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TV Talk Discussion Group
I am so happy Zoi is gone. She had not made one memorable dish. Richard probably was in trouble, but he had some great dishes if they looked at their past record where as Zoi has not really done anything great. It is funny that Jen is all about Zoi and Zoi is all about herself.
I'm with Dale on his dickish behavior. She made Bacon. With. Glaze. All I can think about is Tre cooking his but off last season for a pile of books and this chick cooks bacon and goes to Italy. Seriously?
I think Spike hit the nail on the head when he said that someone with immunity in a team challenge kind of needs to take a back seat. A lot of times in team challenges, the other team members will wuss out and defer to someone with immunity, because they seem to think that person is a stronger chef/leader. Of course, we’ve seen cheftestants with immunity who did hang back, only to get chastised for it – told that knowing you have immunity isn’t an acceptable reason for checking your chef skills at the door and letting something you believe to be inferior product leave the kitchen with your name attached. So no matter what they chose to do they would be wrong.
I would really love to have someone in the kitchen say to Tom when he dropped by to snoop, "You're a judge, not a mentor. I'm not telling you a thing." I guess it would be suicide, but I'd like it better than Richard's sucking up.
I am so sick of team challenges.
Stephanie is probably the best female cheftestant since Tiffani and LeAnn. I miss Harold!
I finally saw the show this weekend, Mimi. I agree that I was very happy to see Zoi go. I also agree that I liked other contestants from other shows much better than this bunch. Remember my comment on Jason's dreads in another topic? It is not that I dislike dreads - they can be quite hot on the right head, lol - I just dislike them on Jason. It is too Tiny-Timish for me, especially when he brought out the ukulele last week and started warbling Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Why am I bringing this up now, lol - because I can't stand Richard's fringe on top of his head! It looks ridiculous on him. Like if George Bush were to appear one day on screen with a mohawk. I look at him and laugh. And he is one of the best cooks there, but that hairdo freaks me out! I also hate Spike's wardbrobe of hats. And his assish attitude goes with the hats. I agreed with him that Antonia should have taken a step back and let Zoi and him do their thing, but I was so happy to see one of them go, that I am glad they didn't. Now I want Spike gone next.
And as aside on Hell's Kitchen. I love Gordon Ramsey. I love his British shows and I loved the shows he did this fall on turning around restaurants in the states. I had tried Hell's Kitchen before, hated it, and thought, hey, I am going to give it a try again. I still hate it. I can't believe these people are for real. The guy with the three-foot, or however big it was, Chef's hat?? It is truly The Bachelor of cooking shows, only much worse. Gordon, Gordon, Gordon - he came down a few pegs for me with this show. Top Chef is a class act compared to this travesty of a cooking show.
I still think he is hot, though! I would love him to be a guest chef on Bravo - that would bring up the drama meter to over the top and boiling hot! I can just imagine him knocking one of Spike's hats right over his head, and spitting Richard's mushy salmon and scales out on the plate. Well, f***k me, one of his favorite expressions!
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I have to disagree. How is a chili relish more complex and win-worthy than what she did with the bacon, which judges agreed was a very different and interesting technique they hadn't seen before? Not to mention, if it weren't for Lisa, they would have followed Dale straight to the bottom with a lame deviled egg. Dale deserved spit. If anything, that win came down to between Lisa and Stephanie, not Lisa and Dale.
I don't believe it would have made one iota of difference if Spike and Zoi had prevailed with the soup idea. They are both mediocre cooks who would have made a lousy, run-of-the-mill butternut squash soup. If they really thought that was the way to win, they shouldn't have gone along with Antonia. If you're truly Top Chef material, you don't let people steamroller you into doing things you don't want to do--which happened to Zoi more than once in this competition. Spike is lucky that Zoi hanged herself this week by underseasoning everything.
It's pretty clear to me now that the reason for so many team challenges is the producers feel they generate more drama (i.e. cheftestants acting like moronic jerks in front of the camera). It also looked like there was an awful lot of booze in the stew room (beer and presumably leftover Prosecco from the Air Team's challenge). They don't need to do that kind of stuff. This isn't HELL'S KITCHEN.
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