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The Final Table, Movie Review
Like any other cooking competition, The Final Table is primarily based on high stakes and time-limited food challenges. The show attracts a wide array of talent from different parts across the world. The contestants, for instance, come from Asian, Europe, North America, and other locations that have diverse cultures. The Final Table features a range of competing chefs who are not TV chefs but genuinely work from the kitchen day in day out. Recently, Netflix has experienced a huge endorsement from international subscribers. Therefore, one possible target audience for this show may be the worldwide food-obsessed viewers constantly appealed by the preparation of featured cuisines.
The Final Table is all about the preparation of food where one chef is picked as the winner. The show allows the chef to showcase their culinary professionalism and, as a result, win a seat at the ‘Table.’ The winner who gets to sit at the ‘Table’ is determined after nine episodes that consist of different culinary challenges that the chefs must overcome. A total of twelve teams made up of two chefs from around the globe are given the task of cooking national dishes. The participating countries include Mexico, Spain, Brazil, Japan, India, the United States, England, and Italy. The chefs compete and highlight different cuisine of each of these countries. Additionally, celebrities and popular food critics get to judge these unique flavors showcased by the chefs. One of the cooks, Spero, felt delighted with the show’s concept of meeting celebrity judges. According to him, it is exciting to meet such individuals, but at the same time, they throw a contestant off their game due to their celebrity status.
The chef who wins gets a chance to join internationally recognized chefs such as Enrique Olvera from Mexico, Yoshihiro Narisawa from Japan, among others. One good thing from the show is that the food challenges is that apart from being relatively simple, they covered a wide range of variety. Furthermore, the show’s frenzied trailer perfectly denotes the level of intensity present in the competition. The Spain Challenge, for example, proved difficult for Ch...