Ugly Delicious: Season 2

  • 21 Mar - 27 Mar, 2020
  • Mag The Weekly
  • TV TIME

A restaurant is, metaphorically speaking, a chef’s baby. It consumes their life, demanding tunnel-vision focus, round-the-clock attention, and above all, enough love and care to justify working 14-hour days. But what happens when the chef has an actual baby? The restaurant, the cooking, the singular focal point – “All of a sudden, that changes,” says chef Tom Colicchio in the season two premiere of Ugly Delicious, David Chang’s hit documentary series about food and culture. “You have something else that you’re responsible for.” A parent’s life can be divided into the stages B.C. (Before Child), and A.D. (After Delivery); for the majority of ‘Kids Menu,’ Chang exists somewhere in the middle, anxiously awaiting the birth of his first child. His Momofuku restaurants, he points out, have “more or less” been his kids since the first one opened in 2004. Really, though, if there’s one theme that undergirds this season, it’s that Chang owns up to what he doesn’t know. Of course, the greatest unknown thing in the Ugly Delicious universe is what comes next for Chang. Can he continue to burn the candle at both ends as his life is shown on the precipice of a momentous change? It’s undeniably compelling to see a chef like Chang, often referred to in the press as a “bad boy” in the early days of his career, crying multiple times throughout the episode: while telling his parents over the phone that his wife is expecting. All four episodes of the second season are now streaming on Netflix.

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