It remains strange to me that Top Chef went from being review-worthy to un-W.O.T.-blurb-worthy.

If the episodes are anything like the magazine, they will be best watched backwards.

You'd be right. /shallow

I'm glad to be scrolling through the comments before THIS gets going….

My top 26 (why 26? I don't know!)

Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Tilda Swinton - Only Lovers Left Alive
Joaquin Phoenix - Inherent Vice
Jake Gyllenhall - Nightcrawler
Jack O'Connell - Starred Up
Agata Kulesza - Ida

I reckon Tim was off dealing with his boner this episode. Gotta think he'll work up another one soon, though, right?

Speech!!! Speeeeech!!!

Pretty good episode in and of itself, but I'm afraid the way it played out may have inadvertently short-circuited the rest of the season. Gregory has been absolutely dominant, but at least Mei (almost alone among this cast) seemed to have a puncher's chance to take him down. But with Gregory taking her down in two…

Consorting as I do with aging beer-drinkers, I can say that George's demeanor was not necessarily indicative of displeasure with the circumstances. He might just be an old crank.

The format tweaks all serve to make the game a little meaner. I'm not sure I like it, but it definitely befits what I could easily imagine as a general crankiness among the makers of this long-in-the-tooth show. And Blais has now angled for gold stars on his forehead for so long there was nothing left to do but make…

In the grave…that's where we'll be together, right? The grave?

The fact that Kass is married to Goldberg doesn't count as a surprise?

Seeing Easy Rider for the first time at a university theater in….'86 or so. At the very end of the movie, the rednecks kill Dennis Hopper, after which the following conversation takes place behind me:

I bore a grudge against this movie when it came out, because my daily ritual back then was to shoot pool between classes (often instead of classes) at the UGA student center, and for about six months after The Color of Money debuted it was impossible to get a table. Which speaks to how effectively it romanticized the…

OK, I see. Here's what I meant — Todd makes the claim that recent real-life events would seem to render Iran a poor choice of "Homeland" enemy going forward, as they render the show's machinations strategically obsolete. I actually agree with that as far as it goes — even though the show does operate in an alternate…

Sonia may be at the right site, but she's definitely in the wrong room.

Good episode, although Laura's green-screened confessional after their initial beach talk sort of telegraphed the result, I thought. I don't remember them doing that before. I'd rather Katie left — although I find her an appealing person, she's just not much of a player.

UYD 395 was the best live episode they've ever done. Seth can sometimes clam up in a live setting, relying too heavily on well-worn catchphrases and forcing Jonathan to work too hard to get laughs. But the flight delay from LAX provided some real-world fodder for their usual outrage and sense of absurdity, and it…

At least he has a look — unlike Bennett, who seems straight out of an episode of Magnum P.I.