Why They Won't Release The New Season of Chef's Table.

Because it will flop.

Let’s turn on the time machine.
Why did we obsess over the show?

1. Fine dining was a mystery;

2. For cooks, we were interested in the process, the BTS;

3. The drama, the ups and downs of their lives.

That was then, 2019.

To be honest, I did not remember any episodes past season 2. I think I watched the Ivan Orkin episode and realised I could’ve just read his cookbook.

Anyway, point.

My point is, it’s been five years, and we have not heard a peep since season 6 of Chef’s Table.

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I have not seen The Bear, but have been reminded of that episode - with ‘one single cut’, was the epitome of drama in the kitchen.

And rightfully so.

Photographers and videographers were going gaga over CT’s use of the Epic-X Red Dragon camera and Leica lenses, but now that technology has caught up, the documentary approach can’t compete against a full team of scriptwriters, directors, lighting and effects, cinematographers, and beautiful actors who could go action and cut over and over again.

So that’s drama off the list.

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If you search hard enough, there’s a short or clip or reel of a diner in Chicago’s Alinea. It made me think:

So glad I didn’t go and spend $500 on that in 2017.

And

That was low-key wanky.

And

I don’t think the restaurant will be happy about this, but they are probably powerless.

Against the phone. The darn phones.

The mystery of fine dining is getting sucked off by phones like air purifiers filtering PM2.5 particles.

The scenes are changing, and most importantly, since 2019, the restaurants and chefs are probably all in limbo - moved, closed down, relocated.

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But I object. (Yes you can do that to your own writing.)