I was astonished when I saw that there were only six contestants left. The show feels like it's still in the early days when there's still so much dross muddled with the gold (?) that you can't tell what's what.
I didn't even bother to take notes when I watched the show last night. This is what I remember:
* Ed criticized Amanda using almost exactly the same slew of insults he had earlier heaped on Alex. And why did Tiffany allow him to stretch out her dress like that?
* As Angelo appears crazier, I like him more. If he keeps this up, I won't mind if he wins. Still, calling a hot dog roll a lobster roll was a pathetic attempt to class up his remarkably stupid choice of bread. And he has only met his fiancée (whom he loves so much) twice!
* Kevin came off as a petulant baby. It was obviously unfair to expect Angelo to handle all the order taking (even though he was dumb enough to volunteer); for Kevin to act as though Angelo was committing a cardinal sin by reneging on his offer was self-serving and small.
* Amanda did make me almost laugh at one point--I can't remember why--but what a dodo she was to make her tuna tartare the day before. And if leaving Top Chef was the hardest thing she'd ever done, she must have had a surprisingly easy time kicking all those drugs on which she used to be hooked.
* 3 x 150 = 550.
* Kelly is a soft-spoken bully, which may be the worst kind. As she was coercing Amanda to forgo using crab, I flash-backed to her snakiness during the school lunch episode (particularly her "who, me?" incredulity when Arnold got after her) and wanted to make her cry.
* Bonus discovery: Kenny has a tattoo on his stomach that reads "Beast in the Kitchen."
P.S. I'm listening to the latest installment of the Firesign Theater Radio Hour and caught yet another of Bronwyn's smug/snide comments about FT. Phooey on her, say I (although I must say that even I have been wincing at the enormous amount of awful fake black talk).
