Joel McHale and ‘Crime Scene Kitchen’ Team Promise Season 3 Contestants Aren’t Less Skilled — the Game Has Just Gotten Much Harder
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business Writer Watching the third season premiere of Fox‘s mystery bakeoff competition “Crime Scene Kitchen” might have elicited quite a few “Come on!” groans from viewers at home.
From missing clues under sinks and in trash cans to not reading explicit instructions closely to making dishes that completely ignored certain ingredients that were laid out plainly for them, the Season 3 contestants who made their debut in the Sept.
26 episode seemed to stumble more than the crop of competitors who appeared in Season 2. Well, at least to those of us sitting comfortably at home, where we can play arm-chair baking detective at an expert level and yell out obvious directions to the bakers scouring the “Crime Scene Kitchen” on the Joel McHale-hosted series. “Now that people know the show, thank God, they know there’s a lot of tricks now.
On top of that, it is much different when you are in the actual crime scene than when you’re sitting at home,” McHale told Variety. “When you’re sitting at home, you’re gonna just ace ‘Jeopardy.’ You just nail that singing question: it’s freaking Lionel Richie!
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