“Rachael Ray Show” potentially annoying
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Carefully tailored to service the soccer mom crowd racing between work and kids and shopping, “The Rachael Ray Show” is a syndicated daytime talk show-cum-pep rally targeting viewers who are double-parked.
It moves along in energetic rat-a-tat-tat style via a series of manic Rachael McNuggets that casts Oprah’s very own handpicked youngster as a whirlwind of hyperkinetic charisma. Indeed, the opening hour depicts the former host of Food Network’s wildly popular “30-Minute Meals” as a woman in need of
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Ritalin to slow it down, modulate her pitch and try a little less hard. Ray has an inherent likability and is certainly easy on the eyes, but she doesn’t talk to us so much as screams and she might want to consider taking a more leisurely approach. As it is, it’s all she can do to keep from using the adoring audience as her mosh pit.
Happy to be here after spending the past five years “talking to vegetables,” Ray emerges to a cool, loftlike brick set (it spins!) and hip R&B theme music. She quickly (everything here is quick) pours herself a cup of completely unnecessary coffee that she sips while reminiscing at the set’s kitchen table. Ray’s occasionally squeaky voice is even more adorably anxious than usual, but the crowd clearly already views her as royalty on Day 1 — screaming wildly with her every breathless piece of jabber. She packs a lot of show — too much, actually — into the kickoff that’s punctuated by her cuddly asides designed to establish a connection with Jane America. more…
