Being a fan since her Airstream days of her style and cooking, I have to say when your strip away her beginnings and personal story and just focus on her at her restaurant---now that she has money from book deal and cookbook---she becomes insufferable right before your/my eyes here. She isn't fake but the cringe factor spikes considerably in season two, barely making it past the exceptionally whiny "scone episode" and appears the content was fading fast enough to what appears to be a staged unplugged walk-in dilemma. I'm glad, in retrospect, that (pre-postcard) the reservation I requested some years ago, I couldn't actually do, due to conflicting vacationing days. We looked at each other after watching season 1, and said we wouldn't have fit in with these even more insufferable patrons as it was---traveling from all over to trip over themselves while ogling and fawning over a cheese plate. Her stylistic approach gets washed over by the pretention and douchiness. By the end of the first two "seasons" (season 2 is like 4 episodes) it was nothing more than a mercy watch, and a painful one. If watching a woman whine about her struggles during the pandemic, while sitting in her new Land Rover, and watching Biff, her new financier wander around the restaurant grounds---finally taking some episodes off to go sailing, you identify real quick what you're witnessing and it all comes across as tone deaf, and should. I have friends in the Portland area who really felt the pain and struggle during this same period and resorted to running a 3 person show to be able to pay the bills...while this show demonstrates just how oft putting not only the show is, but what she has become in such a short period of time.
Review of The Lost Kitchen
