End of the road for some...

Some reality shows have wrapped up their seasons and some are at least getting there.

Project Runway named it's winner: Irina Shabayeva. Too bad for Caroll Hannah who had to gut out a stomach flu. Interesting enough, the 13th look that Christopher helped her with, was judged to be the best and it was really pretty. Caroll Hannah said her main thing is dresses. No kidding. Her pants looked like leggings and she really had nothing else but dresses. At least her collection had some pretty colors. Althea's collection was supposed to be futuristic and sci/fi. Whatever. I don't know who's future she was thinking of, but good thing, not mine. Irina's collection looked like she copied her looks from the season. There was a lot of black and drab but what can you expect from a Cruella DeVille type? One reason I'm glad this installment of the show is over; I'm sick to death of seeing their stupid families. Who cares? Sew some damn clothes already.

Models of the Runway wasn't as interesting as I thought it could be. I thought they might show Kaelyn's photo shoot but noooo... I was glad to see Jaslene from ANTM in Althea's runway collection. She does have that great fierce walk. It's too bad they didn't interview some of those models. I'm hoping that next season, they'll make the designers switch models more. I couldn't believe some of the models who were chosen. Was it just me or did Tara look like Althea's little sister? The only difference was, Althea actually looked alive. Someone needs to teach the models to model when they're with their designer in front of the judges. Yeesh! Sometimes they just stood there like they were waiting for a bus. I shouted at the screen, "Stop slouching!" a lot. Koji was really good at modeling the ugly designs like she loved the clothes.

Iron Chef America chose it's new Iron Chef. Congrats to Chef Garces. I hope he makes some really good latin dishes for the competitions. Flay thinks his stuff is latin. Whatever. Flay makes Tex/Mex and that's dull as dishwater. Chef Mehta had no chance to win cuz 2 bites of food on a plate isn't really a dish, no matter how cute you dress it.

On to shows that haven't wrapped.

Top Chef finally got rid of it's last piece of chaff. Eli, the litte troll, got his come-uppance and packed his knives. The chefs were supposed to cook dishes in the style of the Bocuse D'Or. Well, they really didn't. I've seen that competition. Those chefs make meticulous art with their food by weaving strips of vegetables, making molded purees and rice dishes, etc. At the same time, the food is really good and well balanced. The dishes lacked artistry and color. Jennifer had the most colorful using greens but still, it was just greens and white. Kevin had some red with his beet. Eli had that pool of green on his meat but the judges said it didn't taste good. Hmmm... I guess you have to have both; looks good and tastes good. Well, duh! Chef Kayson pointed that out before they even started. I'm thinking, the Top Cheftastants weren't really listening. Since no-one had any real beauty to their food, the playing field was evened out and Kevin won on pure cooking skill. He'd learned from his restaurant war debacle, not to undercook the lamb. That MIT degree comes in handy ha ha ha. Jennifer finally woke up and didn't land in the bottom this time. So that's the end of the early pre-taped stuff. I love seeing the chefs come back for the end. They always look well rested and happy. Maybe Michael Volt will be less snarky. Maybe Brian Volt will be less dull and tell his brother to stuff it, once. Maybe Jennifer will pull a rabbit out of the hat and be the 2nd woman to win this thing. Unless Kevin's had a serious stroke, I'm thinking he's probably going to run away with this. Hopefully they've worked on a dessert for the finale.

On Survivor, the producers finally went back to 2 challenges. I love the way Russell keeps finding the immunity idols and the Galu members never think he has it. Intelligence certainly isn't a requirement for this show. I'm wondering why people think they have any influence on other people? First the Foa Foa guys think they can talk Monica into voting their way. Then Monica thinks she can get the Foa Foas to vote her way. The stupidity of these people makes me wonder how much they're suffering from malnutrition. Not only is Shambo not playing the game very well, but I'm not sure she's playing at all. If anything she's the one being played. When the numbers get low enough, the Foa Foas will dump her like last week's rotten garbage. The really good part of tribal council was, they had to edit out a lot of the idiotic chit chat which is usually led by the head idiot; Jeff Probst. There were 2 rounds of voting. Laura was surprised to see she wasn't as popular as she thought and was booted after the 2nd round. Shambo couldn't hide her glee. Eric made the most comments without ever saying anything. Members of the jury can't say anything but they can use sign and body language and Eric's very good at telecasting his feelings.

