Okay:
TAR: Very enjoyable. I was a bit surprised to see the shared antipathy between the Hippies and Mojo. At least Fran and Barry got to win a leg before they said goodbye.
Alias: OMG, Alias has been so enjoyable since it's return. It was just fun and funny all the way through. I mean there was Will! And Anna Espinosa! And Rambaldi! And Spy!Granpa saying something about not leaving edged weapons around babies, "Especially Bristow girls," and providing the most amusing government trained babysitters ever! Did you laugh out loud when they revealed that Will had a bomb in his head? So so funny.
Top Chef: Seriously, I think the big place they went wrong was in deciding to pull an all-nighter. And there was really no reason for it. Plus, at the point at which Harold got to the fish counter and realized that he wasn't going to find the kind of fish he wanted -- he really should have gone to LeeAnne and said, "Give me 'x' amount of money - I'll pick up the fish in the morning." I think that the boxed cake was a TERRIBLE idea -- esp. when one of your clients says that dessert is his thing. They should have bought what they could that first day, baked the cake and then planned on rising very early and getting to the fish market first thing. They didn't even start serving hors d'oeuvres (sp?) until 3:30 -- right ? And really, Stephen was asking to be eliminated. You don't get told to do something by a judge in one episode and then turn right around and not do it the next challenge. The funny and yet sad thing is that Stephen has not one clue that he did anything wrong.
Back to Alias - it was so much fun to see Syd and Will again. And the wacky accents? "Was he speaking in Portuguese?" "That's a dead language!" - or something. . . in ridiculous Mock!French accents.