An action-packed slog

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

It is really unpleasant to watch. It comes across as superficial and unlikable. I cannot think of anything that makes me desirous of the storyline in this host's show. Just seems pretentious and fake.

Is her husband a mason or something and he got her a show on Food Network? I don't see mind blowing talent.. I expected it to be the country version of the Barefoot Contessa show but nope. The whole theme of the show - ranch life, feeding the kids etc is smart but there is something about this woman that makes me cringe. First off I'm from Europe, I love the country and so I love some good old American country living, but as most women of this day and age, the Pioneer Woman tries too hard to fit into the country girl stereotype and be cute and "sweet", it comes off fake and forced - that voice and smile!! Also too much advertising of her personal life - in one episode she referred to her honeymoon time and how she got pregnant and implied the obvious - This to me appears cheap "hey I know I look all nerdy but I get laid with a guy hotter than me and y'all need to know!". Nothing more gross than a conservative nerd talking about her sexual life on a cooking show! And if you consider the butt pics she takes of her husband, that's just low and creepy. Lastly, I agree with the other viewers, her cooking is loaded with butter, fat cheeses, carbs, and some more butter. As an athlete I am loving recipes that are light and balanced and I'm always waiting to see one protein serving and one carb but it's usually all fat & random carb servings in one meal in a desperate chase to make everything indulging. It's food for women on PMS, eternally! ..you know the days when you go crazy and crave something dirty and fattening. I wouldn't eat any of what she makes even on cheat day. Other than that I only watch it from time to time because of the ranch view.

Aside from the ever-so infamous 'Mystery Diners', this show is probably one of the most scripted on the whole Food Network. Sitting through and listening to Ree's voice in this show is a punishment in itself. Her little jokes that she throws in? Nope, I didn't even crack a smile. It just left me staring at the screen, saying to myself, "...Why?!" . When she's on camera with her family, she acts in this way that is almost unsettling, and you can tell by the looks on her family's faces. It's not only Ree's personality and delivering of lines that makes this show so awful, but her recipes aren't the best thing in the whole world. They're decent at best, bland in the middle, and full of sugar and things terrible for you at worst. Hopefully, you'll be smart and wait until an actual quality show comes on. At best, this show is background noise for whatever you're doing.

please make this entertaining. I am sooooo SICK of hearing about her kids and her husband and how life is perfect. Make me some mac and cheese and get off the lithium, please. Why does EVERY episode have to be about her kids and seeing stupid pictures of her perfect kids and her perfect family. I get it, already. I feel like I'm watching Snow White drunk on wine and gushing over her seven dwarfs. Someone needs to make a parody of this show. On the plus side, she is a good cook. She makes a mean chicken pot pie. Slow down on the sugar, too. There must be a lot of diabetics out there on the farm. This is a cooking show, or is it?