This is why I don't waste my time with "reality" TV...

Because it's not based in REALITY.

They are ALL scripted, pre-set, with pre-determined winners, and the outcomes have much less to do with reality than ratings.

Need proof?

Well then, just watch this season's Top Chef BULLSHIT in one of the many repeats of several-episodes-at-once that Bravo runs all the time.
If you can, try to catch the whole thing that way.
You'll see EXACTLY what I'm talking about and you'll probably get back YEARS of your life by not wasting your time on any more "reality" TV.

I stumbled upon this season's Top Chef show quite by accident and got interested enough in it to actually have followed this shit til this week.

I happened to miss this weeks episode and after reading here what went on, I definitely WON'T be watching the last episode.
Nor do I believe I'll be watching Season three, IF they even have one.

Frankly, after the crock of shit this season has turned out to be, Bravo may as well just cancel it, unless they support the manipulation, hypocracy, and the fact that the REAL "best chef" isn't who wins.

In case you're smart enough already to not waste your time on this show, the premise is that they find a buncha chefs and have them compete in two competitions each show, the Quick Fire Challenge, wherein they all make some kinda little something to see who gets immunity from elimination.

Then, they go on to the "big" competition for each episode, where they're asked to create actual meals in various settings and with various themes.

You'd THINK the person who wins the most Quick Fires and episodic competitions would naturally win, or at least make it into the last competition, but... they don't.

Instead of basing their choices on actual TALENT, the stupid judges seem to keep whomever is the most dramatic asshole, regardless of any lack of real talent and, I've gotta tell ya... including some nasty-lookin' foam with every damned thing you cook is NOT talent.

It's LAME.
And, that foam?
It looks like colored blobs of SPIT on the plate.
Bring me a dish with that disgusting looking shit on it and I WILL send it back.

And, I just called the judges stupid...
I didn't think they ALL sucked til I found out what happened this week and read Tom's blog (which is what the link is up there).

Til just now, I really liked Tom and respected him.

Now?
Not s'much.

He's actually trying to defend this bullshit with eliminating Sam, who, by the way, is really the best, most talented chef they had this season, to keep that little jerkoff asshole who foams every fuckin' thing, Marcel.

I firmly believe if they HAD to have a "Marcel" on this show, they'd have done better having Ross Geller's monkey Marcel cooking, instead of the juvenile jackoff posing as a chef they did have.

This guy, from the first episode I saw, up to and including the last one I saw (or will ever watch), has been an utter disgrace to chefs everywhere.

Truly, if this dipshit is the example of the caliber of "Top Chefs" there are today, I'll go to Mickey D's.

My God man... just like people didn't want to eat food prepared by that murderer who strangled Dominique Dunne to death, I also wouldn't want to eat food prepared by, and thus tacitly support, a person who comports himself in the manner Marcel does in the kitchen and who thinks "talent" equals making some lame-assed friggin' FOAM every damned dish.

The guy sucks ASS as a chef and sucks even harder as a person.

I KNOW from personal experience how much pressure can build in a good restaurant with a balls-to-the-wall busy kitchen.

Remember all the shit I went through back in Bucks, working under that fuckin' psychotic prick cook at the restaurant where I worked?

I do and I also know that you must possess at least a modicum of people skills not to lose total control of your kitchen in high-stress times and not end up stabbed to death by your crew and thrown into the grease dumpster.

Marcel has not one WHIT of this.
Just like he has not one whit of talent compared to Sam.

But, Marcel's one of the two left to compete for the big win and I'm gonna tell you right now, based on how this season has gone, he'll win no matter what happens.

Bet me.

I won't be watching.
Not the last episode of this season or ANY episode of any other season.

Don't bet me on this one, you'll lose.

I'm just not gonna waste my time watching this shit if real talent isn't rewarded, and it's not, and being a shit-stirring drama queen is, and... it is.

The judges blew it.
Big time.

And, speaking of judges on this show blowing...

Jesus GAWD, where did they find those two women judges?

That "Padma" thing is just nasty.
For her, this whole show is about HER and how "sexy" she thinks she is and thinks everybody ELSE should think she is.
And, I hate her voice/accent.
Sounds contrived.
Her whole persona seems contrived just for the camera.
I hope, for her sake, it is.
If she's really the way she comes across, she's an opinionated know-nothing poseur.

And, that other female...
What. a. cow.

If being FAT is a sign of a good food judge, I see why they chose her.
Otherwise, I have no clue.

Tom, like I said, was garnering my respect more and more with each episode til I read his blog tonight.

That's when I saw that he supports hypocracy and doesn't give shit one about talent, either.

He's trying to defend the fact that Sam got booted and Marcel remains.

Tom... just stop.

There IS no defense for what you people have done.

You're just making yourself look like a total shitstain now.

If this whole goddamned thing is about food, Marcel would have been eliminated weeks ago.
If cheating and the way you handle people and the way you act doesn't matter, what the FUCK was eliminating Cliff about?
Frankly, you oughta be glad Marcel didn't get his ass beaten royally, like he deserved.

And, if "cheating" doesn't matter, what the FUCK happened with the whole Otto debacle?
Otto didn't "steal" that shit and that pointy-faced bitch KNEW that shit wasn't paid for before they left the front of the store, yet she didn't get eliminated til MUCH later.
You just let Otto take the fall.
Which was pure bullshit.

Do you not watch the tape of these episodes before you make your ill-informed decisions?

Bet ya don't.
Because, hell... talent isn't what matters, is it?
Nope.
RATINGS... that's what this is about, huh?
Really man... cut the bullshit on your blog and just fuckin' ADMIT IT already.
At least be that much of a man, please.
For your own sake, if for no other reason.

You seem like a good man on a personal level, but your professional ethics are sorely lacking if you really do believe in the way this season has turned out.
As a boss, if you truly ARE the way you've come across in your blog this week, you're horrible and I'd NEVER want to work for you because, to you, the truth doesn't matter, nor does talent.

I'm not sure what DOES matter to you anymore.

Except stupid ratings, which, by the way, have absolutley NOTHING to do with cooking or running a kitchen or anything else that SHOULD matter in this show.

(Yes, I do realize that ratings matter, but they oughta not to be considered more important than the chef's talents, as they so clearly are.)

Anyway...

Top Chef is a waste of time if you're really wanting to see the most talented person win.
It's a waste of time unless you enjoy being jerked around for the sake of ratings.

Hell, after this, it's my considered opinion that it's a waste of time, period.

"Breaking Bonaduce" is MUCH more compelling and comes across as MUCH more real than this horseshit does.

Tom, you're a huge disappointment.

Bravo, you're pathetic to allow this kind of shit to be aired.

Marcel, I sincerly hope you get everything that's coming to you and I also hope I somehow find out about it. [Ed. Update... Like I just did.... I'm almost ashamed to admit that this made me laugh for several minutes. But... only "almost", because this guy is such an asswad. The only way this could be sweeter is if I were the "unknown female" who did it. Sincerely.]
Knowing of your utter ruination and that you've failed due to your total lack of talent would only bolster my faith in karma, you squirrely prick.

Viewing public...
Don't bother, y'all.
Watching flies fuck would be an improvement over this schlock.

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