[Movie] Hell's Kitchen

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At this point, my money's on Danny. Giovanni is a solid chef but he lacks the fiery personality that Ramsay seems to favor in his winners. Danny is cocky, but also confident. Historically, Ramsay really likes that in his chefs. Robert is a bit of a doofus and he comes completely unwound when he makes a mistake. That will eventually be his ouster.

I thought LA stood more of a chance than she wound up receiving. She really never had an awful night, nothing that could be completely blamed on her. She was definitely competent. I figured she'd get to the last four, then go. But this just supports the idea that Ramsay strongly dislikes passivity. LA never took charge of anything and that cost her.

I'm just glad that egotist Lacey is done.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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Personally, I'm glad Danny won. I predicted his victory eight weeks ago and enjoy being correct. He seemed more assertive and more determined than Paula, like he had an ounce more passion. I think Ramsay saw that zeal in Danny.

As a sidenote, as they showed clips from past arguments and discussions, why did every single contestant appear to be a smoker? Was that a prerequisite? "We have one contestant who smokes, so they all might as well smoke so there are no conflicts."? Seeing something like that would make me not want to apply.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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The women just can't do anything right, can they? They were putting all the blame on Tenille and Lovely, but now that Lovely is gone and Tenille is surprisingly getting stronger, the rest of them are coming apart. Amanda, who began strong, is coming unraveled. Suzanne has some leadership issues. Tek was one of my early favorites; I never expected her to win but I thought she'd last longer than this. She was completely overwhelmed. Right now, the women's only grace is Ariel who has yet to screw up a service completely on her own. I'm mostly interested in seeing how long Tenille can remain afloat before she's finally tossed out the delivery dock doors. Maybe if she'd been allowed to cook some soul food for the returning Sergeant, she could've pulled herself further out of the fire. Tenille is definitely the most interesting of the women.

The men are looking much better. Andy and Jim are the only weak links, and Jim had the unfortunate luck of being completely bumrushed by strip steak orders. I've worked in a steakhouse, it's very difficult keeping track of the grill during a slam like that. Nothing but experience can guide you through that and Jim just didn't have it. He won't last.
Dave, Kevin and Van are all looking very strong. Robert's getting by but he crows too much advice to other while floundering at his own station. Kevin is looking the strongest, though if he continues to shine by riding the failures of others, it will catch up to him. He needs to succeed by himself. Dave is doing admirably for a guy with one functional arm. It's a valiant effort but it will eventually be his undoing. You can't realistically put someone like that on the meat or fish station, so Dave will be denied the real opportunities to prove himself. Ramsey will get rid of Dave later on but it will be a gentle dismissal. The guy really is fighting. Van has emerged as my favorite just because of his full, over-the-top attitude. He's definitely cocky but history has shown that Ramsey reads this as confidence and rewards it. Unless Van royally messes up, he's final four material along with Kevin and Ariel. Suzanne might squeeze into the last spot, but that's pretty iffy.

The previews showed Robert seeking the paramedics' help once again. That's just tragic since going out on the same note would be the absolute worst way to end his sophomore run at the prize. I don't think the producers will be too keen on letting him compete a third time.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

An interesting and unintended observation:

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When Hell's Kitchen didn't record this week (the two-hour finale of "Fat Chicks Need Love Too" was on instead) I visited FOX's Hell's Kitchen website to see if perhaps the episode had been or would be aired on a different night. No such luck, it was delayed for the whole week. But while I was there, I noticed that one contestant had been crossed out prematurely. I checked back this morning and the error had been corrected.

If you really don't want to know who it was, don't look. I'm putting it in a double spoiler because some people will complain that I'm ruining the suspense, even though this whole comment is already in a spoiler box and if you're stupid enough to get butthurt after opening a spoiler, I really cannot help you. But I'll do what I can to prevent myself needless facepalming.

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Suzanne was prematurely crossed out.

What I believe happened is that the webmaster was never informed that Hell's Kitchen would be taking a one-week hiatus and went ahead with the update as scheduled. When it was discovered by the higher-ups, it was corrected, but not before enough people noticed, for certain.

Anyhow, if the official site is to be any indicator, we already know who is the next to go. At first, I thought this person would have a small chance at the final four, but they've recently been coming undone. Oh well, I didn't care for them much anyhow.

It's just pretty neat that FOX inadvertantly spoiled its own show.

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