First off - Danny, Alexis and... the oil rig guy??? Talk about a shocker - Ok, not so much the first two, but the oil rig guy?!
I don't know why the producers of AI love to torment the sad, desperate, and in this case, certifiably crazy. Why oh why would you put Tatiana up against Danny, knowing Danny was going to win, but also knowing that Tatiana would still get her hopes up to the point of nearly passing out?? And then, drag it out with a commercial break??? WTF?! These people are cruel and sick, I tell ya. They could have put her anywhere in the line-up, but they purposely raked her over the coals for the ratings.
I'm not the world's most sensitive guy, Lola, but even I think that was pretty heartless.
I'm really sick of all the drama that they drag out on these decision nights. It should be a 20 or 30 minute show, with maybe a guest singer, and then straight on to the results. The other bullshit is just so much wasted airtime... especially when they ask Paula her opinion about something. In a word - Yikes.
Now, onto Top Chef. I started watching TC when I moved back here in December. I'd never watched any of the previous seasons because it just didn't seem that interesting. Well, now I'm hooked, so I'll probably go back and watch all the earlier seasons. It's sad, really.
Anyway, I just watched tonight's episode. The gist of it was that the two top-runners for most of the season were in the bottom two, so one had to go. The one guy was talking about his sick mother, and how much he wanted to be in the competition. The other guy - let's call him Dick - actually said to the judges, "Hey, I'm only 36 years old... if this doesn't work out, I'll just move on to something else." They'd commented several times throughout the season that he was pretty cocky, and he really showed his ass tonight.
Well, shocker alert, he didn't get booted - the fun-loving, genial, and otherwise non-offensive Italian guy got the boot instead. "Dick" somehow survived.
My problem isn't that he didn't get eliminated - my problem is that I'm sure the producers decided he should go on because they figured he'd be better for the ratings.
Am I saying it's fixed? Yep. Fixed like our little, female Chihuahua, Gidget, that we had when I was a kid. (Yikes, how's that for a disturbing simile??)
I'm really disappointed in Top Chef. I'm going to go online and see if I'm the only one thinking it was fixed, but I bet I'm not. In fact, the trailer for next week's finale shows "Dick" being a dick and fighting with the sweet and lovable Hosea.
Ah well, that's what sells tickets, I suppose. Even so, I'm a fan, so I'll continue to watch. I just want you to know how disgusted I am with myself.
Stay tuned for another exciting posting next week after AI. And, yes, I'm aware that the majority of my life revolves around reality shows. Maybe you should take pity on me and go buy my house... :-)
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