Wow! I can't believe how many fun reality shows are on. Most are pretty good and some are going downhill. There are quite a few, so I'll just get to it.
The Great Food Truck Race went to Flagstaff, Arizona. The teams learned their lesson from last week when only 1 team actually made any profit. They're learning to plan ahead better, do better pricing for their product and think strategically for customers. One truck decided to park at Sam's Club but found the customers were more concerned w/ getting their groceries home than eating. I should say so. If you've got a bunch of bulk food that's frozen or cold, you gotta get home. For the first challenge, the foodtruck people had to cook a dish w/ nopales or cactus paddles. Beau MacMillan came all the way from Phoenix to do the tasting and judging. The dishes were interesting. You could tell nobody really knew how to use it. I thought the best use was the grilling done by the Aussie chicks. The waffle truck guys pulled out the win. I have to say, those waffle guys proved anything can be good on a waffle. Their prize was immunity. So the rest of the show was about the trucks cooking and selling. One truck of chicks were mad at another truck of chicks for not saving them a spot. Oh whatever. Get to the spot earlier. You know the early bird saying. So in the end, it's all about who makes the most money and who makes the least. Once again, the Korean guys made the most and the Aussie girls finally ran out of luck and were sent home. Awww...Bye girls. I'll miss your cool accents.
Hell's Kitchen was down to 4 chefs. The challenge this week was to make a dish for the most profit. They got $15 to buy ingredients. They each went for a different protein. So a lot of running around commenced, followed by frantic cooking and then the judging. I think Ramsay is just dragging in anybody and saying words like Michelin stars and James Beard award. Well blah blah blah cuz I didn't know who the heck those judges were but whatever. They liked all the dishes but had to be minutely critical. They also gave prices of how much they'd pay for a dish. Really? Where the heck do these guys eat where they'd pay over $25 for an entree? Barbie was the only one who's dish looked large enough to even be that much. Well, Dana won and was sent to go cook w/ one of the chefs who judged. All I have to say is, he looked like a greasy spoon cook in a clean apron. Ew. Then she got to eat w/ her parents. Meanwhile, for punishment, the other chefs had to pick through the trash and sort it. Now that was totally made up cuz you didn't see anybody else doing this the whole season and there have been plenty of shots of the dumpsters. At dinner service it was the time for the chefs to each run the pass. It was the usual thing w/ some dish being done wrong. Everybody did pretty good except Dana missed the sugar Ramsay dumped into the risotto. I figured, man they must get pretty full by the end of the evening if they have to take a bite of each dish that goes out. Dana seemed to be the most uncooperative w/ the chefs but then again, if it takes 8 minutes to cook something, how can you rush that? This time, all four chefs were up for elimination. Barbie was sent home and I'm not sure why. I think Ramsay saw that she just didn't garner any respect in the kitchen. Bye Barbie. I still don't know why everyone disliked you but I admire you for handling those haters really well.
MasterChef was also down to 4 cooks. They paired up and had to cook an entree and a dessert for fancy guest judges and of course the regular 3 judges. Ok, the guest judges were impressive: Boloud, Bocuse and another one just as impressive. All the food was good but it came to missed plating. The ladies were on one team and the guys the other. On the entree course, the ladies failed to get part of the dish on all of the plates and the judges noticed. On the dessert, the men failed to make all the plates look the same and failed to get all the sauces on all the plates and the judges noticed. The women won the day which meant Frank and Josh had to cook in the elimination round. They had to cook 3 different kinds of souffles in an hour. Really? Jeez, they had to grate cheese, separate and beat eggs, cut up and melt chocolate and cook down raspberries and then bake the souffles in only 60 minutes? It seemed quite impossible. I wasn't surprised that they didn't have time to powder sugar the tops of their dessert souffles. Josh saved time by putting his raspberries whole in his souffle. The souffles looked even in consistency but it came down to the flavors and Ramsay and the 2 buddies liked Josh's best. Bye Frank. I'm thinking a lady's going to win again.
Face Off didn't have a mini-challenge. Instead, they devoted all the time into the main challenge and it was very nice. Westmore must've told the producers that the art would be better if the artists had enough time. Hey! Tell that to the Project Runway producers. The make-up artists had to make looks w/ sea and nautical themes like seaweed, daggers, crabs, barnacles and stuff like that. These people are impressive and the techniques are shown better this season. I think the producers finally realized we want to see how it's done. The artists even have time to make arm and leg prosthetics that look really cool. They also make whole body suits. That's really impressive. So in the end the girl who's the girlfriend of Ian from last year won w/ her oozing sea urchin creature and that girl who didn't know what a barnacle was, was sent home. Once again though, even the bottom looks look awesome.
