Quality lowers after first season

derekmludlow

The first season was excellent. Each episode let the viewer learn something new about the bar business and really understand why establishments were failing, despite many of them having seen success in the past. Somewhere around midway through the second season, however, Bar Rescue degrades into Jerry Springer with alcohol.

After the first season, Mr. Taffer has apparently said all he can say or is willing to say about the bar business and the show devolves into a series of yelling matches with drunk and belligerent owners. These farcical exchanges become less and less believable as the series goes on. Clearly the bar owners and bar staff are being selected based on how outlandish they can pretend to be.

I kept watching hoping that it would get better again, but if I could go back in time I would pretend only the first season existed and stop watching there. The first season gets a 10/10 and the rest gets a 0/10.

score 3/10

derekmludlow 5 June 2014

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