On Dancing With the Stars, we're down to the finals and Yay! Joanna Krupa, the non-star and her dancing samoyed sidekick, Derek Hough, were ousted. Do I care she's from Poland? No. Do I care she's a swimsuit model? No. Does anybody know who the heck she is? No. She wasn't that good a dancer either. Derek Hough is just really good at making the dances showcase the best the partner can do and hiding the stuff they can't. According to Jimmy Kimmel, Krupa was on his The Man Show about 6 years ago. Do the producers really have to go to the bottom of the barrel to cast this show? I hate to say it, but I'm not too interested in Mya either but Wow! Dimitri is just too freakin' hot. I'm glad to see none of the past winning pros are in the final. I have loved Louie VanAmstel from the very first season. I'm glad to see him go to the end. Poor thing had to put up with that stupid bachelorette in his first season. For some odd reason, I can't get enough of Kelly's cursing. It just cracks me up too much. Donny Osmond has made it to the end too, despite his fatigue.

On RW/RR challenge The Ruins; the teams are getting very sparse. This usually signals we're getting near the end. Brad went berserk and had a knock down drag out fight with his friend Darrell and they were both booted from the show with Darrell's money going into the general bank. Susie is the lone female on the Champ's team and managed to win her individual challenge. I don't understand why she's playing along with the guys who don't really give a rat's butt what happens to her. Maybe she's just got a really good work ethic. Then again, maybe she wants to keep Casey on the challenger's team to weaken them. Casey is the albatross to end all albatrosses. Every week, we learn something else about Casey and it's never a good thing. I thought the air in her head would, at least, help her swim. She's no good at climbing though. I hope the end challenge is something like carrying one person over the whole course. At least Casey is lightweight. Maybe the challengers would have a chance.

The Amazing Race is finally getting more fierce. I love it when the teams aren't so nice to each other and get really competitive and cunning. Team Miss America and hubby got their taxi stolen by the gay brothers team. Those guys have really burned their bridges with everybody. The girl of the blonde couple team was trying to be nice. When you're in a race; shut up and race. The lesson learned this week is, don't take a bus instead of a taxi when you're trying to get somewhere fast. Duh! Luckily, this was a non-elimination leg and Brian and Erica are still in it. If he can lose his good guy easy going attitude and get some of Erica's competitive fire, they can really win this thing. So far, there hasn't been an eating challenge and I'm hoping there will be one cuz the people who are left don't look like good eaters. It would be soooo good.

There's a new show called, World's Strictest Parents. Bratty kids have grown to be bratty teens. Of course, it's not because their parents are too lenient or stupid or anything. So they're sent off to live with parents who have good kids and rule with iron fists. Okay, what I see is, the parents of the teens have let the kids run roughshod over them so much, the teens have no respect for them. Well, if you're going to be a wussbag, teens will treat you like a wussbag. Most of the time, the strict people aren't that strict. They just have a household with organization and structure. They also know how to follow through on discipline. The teens usually just need parenting period. Toward the end of the their stay with the strict parents, the teens get a letter from home that usually brings them to tears. The producers must think this is the money shot because I've never seen so many close-ups of people crying. That camera must be shoved right in their faces; nice. I'd like to know, how come the strict parents are almost always religious? The praying is so sappy and preachy, it's vomit inducing.

America's Next Top Model named it's winner; Nicole. At least the girls were able to wear high heels to the final judging. Nicole had the weirdest runway walk that looked like she was part of the WWE and I'm not talking about the women of the WWE either. I thought Laura was much better at the commercial and runway but I'm thinking Nicole was chosen from the beginning. She has always looked more couture throughout the season. Too bad she has the personality of a wet sponge. Oh well, Cover Girl never uses Tyra's commercial anyway so we won't have to hear Nicole talk ever again ha ha ha.

Bravo has a new show called; Chef Academy. Take one hoity toity French Chef, his busty girlfriend, his judgy sidekick and a bunch of dimwitted wanna be chefs and you've got one lukewarm show. None of them could cook an egg in 10 minutes and are they all sharing one brain? So far, I'm not impressed by the French Chef's cooking and I'm hoping he takes a shower before the next episode. Actually, this week was the 2nd episode, but the first one wasn't that exciting and I fast-forwarded through a lot of the guy's personal bragging. Whatever. You're French, you cook, you're engaged, expecting a baby and opening a cooking school. We got it; Next! In the 2nd episode, the french student turned out to be a porn star. This is the 2000s. We're not prudish and don't care. If you're going to make a big deal of it, at least show us his backside. I love his propensity for tardiness and how much it ticks off the teacher. In this episode, the head guy made a chocolate Pot De Creme. He made it look difficult. I wasn't impressed because Ina Garten makes it look easy. The students had to recreate it and most failed. How dumb are they? The guy gave you the recipe. Top Chef, this show isn't.

Well, that's all for now. C-ya next week.