I suspect that doing these things the hard way is part of the punishment. Much like lunch being some sort of disgusting Fear Factor challenge reject.
Did anyone count how many times the phrase “sweet potato mash” was repeated last night on MasterChef?
I’d like to see a season of Master Chef with Paula Deen as a full time judge. Just to see if she ever would say something non-sweet.
So glad Tiffany got eliminated from HK, so sick of her.
He had to put her somewhere. It’s really kind of unfair to have her around in that sort of challenge. Individually cooking, sure, she’s awesome, but she’s just not suited to working as a part of a team. Similarly the next ep, where there’s not really anything she could do to help when tagged out. She couldn’t see what her partner was doing, so couldn’t really tell her if she was doing stuff wrong. Frankly it sucks for the other girl that she got sent home on that challenge.
Except that Christine was the one telling Stacy what to do. Stacy had NO clue what she was doing. When it was Christine’s turn, she was at least getting things done, whereas Stacy was basically flapping around panicked and having Christine talk her through things, even though Christine was blind. Stacy was definitely the teammate who dropped the ball on that one.
It may just be me, but Masterchef is so refreshing and nice after HK. The fact that, even though they’re all competitors, they’re (mostly) acting like adults and not constantly talking shit about one another, there’s very few fights, and they seem genuinely sad to see the others get dropped from the game, even though that’s one less competitor. Compared to the shark tank that is HK this year, it’s just really nice.
Not to mention the fact that they aren’t unattractive trailer trash. Watching HK is like riding on Greyhound.
I don’t find Barbie, Christine or Justin unattractive.
Barbie looks like a pug.
I don’t know if Barbie is good looking or not. I can’t get past the awful faces she makes most of the time.
Sorry, totally disagree with you. Barbie has beautiful eyes and nice facial lines.
Dana’s pretty good looking too.
You can pretty much mix Tiffany, Robin, Kimmie and Clemenza in a big bowl of do-not-want though.
Barbie has shit for facial structure, no definition, all skull and jaw. I’d totally do Dana though.
Please no! I would not be able to watch it.
I see our friend Ryan makes a return next week. Yippy. He better leave my girl Monti alone.
Did anyone else notice the horrific editing on Master Chef? If you watch the Paula Deen segment…when the big mystery box is lifted, she’s wearing the gold sparkly shoes. Then during the competition she’s wearing some kind of black strappy shoes, then when she says goodbye and walks out the door, she’s wearing the gold shoes again.
Severe nitpick, I know, but things like this really bug me. It really shows how staged and scripted some of these shows are.
If that had been Giada and you focused on her shoes I’d be worried, but with Paula it makes sense.
You have to give credit to Paula for creativity though: asked what she wanted to see done with the ingredients she said “I’d like to see a really good fried chicken”.
I was joking with my girlfriend that she was going to say, “I just want a stick of butter.”
Christine said on her Twitter account that she wanted to prepare the salmon raw, because she actually doesn’t like cooked salmon. She said she was afraid the judges would think she was avoiding the challenge and ding her for it.
Heartily seconded. I realize these shows are edited to emphasize drama and conflict, but there is not a single HK contestant who I like enough to root for – I want them all to be eliminated, preferably by a kitchen explosion. And if one more of these mouth-breathing schmucks says “Are you KIDDING me!!!” in their sit-down interviews I’m gonna pull an Elvis on my TV.
What I like about MasterChef is not only that the people are generally more decent, but that you see the side of Gordon Ramsay that wants to help and mentor these people. That whole routine with Christine’s apple pie, that she was convinced was ruined but really wasn’t, almost had me in tears.
Hell’s Kitchen is another Jerry Springer-esque train wreck season. My husband and I used to enjoy watching it for the cooking but now it’s all about the drama and screaming and yelling and we just watch it for something to look at while we’re sitting around in the evening.
…and thanks to you guys every time I look at Robyn I see Steve Van Zandt. She’ll fit right in on the blue team because she looks like a dude anyway.
I had to laugh when someone (was it Christine?) grabbed Kimmie’s hands when she was about to hit Robyn. That took balls - I’d be hiding in another room if that rabid moose was on a rampage.
I totally agree. It’s the polar opposite of Hell’s “Producers Encourage The Drama” Kitchen.
Perhaps Masterchef is less dramatic because Gordon Ramsay is the producer, so he has the authority to tone it down?
Still watching Hell’s Kitchen. Like I said before, weirdly compelling…and I still got nuthin’ beyond that. It’s not been a highly pleasant experience. This could very well be the worst final 8 ever, although in fairness some of it is due to tossing no fewer than three candidates who clearly were not the worst remaining (IMO Guy was the most egregious one). Robyn, Kimmie, and Clemenza should be gone by now. Clemenza in particular. He screw up dishes, he’s filthy (and takes forever to clean up), he has no staying power, he never admits when he’s wrong, he’s loud and condescending and defensive, he doesn’t cooperate with anybody, he’s hard on the eyes. It’s not just a matter of not having what it takes to win, I’m not seeing any upside with him at all. How he ever outlasted Roshni, much less Guy, I haven’t a clue.
I’m in the minority here, but I didn’t mind the “fashion” challenge. HK is full of weird stuff like this (IMO the die-rolling one was infinitely worse), and the fashionistas did what they were brought on to do. Loved Robyn’s reaction, probably the only time I was actually entertained by her.
Is it just me, or does pretty much every VIP guest know exactly what they’re getting into? Not once did I see someone embarrassed or upset. Look at Tito Ortiz’s expression as GK went off. He was absolutely eating it up. IIRC, David Beckham enjoyed the show as well, and he’s the one who should have been mortified by a Brit flying off the handle on national television.
Someone brought this up on TWOP: Is the real reason for the irrational hatred of Barbie racism? I honestly can’t see any other justification. Would a TV show permit overt racism? Even reality TV has some standards.
With the possible exception of being filthy, you just described nearly every HK contestant.
And as far as attractiveness goes, Dana’s got them all beat at this point. She’s the dandelion in a field of crabgrass.