping their team in any way. The incredibly unfair premise of the competition is constantly undercut by the narrative of the editing, painting it as if skill can outweigh the odds placed on the chefs in the bottom kitchen when it's never the case (so far at least.)
If you want a game show cooking competition, watch cutthroat kitchen. If you want a cooking competition, watch MasterChef or top chef. Let next level chef descend into irrelevancy where is belongs.