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 […]
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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 […]
Early on this season, we were critical of “Top Chef Seattle” for a number of things, in between the returning players twist and the new “Last Chance Kitchen” twist that potentially gives chefs three kicks at the can. However, there’s really nothing negative that we can say at all about this episode that aired the […]
We remain polarized about “Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen” in many ways. On one side of the coin, we love having a show like this that allows us the opportunity to see more “Top Chef” every week; at the same time, there is still a part of us that believes that one chance is really […]
When we first saw that there were three returning contestants on “Top Chef: Seattle,” we were pretty disgusted. Why? It seemed that these people were going to have a ridiculous and unfair advantage in the competition, mostly because they had been through the stress before and knew exactly what to expect. However, this has by […]
We’re a couple of days late on “Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen” this week, but for those of you who want to stay updated on the Bravo web series without really watching it religiously, we’re here to help. With both CJ and Tyler getting a chance to stick around thanks largely in part to them […]
