Oh my god.
He shall be called “Flounder”
That is all for now.
It’s back? So soon?
I wanna know what they were teasing at the end. If it was as huge as the last scene insinuated there has to have been leaks.
My guess is it is completely unrelated and they will actually just be serving lunch to paramedics.
Jillian’s clown eyebrows are a bit disturbing. (Though admittedly not uncommon these days, I guess.)
Oh dear God, I hope they keep Raj to the end. He’s so unbalanced but he cracks my shit up. I need to see more drunken karate.
I think this has to be the least attractive reality show casting in history.
$5 says the medical emergency next week is a slip & fall on some raw halibut Ramsay palm-smashed.
Fox confirms it in the recap for next week’s ep:
Tough luck for Curtis. I got the impression that he’d never even seen sushi before coming to LA, so why the heck was he tasked with making it? His bio indicates that he got his start at Awful House, err, Waffle House.
Did the kitchen have pizza ovens before? I don’t remember seeing them and am curious why a “fine dining” restaurant would have them.
Too bad JP isn’t on board. The new maitre d’ isn’t all that interesting yet.
I don’t recall JP being interesting or getting much screen time in the earliest seasons.
It is my sincere hope that whatever took Antonia from the competition isn’t serious and she recovered quickly. However, there is a tiny part of me that suspects that she either was just and actress or volunteered to be first of and make some drama. The thing with the mouthy guy that asked Ramsay to step outside in the first ep of last season (or the one before. they’re starting to run together) seemed a little staged to me.
I miss JP!!
Anyone want to takes guesses on which contestants are/were plants?
I had no idea there was a new season. I’ll have to check when it’s on.
I’m getting a distinctly actor-y vibe from a few of the new “contestants,” particularly the hipster-glasses chick that Ramsay called out for yawning.
Mouthy guy was two ago. Last time was Gordon making kissy face with his wife in disguise as one of the contestants.
Why would they need “plants” when in the opening sequence that showed a couple of the contestants opening their acceptance letters, the voiceover said there were 10,000 applicants?
Yikes… 10,000 applicants, and these are the good people?
I’m assuming Raj will hang on until he either injures somone or stalks off in a semi-drunk, karate-chopping snit. Otherwise, I don’t think I’d trust him to heat up a TV dinner.
I really got the feeling that the woman ousted was only kicked because she was the most normal of all the nominees and they love keeping the trainwrecks around. No way they would have kicked Raj or the diva the first episode and missed all the impending drama.
I know it’s TV and I remember Gordon’s wife, but is there any proof that anyone in the past were plants? People are odd, why would anyone suspect anybody here was a plant? They all seem real enough to me
That said, I hate Sabrina already. What a stuck up, selfish bitch. I was hoping she’d go instead of Lisa, but Gordon usually likes to keep the mouthy ones around if they show a modicum of talent versus the older ones who seem just a little lost. Raj sucked as well but apparently most people think he is/should be kept around for comedy. I disagree, I think if Gordon really wants a good chef at a million dollar restaurant, he’d stop dicking around with these idiots and hire good people. Hell, I’ve never seen Sous Chef Scott mess up once, hire him!
That said, I love Gail, mainly because she’s Asian and could eat the plate of seafood without barfing. I love sea cucumbers! And Boris is great, love his Russian personality. I hope he ends up punching someone before the show’s over, like Trev
Finally, I’m happy they’re actually doing a restaurant where I’ll have the opportunity to eat at. I’ve been to LA Live and that restaurant looked absolutely amazing! I can’t wait to go there!
Just a suggestion, there’s probably not going to be enough talk about these eps for a thread every week, so maybe we should ask the mods to rename the topic title something like “Hell’s Kitchen Fall 2010” and keep discussing things here each week. Would anyone object to that?
Anyway, Raj is not right in the head. He’s good TV though, so that’s why he hasn’t already been kicked to the curb.
Likewise, the blonde girl with the glasses. She’s a total bitch and probably should’ve been the one eliminated the first ep, but she’s good for adding drama, so she stays.
And what in the world is with the opening credits? I know they’re usually kinda weird, but giant Gulliver Ramsey laying down just looks so bizarre.
No proof that I know of. I watched Sabrina’s little speech at the end (where she said the older lady was “finished”) twice, and thought the language and her facial expressions seemed forced, as though rehearsed.
The border between actor and “reality” contestant has always been porous, however, so it’s hard to tell. Is it an aspiring actor playing a deliberate character, or just a “real person” who’s been raised on—and is thus compelled to imitate—the camera-mugging antics of other reality show “celebrities”?
Fine by me.
In any “high end” workplace there is generally room for talented assholes. At some point it does not matter if you are a jerk when you get world class results.
The show tends, to my eyes anyhow, to swing back and forth between “food-based reality show” and “gas-fueled theme park of the mentally ill.” Evidently the producers thought the last series’ contestant hot-tub broth was insufficiently ennobling and chose this trip’s passengers based on resemblance to characters from Dark Shadows, Fellini movies, and early German folk tales. I say blah. I watch for the cooking, not the involuntary civil commitment. Not one of these clowns has a resume that would make hiring them at a high-end restaurant an even-money proposition – the show’s not about that this time around.
Has anyone followed the career of any of the past “winners,” half a dozen of them now, overseeing the Ramsay empire?