In Quarantine Cooking Show ‘Selena + Chef,’ Selena Gomez Is Fryin’, Fryin’, Fryin’

“I’m tryin’, I’m tryin’, I’m tryin’, I’m tryin’, I’m tryin’,” Selena Gomez croons in the opening background music for her new quarantine cooking show,. The lyrics, from Gomez’s 2017 hit track “Bad Liar,” are an accurate summation of the singer-actress’s culinary efforts for HBO Max. Despite her fame, wealth, and legions of fans, Gomez kind of sucks at cooking, but at least she’s gamely willing to try. To that, I must applaud, “Good for you.

In each episode, Gomez is paired with a famous chef — the full list includes Angelo Sosa, Antonia Lofaso, Candice Kumai, Daniel Holzman, Jon & Vinny, Ludo Lefebvre, Nancy Silverton, Nyesha Arrington, Roy Choi, and Tanya Holland — who guides her through a signature recipe, ranging in difficulty from ramen to seafood tostadas.

Gomez is a blank slate of a host: both inoffensively charming and relatable in her sweats, in her laments about lacking a boyfriend, and in her confusion over how to navigate her kitchen. The first time she wields a knife, clumsily chopping chives for Lefebvre’s classic French omelet, I find myself wishing she would slow down, look at her knife now, and keep her hands — and her fingers, splayed perilously close to the blade — to herself.

Naturally, those novices don’t have the benefit of a professional chef on the opposite side of the screen, acting as both patient tutor and encouraging helpline whenever Gomez fumbles a step, like burning her version of cookbook author Kumai’s matcha chocolate chip cookies. Lefebvre himself overcooks an omelet, showing that even the pros aren’t infallible. All you can really do is shrug it off and try again, as Lefebvre demonstrates.

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