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(S04E14) "My goal tonight is to make Chef Ramsay second guess the fact that he got rid of me." - Jen
Oh Jen, just when we had started to forget you, you come back with the nasty attitude and the chip on your shoulder. Like Mary Tyler Moore, you can turn the world on with your smile.
This is part one of the finale, where final contestants Petrozza and Christina design their restaurants and have to complete a service with some of the eliminated contestants. The returning players are Jen, Louross, Bobby, Corey, Matt, and Ben. Not sure why these contestants are the ones who return, other than they're the most controversial. They're not all the most recent rejects, because Roseann would be in the mix if that was the case and not Ben.
I have mixed feelings about these contestants coming back, which I'll explain after the jump.
I really like it when Hell's Kitchen gets down to the nitty gritty of two contestants. Finally, the backstabbing and soap opera stuff is gone and we can focus on the two last chefs and their plans for their own restaurants, and there's just a sense that there's more breathing room without all of the other players getting in the way. Aside from some comments by Christina about Petrozza having to push his fireplace wall into her space a little bit and her hatred of the stripes that the designer put on her walls (even though she said she liked the stripes and picked them herself), this episode didn't have any of the nastiness of the other episodes. But that will change next week when the service begins and we have to deal with Jen's attitude, conflicting personalities, and whatever Matt might do. I kinda wish they didn't bring back any of the other contestants and just have the final two go up against each other, somehow, some way.
Still not sure why Whoopi Goldberg showed up for 12 seconds and then vanished forever (she didn't even have a hand in who won the challenge). Unless she comes back for the finale next week, it was like trying to find Alfred Hitchcock's cameo in one of his movies. I also don't get Petrozza's near-orgasmic "Oh my Gahd...Oh my Gahd...Oh my Gahd..." when Whoopi appeared.
Petrozza wins the challenge, by the way, chosen by the five executive chefs from his other restaurants. It comes down to the final chef (of course it does), but in the end Petrozza's filet mignon with onions and risotto is chosen over Christina's New York strip steak with succotash and potatoes.
So the finale next week will have the players helping Petrozza and Christina win, but before that, a few observations.
- I think Ramsay's "I'm wondering if I have the right finalists" trick is manipulative. Not just to Petrozza and Christina but to the audience as well. They pushed it in the coming attractions last week, and for a split second I agreed with Christina when she said she thought they were going to bring back another contestant to compete again.
- The 10 minute season recap at the start is so rapid-fire that I doubt anyone who missed an episode or two would know what the heck happened. And it just proves that the BS stuff like the hot tub and shopping trips are a really boring part of the show. Though it was fantastic to relive Petrozza's "Hen in a Pumpkin" signature dish from the first episode. Good to see his signature dish changed so drastically in this ep.
- What's up with the big spectacle in Times Square? You could see hundreds of New Yorkers watching Ramsay, Petrozza, and Christina film the scene in the middle of Times Square, then a giant congrats to the two contestants was flashed on the big screen (though it's hard to say if that was superimposed later). How did this bit of information about who these contestants were - at least maybe some pics - get out weeks ago? Or did it and I just haven't heard about it?
- All of the flowers that Petrozza wants in his restaurant? That really worries me.
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| Christina |
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