Watch Diogenes start a thread at the same time as me…
I’ve been a pretty big Virginia pumper/Heather hater throughout the season but I must admit to being turned off by Virginia in this epi. Her choice of team, motivational method, and performance at the pass were pathetic. Heather, once I learned to plug my ears and shut my eyes during her confessionals, actually seemed like she had it together. Way too drastic with the mood swings for me, but she know what the hell she was doing.
Virginia got the serious loser edit… but she gets props for being a classy loser.
Hate abounds for “k-grease” and Tom. Virginia, your team psychology needs a little work. Though I thought you’d get props for working with a lackluster crew.
I’ve been a Heather supporter from the very beginning and am so glad she won. She’s tough when she needs to be but is still very human. She’s proven time and again that she’s more than competant in a kitchen. Yes, she’s emotional but her intense determination to do her absolute best tends to win out in the end. She’ll know that she can rely on that throughout her career. I’m so glad she won.
Awww, poor k-grease didn’t get his thousand bucks. Poor widdle baby! What a humongous jerk he is!!! And Tom deserved to be cut a lot worse than he did for being such an ass. Still, ain’t Karma wonderful?
Virginia shouldn’t have given in to K-grease’s extortion demands. Picking both him and Tom was a really, really stupid move and proved to be her undoing. I don’t really have anything against Virginia (except that) but I think that with her superior sense of taste that she should consider becoming a restaurant critic instead of a chef. At her present age and stage of maturity, she doesn’t have the toughness to work in a high-end, high-pressure restaurant. As she matures, she may develop that. But I think right now she could keep them on their toes from the dining room.
This was a tense finale. Very good! Anyone know if Hell’s Kitchen will be back for another season?
I’d say he’s going to do it again. They really scraped the bottom of the barrel with this season’s contestants, so maybe they’ll get some real chefs that we can actually root for.
I actually thought the teams ended up being a wash, more or less. If anything, Virginia picked an inferior team but didn’t really seem to suffer for it. There were no real fuck ups in the kitchen and they completed the service, albeit a little slow.
I thought that the Fox editing monkeys had some fun with Virginia. I think she was going to say, “You guys were seen as the weakest, but I know you were a lot stronger than that…” they just cut the second part of her sentence. Because that would be criminally stupid otherwise.
Heather did her mood swing thing again, but I guess I can see why she’d get weepy at the end. I really thought New York strip was a mistake, as they’d muck up the temperature. It sounded as if it was really close. Virginia definitely outclassed Heather re: decor - who wants to see your monkey ass cooking? Heather doesn’t seem to realize that no-one gives a shit about your stupid scrawling on the wall, or your family. They’re at the restaurant to eat, not learn your life story. Virginia had the cool color scheme and the waterfall.
I think Heather should hire Virginia to do the decor for the new place. Otherwise she’s going to let K-Grease tag his initials all over the place.
You’re right about the decor. Even if the giant televisions were showing someone I could really drool over, I wouldn’t want them constantly going while I was trying to enjoy dinner with my friends. They were just flat-out distracting. On the other hand, who doesn’t like watching a waterfall? Virginia came up with a very good idea there.
As soon as Virginia picked Tom to be on her team while Garrett was still standing there, I knew she did not have what it took to win. While she completed service, it was at the expense of a customer who simply had to give up on a replacement entree. I’d think twice before returning to a restaurant who served me an unpalatable meal, then couldn’t rebound from it.
She spent however many days and nights in Hell’s Kitchen, but doesn’t seem to have thought things through in terms of how she was going to manage all these apparently complex dishes at the pass. And when it got the best of her, she refused help until she was so desperate she demanded it.
As the field thinned out and we got to see more of her, she seemed to have the mind of a tiny child, expecting the rest of the world to bend over backward to present reality to her just the way she wants it. While her team sucked for demanding money, her initial reaction of “well I don’t have to give you anything” shows a complete lack of social skills. I recommend a BBC America rerun of “Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares” to see GR himself just how much of running a restaurant has nothing to do with food.
Heather would have won by default anyway, given all this, but she showed a real intelligence about her menu design. Virginia had it all over her in terms of taste in both food and decor, but the key to a successful restaurant is getting good food out in a timely manner, and at managing resources to accomplish that goal she excelled.
I’ve been rooting for Virginia the last couple of shows, just because everyone else treats her like shit, but I understand why they do. It’s not really because she wins the challenges or waves her tits about; it’s because she has absolutely no social intelligence. I almost fell out of my chair when she got first pick for the teams, and chose K-grease, who has made it no secret he despises her. And then Tom! Here’s a tip for you, Tom…if you need a job, maybe you shouldn’t go on TV and say things like, “I won’t work for a woman.” At one point during the show, I had to ask myself what would be better…a multi-million dollar restaurant in Las Vegas, or plunging a big-ass kitchen knife into Tom’s chest.
