Top Chef Texas Not-Really-A-Recap: Episode 18, “Reunion”


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It’s over! It’s really truly and finally over, in the most overest sense of the word. Happy dance! And it only took 18 hours of our lives to get here. Anyway! So how’s about that reunion? That sure was something. I mean, I assume. I turned it on and everything last night, but then I [...]

Top Chef Texas Recap: Episode 17, “Finale”


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  So! That’s over, then. Moving on. No? Not yet? You’re really still expecting me to recap this thing? FINE. BUT FIRST I HAVE TO EAT SOME CADBURY CREME EGGS. *eats some Cadbury Creme Eggs* Okay, let’s get this over with. Paul and Sarah get the details on their final challenge, which is all that [...]

Can ‘Top Chef’ Be Saved?


Saltines & Vienna Sausages = DO NOT WANT

Tonight is the finale of what is — hands down — the worst season of Top Chef ever. Like, scientifically speaking. It’s bad, people. So bad I’m jumping the gun with my “let’s review the season and figure out what went wrong” post before the winner has been chosen, because it matters just that little. [...]

Top Chef Texas Recap: Episode 16, “Fire & Ice”


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OH MY GOD. IT’S STILL NOT OVER YET. THIS SEASON WILL NEVER END. ABANDON ALL HOPE. WEEP SOUPY TEARS OF SOUP. Every season of Top Chef, this happens. I think the finale — the final finale-finale — is a good one or two episodes sooner than it actually is. They start making such a big [...]

Top Chef Texas Recap: Episode 15, “Culinary Games”


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So. Yeah. *shoves fingers in mouth, bites down, stifles frustrated YAWWWRRRRPP so not to wake the baby from his nap* We get it, Top Chef. While planning this season, you read The Hunger Games and caught up on a bunch of seasons of Survivor. Then you listened to Adele a lot and the album made [...]