This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
Top Chef:
Dale kept getting teamed with the wrong people.
Yeah, that's true, but that's partially Dale's own fault because he was assy early and people think that he's going to be a problem on a team. It was a huge advantage for Antonia to be able to pick her team for Restaurant Wars (which wasn't a trainwreck, whoo!), and Dale saw the short end of that.
Anyway, I cannot believe we're still stuck with both Lisa and HatAss. Gah.
As for this crew, can we just send them all home now?
That's what the friends I was watching with said too!
Oh, Lisa seriously believes that she never makes mistakes with her food. And yet. . .
I'm so excited that Stephanie won and won a great prize.
I hope that Lisa goes next week. Hey, she made her goal.
I recorded AI (so I could FF through the boring crap) and forgot about the whole "oh this is going run over" part. Which meant that I got to the end, Ryan Seacrest said the winner was "David--" and the recording cut off.
I shit you not.
I can't believe that either Spike or Lisa are going to end up in the final four. SO WRONG.
Okay, the preview shot of all five of the remaining cheftestants holding hands while facing judges table is kind of freaking my shit out. That's a sight I'd never expect to see in a million years. I wonder what that's about.
I'm wondering about next week, too. It looked like Tom was working front of house or something.
I can't believe that either Spike or Lisa are going to end up in the final four. SO WRONG.
I know. I mean, seriously, has Spike done anything memorable besides be an asshat? And Lisa ... oh, dear god, she needs to go. The degree to which she's blind to her own faults is staggering. And she was totally a complete tattle-tale in school, wasn't she? The pair of them are truly horrid.
Stephanie, Richard and Antonia I'm all right with.
Man, I hope Bourdain does a blog for this episode. I cannot WAIT.
DEAR SPIKE AND LISA,
OMFGGETOFFMYTVNOW
The thing is, though, Dale clearly does not have the chops to be an executive chef. He was just like Nikki in the Wedding Wars - deciding early on that his team was too irritating to deal with (understandable given the players involved) and abdicating all responsibility for his kitchen. And he failed to really cook anything good enough to make up for that. He's clearly a talented cook, but mentally he's just not up to this kind of competition.
I have no idea how Spike's lasted this long. The only really standout dish he's made was that idiotic soup, and the only reason THAT was so good was because he fucked over his teammates by not helping with anything else on the menu. This week was the same thing - he didn't even COOK his dish! His one dish. Which he took credit for even though HE DIDN'T FUCKING COOK IT.
I'm not sure why Lisa thinks she can cook "Asian" food (and bless you, Tony B, for pointing out that Asia is, in fact, a pretty big place) when she can't even cook rice. Seems like a pretty basic skill to not have.
Dale's own fault because he was assy early and people think that he's going to be a problem on a team.
Yeah there's no way Antonia would have picked him for her team.
I'm not sure why Lisa thinks she can cook "Asian" food (and bless you, Tony B, for pointing out that Asia is, in fact, a pretty big place) when she can't even cook rice.
MADDENING!!! Come on! I've cooked sticky rice! it's not that hard! (even though her's was a toothless tranny mess it did make me crave mango sticky rice like whoa. I'll have to make it to the sat. farmer's market this weekend where there's a stall that has it. YUM!)
