We're in a slow season!

I realized there aren't very many reality shows on right now but I'll tell ya about the one's that are on.

The new Season of Rupaul's Drag Race is on. I'm not sure if I actually saw the latest episode but I'll tell ya about the one I did see that wasn't on the Logo channel. Unfortunately, my new satellite company requires a high price for this channel. Way to stick it to a specific group huh? Anyway, it's quite a large group of contestants and I don't just mean numbers. There are at least 4 fat guys. I swear Tyra's makeup artist from America's Next Top Model is one of the guy/girls. The girls had to first work in 2 groups and put on a campy movie sci fi movie trailer. Man, there was over acting, bad acting and no acting going on. Of course the judges liked the over acting. The people helping the girls get the whole thing done were supposed to be famous but I didn't know them from Adam. Who cares anyway? For the final judging the girls had to do a futuristic look. Oh boy! All I have to say is, fat guys don't make pretty girls. Men usually carry their over weight in their abdomens and that's not pretty. BTW, Shangela is back. I'm wondering why he gets a redo but why ask why? Um...can't remember the guest judge and can't remember who won or was sent home. I think the one sent home was the guy w/ the glued wig falling off. I have no idea how this is judged cuz I would start bumping off the fatties one by one first. But oh well. It's making me not miss the Logo channel after all.

The crying fatties aka, The Biggest Loser continued but the unknowns on the ridge came back to roost on the ranch. We'll call them the ridgers and the main players the ranchers. So we saw a lot of working out and people trying to show how fit they became. The black guy from the ridgers proved himself a slacker and the rest of the group pounced all over that and lost total respect for him. Rulon Gould proved the equipment on the ranch is cheap cuz he broke 2 treadmills. I was wanting to see the logo on those machines but they didn't show it. They probably were told not to by the company. The ridge team did the challenge. The teams had to put weights on each other's platforms until they hit 500 pounds and then they were out of the competition. The last team standing received immunity. Ok! Well, this time, there was no pre-challenge decision and it was every team for themselves. Rulon proved why he's an Olympic Champ. He had a great strategy using the lighter weights first while the piling frenzy went on and saving the heavier weights for the head to head at the end. It worked and his team won. So on to the weigh-in. The ranchers did pretty well except the lone girl and twin team. They twin decided he was missing his brother and home and the ranch wasn't for him. The team threw the weigh in by each gaining 6 pounds. Good lord! That twin has gained more weight than some people have lost in 2 weeks. I love the way it pisses off Jillian and Bob. Hee hee hee. Anyway, they owned up to it and Don was sent home right there by a unanimous show of hands. The ridgers lined up to weigh and the black couple fell below the yellow line. I have to say, the ridgers put up some incredible numbers and the ranchers now wear a look of fear. So the ridgers wanted to vote out the black guy but he cried and gave promises and excuses. His wife said she wanted to go home so in the end, they gave in and sent her home. Bye! Those 2 really are losers and not in a good way. Blech!

Top Chef Allstars are at that point where we kind of hate to see any of them go. I like everybody. The quickfire was about food presentation. Isaac Mizrahi challenged the chefs to make art w/ the food. They did and the food wasn't tasted at all. It was quite interesting. Angelo made something that looked like barf in a bag. Oooh...pretty. Richard Blais was declared the winner for making a black and white really cool looking dish. Then the group was split into 3 groups of 3 and 3 mafioso looking and sounding guys walked in. For the elimination challenge, the chefs were to cook an Italian dinner. The first group would do the anitpasto, the 2nd group the pasta course and the 3rd group the meat course. It wasn't a team challenge cuz each chef had to do their own dish and be judged as such. Luckily, each group ended up w/ an Italian. Antonia was in the first group and she made steamed mussels. I've had this as an appetizer in Italian restaurants and the thing that makes it not French is the large amount of garlic in the dish and the bread that goes w/ it. Carla made minestrone soup and Tiffany made a polenta and sausage terrine thing. The judging was in Rao's restaurant w/ the guest judges the mafioso guys of the place, the regular judges and that Italian actress w/ the raspy voice who's been on the show before. The people all repeated over and over that Italian food is all about the ingredients and doing them simply so they shine. Okay! For the second course, Mike Isabella tried to make homemade rigatoni which turned out to have the texture of a shingle but his sauce was good. Dale Talde gave the excuse that he's not Italian but hello, you do use noodles in your oriental dishes don't you? His dish was declared terrible too. Tre made risotto that offended the judges. Uh oh. For the meat course, Fabio made Chicken cacciatori and polenta that made the judges say, "This reminds me of home." I thought, oh he's got this in the bag. Richard made fish and Angelo made beef I believe. What? No veal? To everybody's surprise, Antonia won. Poor Fabio, he can't catch a break. He vented a bit and said Antonia's dish was French but it must've been really really good. Tre tried to argue w/ the Italian judges about the correct consistency of risotto. Really? I was waiting for Colicchio to say, "Do you know who you're talking to?" In the end, Tre couldn't admit his sins and was booted. He took it well. I'll miss his laugh.

The Food Network has a show called Challenge where it's a one day contest between 4 people to make cakes, chocolate show pieces, sugar show pieces and even fruit and vegetable carvings. The contestants are pretty much different each week and each challenge theme is different. I really like this show except for one thing. Kerry Vincent is a judge and she's the worst sour puss I've ever seen. She's one of those English pretentious people who always look like they smell dooky. I really wish they'd give her a month off. Yeesh.

The Worst Cooks in America are down to 6 people. For the skills challenge the cooks were shown how to make sausage and then challenged to make their own. Then they had to make a dish w/ it. I love that Robert totally gags and spits out bad tasting food. The black guy way oversalted his sausage and you could tell cuz there seemed to be more salt than meat in the bowl. Then for the elimination challenge, the blue group had to filet sea bass. The red group had to clean calamari. Ew! Why? You can always buy already cleaned calamari at the store or fish market. I didn't blame the cooks for gagging w/ this one. Then they had to make side dishes that consisted of the food they hated along w/ their fish or calamari. It was obvious that the black guy didn't listen very well. Kelsey did her burning food thing. I think it's a reaction to giving her husband food poisoning twice. She wants to make sure things aren't undercooked. The red team had to stuff their calamari for their dish. Everyone was a frenetic hot mess. In the end, Carlos and Kelsey were declared the winners and the black guy and Kat were sent home. One thing I learned was Georg is lesbian. That was interesting. One thing I knew already? Kat is dumb and the black guy dumber so dumb and dumber were sent home. Bye!

Well, that's all for now. See you all next time and stay tuned.