The phoniest of all phony reality shows. OK, I have always maintained that EVERY reality show is fake. I used to say every reality show with the exception of COPS, JAIL, Bait Car and the ilk. But even those shows are fake, because cops and criminals wouldn't act the same way if are were not knowingly on camera. Cops watch their language and temper their actions and crims act up for the cameras. This was my 1st episode of "Mystery Diners" and I was amazed when I looked it up on IMDb to see that it had been on for 9 years. This episode was so phony it was funny. Literally every word and action from every 'cast member' was emoted to the nth degree. The host and the restaurant "train" owner were the worst. (although 90% of the dialog is uttered by these two) Doesn't anyone understand the capabilities of these so called drones. They are simply not capable of doing what was shown unless this show has some kind of astronomical budget, which I promise, it does not. The attachment of a tracking devise capable of the amazing accuracy, distance and detail shown here, would surely be easily detectable. My gosh, the garbage sack it was attached to didn't contain much. And what about the cost, how would it not be discovered by the final handler and how would they get it back? And the pitiful portions being stolen, who would go through that much effort to serve a couple of meals later at another restaurant miles away after having sat in a garbage bag all that time. The firing at the end and making the cook, the hostess and the 8 bogus diners walk home from as, the fired hostess put it, "the middle of nowhere". This is truly the professional wrestling of reality shows.
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