The team in question, a couple, one of whom was American, had absolutely no idea how to run a restaurant. How they even managed to get on the show remains something of a mystery to me. She is a wannabe-actress and he a wannabe-musician. She ran the front of the house into the ground and he didn't run the kitchen at all; he was far more interested in setting up his drum kit than ensuring a successful dinner service. Last night they had to figure out how much to charge for dishes and couldn't work out exactly what their expenses were (pretty much just the cost of the food) and how much they were going to have to charge in order to turn a profit.

It was like they woke up one morning, decided they wanted to be in the restaurant business, and thought that a reality show was the perfect way to make this new-found dream come true. Maybe I'm too cynical, but I think they really just wanted to be in front of the camera in order to boost their acting and music profiles.

One person who certainly shouldn't be in front of the camera, ever, is Dylan Krieger (Bitsie Tulloch), star of NBC's quarterlife (the Herskovitz-Zwick production that was on the web and has now been put on TV). This character, the center of the show, is a mid-20s wannabe writer who has opted to start a website giving all of her personal opinions about her friends – who they love, who they hate, and what she thinks about it. She is then shocked and upset when her friends get angry. Gee, I wonder why.

Judging from the ratings, I was one of the few people who watched it last night, and I'm going to watch again on Sunday (when the next episode airs), but I generally don't do well with self-obsessed individuals like Dylan, so I'm not sure how much I'll watch beyond Sunday.

The show is just teen angst pushed back into people's mid-20s. Worse than that though, the first episode featured wholly one-dimensional, stock characters who acted in entirely predictable (and inane) ways. I hope that just because it was made for "new media" that doesn't mean that they figured they could use old characters and no one would notice. I guess I'll find out on Sunday.