Especially when they bring in an important guest judge.
Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.
'Shindig'
Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
Lee - Jan 23, 2009 5:19:03 am PST #7787 of 23273
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jessica - Jan 23, 2009 5:20:22 am PST #7788 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And Jaimie mentioned not wanting to win.
Which is really the only explanation I have for her serving chilean sea bass in her restaurant celebrating "local sustainable" food!
lisah - Jan 23, 2009 5:25:45 am PST #7789 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate
Which is really the only explanation I have for her serving chilean sea bass in her restaurant celebrating "local sustainable" food!
Oh yeah! I hadn't even thought of that. @@
Although I guess concept didn't really matter since he picked Leah whose place was supposed to be, what, vaguely sort of Asian?
victor infante - Jan 23, 2009 5:52:42 am PST #7790 of 23273
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
I dunno, I think Jeff's salmon might have been a throw.
You might be right, actually. Jeff kept his head down the entire challenge -- usually, he's the guy stepping out in front and organizing people in team challenges -- which he's pretty good at, actually, although it often comes at the expense of attention to his own cooking.
Having been dinged on that before, and already having proved his leadership & management skills, I can totally see that he made a conscious decision to just focus on his cooking for this challenge and not stick his neck out.
Which is totally different from the Leah and Hosea strategy of "slack off and throw teammate under bus" from the previous episode, or their strangely winning strategy of "let's substitute romantic drama for anything of culinary value and let Stefan and Fabio do all the work."
Truly, they are failing upward.
sumi - Jan 26, 2009 8:54:39 am PST #7791 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
megan walker - Jan 26, 2009 9:05:53 am PST #7792 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Wow. Looking at the girl-girl teams, J and I didn't have a chance.
Jessica - Jan 26, 2009 9:07:40 am PST #7793 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The bio for Mel & Mike is WAY confusing. I had to read it three times before I realized it was basically the plot of The Falsettoes.
Jessica - Jan 26, 2009 9:15:13 am PST #7794 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Based solely on the bios, I think I like the stuntmen best.
sumi - Jan 27, 2009 6:48:07 am PST #7795 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
Lee Anne blogs the last two episodes of Top Chef.
sumi - Jan 27, 2009 7:04:12 am PST #7796 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
From Lee Anne's blog:
Obviously neither Leah nor Radhika are in control of their teams, which in my mind lands responsibility squarely on their shoulders. After four seasons of seeing how RW goes down, if you are the team leader, then you'd better f**king lead. While Radhika looks like a mauve-swathed deer in headlights, Leah's continual, abysmal "I'm-frustrated-so-I-don't-care-or-at-least-I-will-pretend-not-to-care" attitude provokes an inner rage because I go through the casting process and I find it personally offensive when a girl I gambled and relied on to be that badass female presence just gives up. It's not that she's not talented, but she let her personal shit get in the way. I know it's happened to most of us. Just not during Restaurant Wars.