MasterChef was pretty weak tonight. It was the “jerk-you-around” episode that sets the competition a step back. The only thing worse would be a clip show.
I’m OK with that as long as they’re actually cooking. I even prefer that to some of the ridiculous team challenges that don’t really tell you how good a cook some of these people are as opposed to how well they can not burn 100 steaks. And at least goddamned Ryan didn’t get back in the competition.
Must be galling to Ryan to find he not just lost, but didn’t get a single vote for his tart.
Glad to See Kimmie got the axe last night.
The tough-talking ghetto railer park chick couldn’t cook catfish…bwahahahahahahahahaa
Next up: Robyn, or should I say Al Pacino’s sister…Hoooo-ahhhhhh!
My prediction for the finalists: Christina and Dana.
I’m thinking Justin has a shot. Based solely on his not being screamed at very much.
I wish Robyn could get a benevolent plastic surgeon to donate his/her services.
Her mouth is upside down.
~VOW
Who puts Maraschino cherries in a fruit tart?
Yeah. I really like the fact that Josh won 6-0 versus whatever that dumb ass’s name was.
Master Chef is better at giving straightforward hints than HK is. When a couple of people commented on the quality of the tart cut - and on the cherries - I was pretty sure they were guessing it was Ryan, and he was dead.
She’s dishy, but when she’s delivering her catty comments she sounds really, really stupid.
I guess I have to take that back. Bye Felix.
I know that it’s way late in the game to just be learning background on the various contestants, but is Christine supposedly totally blind?
If that is indeed the story, I am frankly more than a little skeptical about her actual level of visual impairment , as her techniques and presentations seem SO polished, SO meticulous, SO perfectly refined as to make it seem almost impossible for someone completely without sight to be able to actually pull off with such perfect style, flair and finesse.
Obviously this is all merely my unscientific, uneducated opinion, but if she really is supposed to be (as the saying goes) “Blind as a Bat”, I am just not seeing it…
Eh, I just find the oblivious clods far more annoying the the screeching harpies. Maybe because I deal with a lot of them at work. The screeching harpies may think they’re intimidating, but they have no real power and usually burn out after just a few minutes. The oblivious clods are utterly wrapped up in themselves and never, ever know when to quit. Royce was a perfect example of this, and he wasn’t a quarter as slovenly as Clemenza.
Are we actually going to start handicapping the remaining field? Okay, I’m game.
Favorite: Justin. Much like umpiring, if nobody remembers you on Hell’s Kitchen, you did great. Every season GR puts in at least one “man to beat”, and Justin fits the bill here. A few mistakes, but nothing he couldn’t quickly recover from. Against this field, that’s almost a lock.
Dark, cantankerous horses: Cristina, Dana. If they learn from their mistakes, they’ll give Justin a serious challenge. If they buy into this “get Barbie” crap, they’re done for. We’ll see.
Puncher with one eye swollen shut and a broken rib’s chance: Barbie. She’s weathered the storm remarkably well. When the storm ends and she actually has to prove she’s better than everyone else, that’s when the problems begin. Will she realize that outlasting Tiffany and Kimmie really isn’t that great an accomplishment in time?
Cannon fodder: Brian. Running on fumes.
Repulsive cannon fodder: Clemenza, Robyn. Exuding fumes.
(P.S. No one’s going to get on my case for saying that Fox got the Olympics this year? I don’t know whether to be relieved or mystified.)
Ok, I rarely post in these threads but I just need to get this off my chest regarding MC.
Wtf. Why the hell was David allowed to stay AGAIN? I mean, they said his dish was inedible AND he had a huge advantage. I mean, he already survived an elimination where they threw his dish in the trash. Does this guy have connections to the mob or something?
AngelSoft took the words right out of my mouth. David has been mediocre-to-bad week after week, and when he finally got a stroke of good luck, he squandered it all by being a total dumbass, forgetting his main frickin’ ingredient, and even when Becky came to his rescue with the rice, he STILL made a disgusting looking dish the judges could barely swallow. Does he have incriminating pictures of Gordon, Graham, and Joe having group sex with farm animals, or what?
Felix got screwed. No way did she deserve to go home before David. And I’m not just saying that because I think she’s smokin’ hot and would like to do naughty things with her, some of them possibly involving sushi. 
HK feels like its going to be so bad that nobody deserves to win. I get that Justin’s the frontrunner, he hasn’t screwed up as much as the others, but the others are such bottom-feeding crap that its not really an accomplishment.
David on Masterchef deserves to go, for all the reasons that the above 2 posters said. Damn you Becky for keeping him around!
Given David’s shitty track record, barely surviving elimination challenges week after week, I think they’re only keeping him around for drama. I’m sure there’s no way he’ll win, but I bet the producers are thinking that if they eliminate all the “interesting characters” then no one will watch. For the same reason, I think they’ll keep Monti around for a while - the cattiness and comments the other contestants make about David and Monti, and their reactions to them, get so emphasized in the show that I think the producers wouldn’t know what to do if they were gone too soon.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Becky, Christine, Frank and Josh just cook fabulous dishes and have a good competition with 20% of the manufactured “drama” in the current show, but I’m not sure if as many people would tune in.
**Waenara ** I actually get the feeling though, that unlike David, Monti is a very good cook. I do agree though that it’s probably more for the drama and thus ratings that David is still around. I wonder if he realizes it and if he does, does he even care? I know I’d feel like crap in his position.
As much as I hate Monti and agree with Joe that she’s just doing schtick, I think she has ability. She won’t beat Christine or Becky (or possibly that guy who isn’t Josh or David).
And speaking of David, AngelSoft took the words right out of my mouth. He had an advantage and fucked it up because he’s a joke. Then someone helped him out and gave him the ingredient he needed, or an acceptable replacement, and he fucked up again. How is it that Felix did worse than that? Complete BS.
Well, I do actually think Monti is a good cook - definitely better than most of the other competitors give her credit for. I just think that the sniping and bitching back and forth when the others insult her is probably good for ratings, so she might end up lasting a little longer than she might have if it was based purely on talent. I think she could get to the top three, but I can’t picture her winning it.
As to the second part of your post, I think David is pretty oblivious. He kept talking about how he wanted the “Flavor Elevator” dude to get back in the competition so he could personally beat him, and he keeps saying that the others underestimate him. When Monti says the same thing, I believe her. When David says it, I think he’s a little deluded.