‘MasterChef’ USA season 4 review: Are Luca Manfe, Krissi Biasiello, Natasha Crnjac in finale?

The road to the “MasterChef” finale is complete, with us now finally getting to know the two competitors who will be squaring off next week in a culinary clash of the titans. You had to be amazing to make it this far, but there can only be two that get to that final, super-exciting stage of the contest.

Let’s start by talking about the contestant that we said goodbye to in fourth place: Krissi Biasiello. We don’t imagine that she will be missed by many, given that she was at times cruel, loud, and not likable most of the season. Was she pretty talented? Sure, but it would be a disaster had she won the season given the public perception of her.

We don’t want to waste much time talking about Krissi, mostly because the top three episode was more than entertaining to make us forget about that nasty episode beforehand. After a challenge that more or less determined their advantages in the final stages of the competition, Luca Manfe, Natasha Crnjac, and Jessie Lysiak squared off in an intense competition themed all around “kings”: The king crab, Kobe beef, and the king of cheese. There were a couple of especially notable, entertaining moments in here:

1. Luca acting like he was not some sort of master of cheese, even though he loves the stuff, in an attempt to get an advantage from challenge winner Natasha.

2. Natasha refusing to give Jessie some butter in order to help her out, while Luca did so. We probably wouldn’t have done that; there’s being a good person, but we’d take any advantage we could to help our family.

Luca at this point was carrying the hopes of “MasterChef” men everywhere at this point, given that a guy has never won the show before. Natasha was the first person to advance, and that was no shock given that she is probably going to win. She’s not always nice, but she is very, very good. And she will be joined by … Luca! Great news for Luca fans, and sad news for Jessie, who seemed like a pretty nice person.

What did you think about this “MasterChef” episode? If you want to check out some more news related to the show, including where we ranked these contestants prior to the show, just be sure to visit the link here.

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