Top Chef Just Desserts

[Sarah]

Boy, these dessert cookies are melodramatic.

In other cooking show news, Matt Walsh was on the second of last night's Hell's Kitchens.

[Sarah]

Non sequitur, just because I have to crow about this beyond Chinatown

What did I see from my kitchen window when I got up this morning?  This:



Almost that close. 

The town was a-buzz.

[Kim Kelly]

i agree with the spaz, mayonnaise is GROSS. she's growing on me.

i hate the heather that is left and always have. god, she is stank. such a shitty attitude.

i like zach. whatever. he won me over. kind of love that he doesn't eat real food. haaaaate hate hate his team ~diva~ teammates.

[Sarah]

I dislike Danielle slightly less than I used to, but I still find her tiresome.  Plus she never seems to make anything good.  Morgan, on the other hand, often shines in the food department (or so we're told) but comes off as an absolutely loathsome human being.  Even when I make allowances for him because he's clearly desperately closeted and thus overcompensating, I still find him repellent.

As for so-called team so-called diva, I grew to like Zac awhile ago, after initially finding his pixie routine tedious.  Over the same stretch, I grew to dislike Heather and much as I want to like Yigit--because of his neat name, his good manners, and the fact that I love me an agglutinate language--he seems to be a bit smug. 

When it comes down to it, I'm rooting for sad sack Eric, just because so many noses would be put out of joint if he won.  And, in the end, as long as Morgan loses, I don't much care.

[not that clay]

That Morgan guy has to realize he's a PASTRY CHEF, right? All that macho posturing coming from a pastry chef is just insane.

[Kim Kelly]

I dislike Morgan, too, but I actually cheered when he won the quickfire because it made Heather pissy. I think everything makes her pissy, to be honest though. Twitching bunny rabbit noses probably put her in a bad mood.

[Martin]

I like Heather!
I dislike Morgan!

[Kim Kelly]

I like Heather!
I dislike Morgan!

Wait. What?

[Martin]

You heard me!

[Sarah]

I can see liking Heather.  I did, too, till she started getting all snippy and showing signs of being a very poor loser.

I think it's significant that nice Eric chooses to hang out with Team Diva at home, while Danielle gravitates toward Morgan.

[Martin]

Agreed. She lost me a little bit when she started to bitch and moan about everything. She should just shut up and be good at making desserts.

[Sarah]

Yes, she's obviously good at what she does, but she's letting Morgan get under her skin.  I'm sympathetic, but I want to give her a smack and tell her to ignore him.  Right now, she's doing exactly what he wants.  It's one of the ways bullies win.

[Kim Kelly]

I hated her before Morgan. She was extremely unsympathetic to anyone who showed emotion -- and not just Seth's overblown outbursts, but also Malika and the other Heather.Top Chef is meant to be incredibly stressful, and producers manipulate them so there are tears and fights. The call times are early, and then the judging table can go on until 4 am. I would crack. Let the other people deal with stress in their own way, and don't snipe and judge an passive aggressively shout, "GROW THE FUCK UP!" or whatever just after they leave the room.

Ugh. She just comes off as such a Bitter Betty, and it's not cute.

[Sarah]

I don't remember her being unsympathetic to Malika, just that she and some others were flabbergasted when Malika said she was ready to go home (this was an episode or two before M. finally did quit).  And I seem to recall that the episode when she told Heather to grow the fuck up--an outburst that echoed what I was feeling myself--was the same one when she really started getting furious at Morgan.  In the early episodes, I just found her somewhat arrogant but also competent and calm, which for me made up for the ego.   

Still, hate her by all means.  No skin off my teeth, as someone once said to me.

[Sarah]

P.S. When it comes down to it, I think they're all awful people.  Except maybe Eric.