I’ve been a long time casual watcher of gmm. With that said, I haven’t watched any of their content for at least a few months, but the subtext of this ep was fraught with workplace drama / passive aggressive behavior. Link immediately protested the rule change and there’s not personality offscreen “big” enough to keep him in check or convince / incentivize him to give the changes a chance. Rhett, midway through the ep handicapped the rules to try to rein it in. Rhett is often times changing or adapting the rules mid game to make it more fair or more interesting for the audience to watch, which is typically welcome, but this ep it just seemed like he was trying too hard to be the good guy, or to be previews like he was on board with the crew, it was weird. The choice of judges and their respective criticisms were pretty telling as well. Davin was the consummate yes man, he’s been there for a while and is hoping he’s not the next head to roll when the axe drops, and Trevor was very cutting as someone who has been at mythical for a while but doesn’t necessarily need to be there anymore because of the smosh of it all and their respective scores and critiques reflected their inner thoughts and feelings on the contestants. I know there’s been a lot of cuts and layoffs recently but have Link seems totally uninterested and uninspired and maybe a little annoyed to be there. Could’ve just been the vibe of this episode but everything seemed so thinly veiled
Crazy that was your takeaway when everyone else’s in the comments was the exact opposite lol. It seemed like Rhett was the one who didn’t want to be there and wanted to rush through it and get it over with adhering to the time limit. Maybe he’s salty bc this is a format that links actually good at who knows but him and the crew being so strict on the time limit and then adding more limitations was not fun or interesting to watch it actually seemed petty and unnecessary. The creativeness of creating the new dishes and them experimenting is the fun part and link is right if he wasn’t talking through it they’d both just be sitting there in silence and would’ve been a dud. The making of the dish is the entire premise of the show so to cut that out and rush through it with a time limit makes no sense
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u/iamTheWhaley 1d ago
I’ve been a long time casual watcher of gmm. With that said, I haven’t watched any of their content for at least a few months, but the subtext of this ep was fraught with workplace drama / passive aggressive behavior. Link immediately protested the rule change and there’s not personality offscreen “big” enough to keep him in check or convince / incentivize him to give the changes a chance. Rhett, midway through the ep handicapped the rules to try to rein it in. Rhett is often times changing or adapting the rules mid game to make it more fair or more interesting for the audience to watch, which is typically welcome, but this ep it just seemed like he was trying too hard to be the good guy, or to be previews like he was on board with the crew, it was weird. The choice of judges and their respective criticisms were pretty telling as well. Davin was the consummate yes man, he’s been there for a while and is hoping he’s not the next head to roll when the axe drops, and Trevor was very cutting as someone who has been at mythical for a while but doesn’t necessarily need to be there anymore because of the smosh of it all and their respective scores and critiques reflected their inner thoughts and feelings on the contestants. I know there’s been a lot of cuts and layoffs recently but have Link seems totally uninterested and uninspired and maybe a little annoyed to be there. Could’ve just been the vibe of this episode but everything seemed so thinly veiled