I didn’t give a damn who won by the time it ended, but boy, I’m glad Virginia didn’t have to give those assholes any money.
I’m one who was also rooting for Virginia, but I’m actually glad Heather won last night after Virginia’s abysmal performance.
And am I the only one who got the feeling that Tom cut himself on purpose? I don’t know why I felt that way, but it just seemed like an awfully convenient time to get a cut .
Fun season. And I can’t help it, as much as everyone else calls Keith ‘Sloth’, I can’t help referring to Giacomo as ‘Frodo’. I just wanted to see if he has monster feet like a Hobbit.
So when does the resturant open in Vegas, and how long do you think it’ll stay as the Hell’s Kitchen resturant before they fire Heather and bring in someone with more drawing power? Really, it seems that’s the order of the day in Vegas. It’s not that it’s a good resturant, it’s that it’s Mario Batali’s resturant that impresses the folks from the suburbs.
Heather won’t keep a strong enough draw at a new casino for them to be able to justify letting her keep it. It’ll be Rachel Ray’s Perkatorium within 6 months…
I’m going to miss my TV girlfriend Heather, but I’m glad she won. Frankly, I think K-grease got elminated in the final three to make sure she would win, but I have no basis for that theory save my own feverish imagination.
I think both Heather and Virginia did pretty well last night, with a slight edge to Heather. Heather had the stronger overall team and managed them better, which I think gave her the win. While she seems in control in the kitchen, I wonder how Heather is going to survive the ups and downs of running a restaurant given how emotional she seems to be.
I wasn’t surprised Virginia picked Keith first. Even though he didn’t have much respect for her, Keith was by far the best cook of the returning contestants. (I’m curious why they didn’t have all the previous contestants back.) Picking Tom and Giacomo was just a bad decision.
Although Heather did better last night, ultimately, I’d rather eat in a Virginia restaurant than a Heather restaurant. Neither is truly ready to run a restaurant, but Virginia has more imagination and creativity, both with food and decor. I don’t really see Heather’s food as being different than what you could find in many other restaurants.
At the very end of the program, they showed the Red Rock restaurant with the caption “Three months later” which would make it sound like it’s opened very recently, or more likely, given the difficulty of getting anyone who comes near to stay quiet, it’ll open to the public tonight.
Red Rock’s website doesn’t list anything that appears to be Heather’s restaurant (they’ve got close to a dozen, all together) and the resort has only been open since April of this year.
That actually was my favorite part of the entire show.
I was sort of on Virginia’s side going into last night (even though I never got to see her tits), but she did a much worse management job than Heather. So good job to Heather. Just stop with those “oh my gawd!” looks where your eyes stick out about two feet.
That last scene, where they pan in on the Red Rock complex and into the restaurant where (it’s assumed) Heather meets her staff for the first time…
Was that the exact design she had in her mock-HK restaurant? Complete with graffitti? After Gordon had all but flat-out told her it’s tacky as hell? I could’ve sworn I caught sight of “Heather’s food is HOT!” in the background. There aren’t enough :rolleyes: to cover that plus the huge video screen of her cooking.
I thought that Ramsay’s referring to the writing on the walls as “graffiti” was being way too nice. Apparently the only graffiti he’s seen is done by 11 year old girls, which apparently were the exact people hired to decorate Heather’s restaurant. We’re lucky there wasn’t an giant picture of Orlando Bloom in there too….
Decor-wise, this appears to be it- the colors/table settings are right, and that fire in the background is something I remember from last night. Interesting that they aren’t making a bigger deal out of it, though.
That would be a vast improvement over the Bugeyewall.
For me, when Virginia ran out of food that was it. I was rooting for her and thought she might pull it out in the end, but when they couldn’t replace htat returned dish that just seemed like a cardinal sin. I have no problem with Heather winning. She nver knocked my socks, but I did think she showed a lot of potential bossing around her kitchen.
Bah…the wrong person won. Virginia has actual talent. Heather’s just a capable line cook. Neither of them should be running an upscale restaurant (Heather would probably be fine running the line at a Denny’s but that’s about it), but I’d rather go to Virginia’s house for dinner.
What the web needs is a “Where are they now” site that keeps tabs on all the contestants from all the reality shows – or, rather, the ‘talent’ ones.
Is last year’s winner from “So you think you can dance” actually dancing in a show?
How about last year’s winner from Hell’s Kitchen.
Or maybe only the top two, or them plus any ‘ironic’ ones, like some guy who got voted out at #12 is now has the biggest one man show.
I know I liked to read about the next chapters.
What a humongous jerk he is!!! And Tom deserved to be cut a lot worse than he did for being such an ass. Still, ain’t Karma wonderful?
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