Much prefer the UK version

I've seen both. I don't really have a preference. They each have good/bad elements. I just enjoy them differently.

As a US viewer, i enjoyed seeing the different european locales and learning about the different foods. But some of the slang/jargon was lost on me and i found i had to look up what some phrases meant (or just ended up guessing). But i do like the UK version of Gordon much more.

One of the things that i really disliked about the US version was the announcer. I just didn't like the tone and volume of his voice. I preferred hearing Gordon narrate the episode. I also didn't like how each time we came back from commercial, we had to have a recap of what we just saw. I may have a short attention span, but i can remember what just happened a minute ago.



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I like the UK version better too. While they get upset they are much more mature than the whiny crybabies here in the US. Fish and Anchor is a fave.

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Then I saw there was a US version...and I was not surprised how "Americanized" it was. That, the editing (funny how the clips have people wearing the same clothes at the end as the interview in the beginning)

Not only that, but there are times when they're supposedly doing an 'after' confessional, but they're wearing the clothes from 'before' (I specifically posted about this in the "Mama Rita's" episode.)

and how I felt they told Gordon "turn it up a notch." He was blunt on the UK version, just not as loud as the US version. I don't mind watching the US version, I just feel for those watching it they're missing the real version and hope they get a chance to see it someday.

Yes, he DEFINITELY was told (or told himself?!) to turn it up...many notches! I recently argued with someone on the MasterChef Junior board who insists that Ramsay's "true" personality is the way he behaves on Hell's Kitchen, and therefore that MUST be how he treats his own children, i.e., as a raving maniac who yells, throws things, etc. He insisted that since THAT is how Gordon behaves on HK, it only follows that that's his REAL personality. I asked if he'd ever seen the UK version of KN, and he hadn't. I said that RKN pre-dates HK by several years, and Gordon is civil and calm in it, therefore--by his own reasoning!--THAT must be Ramsay's true personality. 

I'm pretty sure there will be no more KN in the UK for sure...and that's a shame.

Are you unaware of its revival last year? There were only a few episodes, but in it Gordon traveled to various places that British ex-pats had settled in--and had failing restaurants. Just like in the original RKN, Gordon was civil, calm, etc. Oh, sure, there's the occasional 'sh!t' and F word, but none of the yelling, screaming, hysterics that we see on KN. (BBCA repeats the new RKN, so keep an eye out for it.)


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