“Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen” is doing a pretty great job at the moment in cultivating some pretty awesome showdowns. After all, last week we had Kristen Kish face off against the woman who stay in the competition over her in Josie; and now, she had to take on the man who jokingly called her […]
When “Top Chef: Seattle” stepped on board a cruise ship for its new episode Wednesday night, all bets were really off. Why? There are some big difference between cooking in the sea and cooking on land, and it is pretty easy to allow for the cramped space, the locks on the devices, and having electric […]
There was an extra layer of drama on “Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen” this week, and some may even call it culinary justice: Josie Smith-Malave facing off against a woman in Kristen Kish who many believed should have stayed in the competition over her. As a matter of fact, there’s no doubt in our mind […]
One week after the stunning elimination of Kristen Kish on “Top Chef: Seattle” (even if it was the right move for the integrity of the show, given their history of eliminating frontrunners for a bad week), everything is starting to seem right with the world again. This week brought us a fairly simply challenge that […]
We were off on Wednesday and thus missed our weekly rant about “Top Chef,” so instead we are using to kick off the latest installment of “let’s talk ‘Last Chance Kitchen’” instead: Kristen Kish’s elimination was shocking, infuriating, but also appropriate to the show’s principal rule of judging each contestant on the body of work […]
Restaurant wars is in some ways an acquired taste on “Top Chef.” At first, we actually did not really care for this episode every year because it often caused so much compromise between the chefs that it was hard to really differentiate who did what, and who actually deserved to go home. However, this week […]
Following Wednesday night’s new episode of “Top Chef: Seattle,” it was pretty easy to be torn about John Tesar’s elimination. From one standpoint, it felt as though he was hosed in being forced to do a final cook-off against Lizzie to stay in the competition, mostly because her dish was even more of a disaster […]
If you appreciate it when “Top Chef” takes a look back into its own past for challenges, then odds are you probably ended up rather enjoying the all-new episode of the show that aired on Wednesday night. Not even product placement could drag down what was a pretty cool attempt by the nine remaining chefs to […]
Now that we are beyond New Year’s Day and into 2013, there is some great news for anyone out there who is a major TV fan: there is some new programming across multiple networks again for the first time really since the Christmas holiday. So what should you be aware of? This is what we’ve […]
For those of you who want to make an argument that returning players are bad for TV and for fairness, you may want to look at what is currently going on in the context of “Top Chef” as evidence. This season started with 18 chefs, and it included fifteen new chefs and three returning. When […]
