Top Chef - Season 8, Episode 6
Note to readers: This is a short summary of the episode that will be replaced by a more complete recap before the next episode airs. Stay tuned!
As other bloggers have noted (even recently), there are two types of reality show villain. There's the kind that knows playing the bad boy (or girl) will garner more attention, and thus more mini-fame. The more obvious he or she is at trying to get on other people's nerves, the more pathetic it looks. Ladies and gentlemen...Marcel.
The other type of villain has no idea how they're coming off to their competitors and to the general public. They honestly believe that they're just dandy people, and are oblivious to how obnoxious they can be. Ladies and gentlemen...Jamie.
But more on that in the full recap. Tonight's episode dispenses with the Quickfire entirely, and sends the chefs out to catch fish. The twelve remaining contestants are split into four teams of three, and must use the fish they catch to prepare a beach feast.
Richard, Marcel, and Fabio decide to focus all of their energy into one dish, the better to make it great, and the better to spread blame around should something go wrong.
Antonia, Jamie, and Tiffani decide to each focus on their own dish, the better to make them great, and the better to be able to ignore the problems of the others.
Mike/Angelo/Tiffany and Dale/Carla/Tre split the difference, and try to put together diverse menus while still lending a hand to one another, so it's nice to see that those two teams wind up on top. Carla scores the individual win, and gets to put another trip on the travel itinerary. Her husband must be jazzed to see how this season is playing out.
Richard/Marcel/Fabio and Antonia/Jamie/Tiffani fall to the bottom. Antonia had a great dish, and is only there because of her teammates. She gets criticized for not helping out the other ladies enough, and to my disappointment, does not give the judges the backtalk they so desperately deserve in such a situation. On the plus side, she gets to stick around while both of her teammates get punted. Tiffani completes her redemption from Season 1, while Jamie wrecks any goodwill she built up in Season 5. You probably should have planned that out a little better, Princess Scallop.
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Twice the Judges told Antonia that she could have been in the running for the win but for her connection to Jamie. Then Padma asks her for the second week in a row, "Why are you crying?"....or was it dubbed from the week before?????
Yes it would've been great if she had been able to channel Jen at that moment, but Antonia's a mom. She doesn't want to pull a "Do as I say not as I do".
This show makes me crazy and I'm addicted to your recap. Thank-you.
so baffling...my memory of jamie during her season was nothing but positive. i remember loving her personality, thinking her food looked amazing (i guess i'm just a sucker for soup and scallops?), and thinking she had a shot...then being sad at her elimination.
then again, i hated tiffani in season 1 and wanted dave to lose it and throw gnocchi at her.
perhaps when tiffani saw herself on tv and started acting like the nice person she is, the universe went all wobbly and had to throw a bad attitude onto some other chef...and poor jamie got in the way...
I was waiting to see the full recap before commenting but I guess you've been busy, so I'll just say real quick that Tiffani managed to completely change my opinion of her. She seems so much more centered and self-aware these days, and it's a shame she didn't make it further just for that alone.
i miss you!!!
ditto!
are you ok limecrete? getting worried about you!
Has anyone heard anything? Hope all is ok.
Hope that you just got busy in the real world and that nothing serious has happened to you... I love reading your thoughts on the show, and on all the others you recap.
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