Iron Chef America micro-review

[prog]

It's more fun than I'd expect. Alton Brown is a perfect commentator and the main reason I stayed for the whole show, even though he looks weird with his hair forced down to his scalp like that.

They cast the right guy as chairman, but he is apparently directed to act like a Star Trek android, hokey and creepy, adding a note of overproduced bizarrity that doesn't mesh well with the rest of the show. It would probably be improved by dropping his character entirely, but I suppose then the show wouldn't have been Iron Chef-y enough.