Top Chef Masters was down to 6 chefs. For the quickfire, they had to do aphrodisiac dishes w/ Dita VonTees as a judge. All the dishes looked really good and Dita gave each one a kind of sleezy/slutty critique. Poor Curtis blushed redder and redder the whole time. Takashi made an oyster and uni dish and was declared the winner of immunity and cash for his charity. The Chefs found it was the week for restaurant wars but this time, no war. They had to open a Thai restaurant and each make a dish. I kept wondering where the restaurant was supposed to be and it turned out to be the Top Chef kitchen and dining area. The chefs were sent to a famous Thai restaurant in Vegas w/ an authentic Thai chef who didn't speak a word of English. They all oohed, ahed, kissed some butt and some took notes. Then they shopped like crazy people. If the dishes have to be so specialized, why didn't they just get their proteins from a butcher and then shop in an Asian market? Instead, one group was at the regular food store and they yelled that they couldn't find their special Thai ingredients. No kidding. This time, they didn't have to decorate their restaurant either. That was good. The next day the chefs did the bulk of their cooking and space seemed limited w/ Patricia coming down on Lorena for taking up stove space for food prep. I'm thinking Patricia didn't get enough sleep. Also, all of the chefs wanted to be line cooks. That's hilarious but finally, Art and Lorena were put in charge of front of house. They did a good job. Kerry was made expediter and seemed very amateur which was really weird considering he has his own restaurants. The dishes were all judged to be delicious but some more than others. Poor Art, this was not his forte at all and he described his dish as Thai food and Art inspired. Actually, he should've turned that around and had Art's food inspired by Thai and it would've been better. Instead, he had chicken chunks w/ cashew halves all over them. Lorena made Thai soup. Takashi did the crispy noodles. Chris made Larb beef tartar. Kerry made lamb w/ Taro puree. Patricia who lived in Thailand for 2 years made a duck curry thing. Unfortunately, timing was off and she had her dishes ready when Kerry was throwing his on the grill. I think she had to serve her dishes to other people and start new ones. Then Kerry was done and she wasn't so she served her duck too soon and the judges really noticed. James Oseland will eat anything. It was a really bad sign when he sent his dish back. Yikes! At judging, the judges raved about Kerry and Chris's dishes and Chris was declared the winner. Patricia was reluctant to throw Kerry under the bus so he told what happened. Poor Kerry, he looked like a hang dog all that time after Patricia told him it was his fault her duck was underdone. You could tell he felt terrible about the situation. Is that guy Catholic? Jeez, you'd have thought the priest had told him he broke a commandment. Anyway, Art got the boot for his un-Thaied chicken and Lorena was in tears. Bye Art, I'll miss your deep fried and biscuit dishes but not your namedropping and reminders of your weight loss.
Project Runway went to Lord and Taylor where the designers saw a collection of cocktail dresses and gowns made by previous contestants. I have to say, Bert's gown was stunning. I also liked Nick's dress cuz it had color. Chris March made a dress for a fat gypsy. Jay's dress looked like the dress that was kicked off last week. The designers were to make a dress to fit into the collection that would be in the window and sold at L and T. They didn't have to go to Mood cuz L & T provided the material and notions too. That was kind of nice but also kind of limiting. A lot of the designers chose the black materials. Christopher did his shredding thing on the ugliest pink material. Gunnar decided to use black lace. Ven made an ugly black fabric rose right in the middle of the upper chest. Dmitry's dress looked inside out w/ the seams standing up. Elena made some racer front leathery looking hideous dress. Melissa made an interesting dress that had one side of the hem way too long. Alicia made a sack dress w/ an ugly front box pleat in the front. Sonjia didn't make her zipper long enough and cried trying to get her model into the dress. Once it was on though, it looked great. I loved that it took 3 different people to pull it onto the model. Fabio also made an asymetrical thing but it was cute. Christopher won w/ his granny gown. The judges raved over Elena's dress which surprised her so much she burst into tears. I was surprised too. They also raved over Alicia's dress and then didn't seem to like Gunnar's. Really? Then I really don't know fashion. Gunnar's dress was cute and timeless. He makes more modest designs but they look cool and classy. Nobody was sent home due to the 2 quitters in the beginning of the season. Yay! I would've been mad if Gunnar went home for making such a cute dress. Elena seems to be getting nicer in her fatigued state. Ven's still suffering from hoof in mouth disease. They didn't show any funny comments from Dmitry. Aw...too bad.
America's Next Top Model had it's real first challenge and photoshoot. The challenge consisted of the girls walking around a pole and a hanging hoop in front of a leering and cheering crowd. If I was an intelligent college girl, I would be very offended at being objectified in such a blatant way. The stage wasn't long enough to be a runway and therefore, the whole scene looked like a pole dancing club. Some of the girls picked up on that vibe and then were criticized for being too sexy. Uh huh. Confused! So...one girl won and didn't really win a prize. I guess the win is the prize. Whatever. Other girls complained that they were better, naturally. That one skinny pale white girl gets a lot of airtime w/ her arrogance. For the photoshoot, I always have to pause in memory of Mr. Jay. No, he's not dead but he is gone and I miss him terribly. The guy who's doing his job is so boring, I hardly notice him and the girls don't seem to notice him either. This photoshoot was really dumb. The girls stuck their heads through a hole and had to look like a mounted and stuffed model head on the wall. I felt sorry for them cuz it wasn't a good opportunity to show angles and they couldn't move around at all to change any position. The posing options were look left, look right, look up or look straight ahead. It really came down to expressions. At judging panel the judges beside Tyra were so dull, Tyra looked like a meat sandwich w/ corpse bread. I think she's planned it that way cuz she got tired of people liking her companions better than her. I really miss Nigel. Anyway, blah blah blah, the bottom 2 girls were the ones w/ the least expression. The only girl I liked, Jessie, was sent home. Rats! Tyra's running out of ideas and is down to the really stupid ones. Sorry to say, but this show has run it's course and is getting old and boring.
Well that's about it. The networks will be starting their new seasons soon. Last week was the Republican Conventions w/ a lot of speeches and stumping. Clint Eastwood did one and wasn't too bad for an 81 yr old guy. Wow, a Republican Hollywood actor. That's a rare thing. This coming week is the Democrats w/ their speeches and stumping. I wonder if Obama will show since he's so camera shy? Har har. After that, the networks will show their returning or new shows. I can't wait but at the same time, some shows are getting a little old. I'm also sick and tired of single camera sitcoms w/ shaky cameramen. Tell them not to drink on the job for crying out loud. Well, I'm done. Until next time people; stay tuned.
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