I was going to make a comment on that, but there is no way I can top your succinct statement on his magical shotgun.

I just loved the look Cheryl's face right after Pam slapped her.  She looked so satisfied.

So the season is bound to end with Quarles facing off against Raylan, and having his Taxi Driver inspired gun device jam on him right?  I mean they have mentioned it twice already.  

I guess those same people would now be unable to bear watching this.

Nah, Bravo loves innuendo.  Hell Top Chef is by far the most sophisticated show they air.  Everything else is tasteless trashy reality fare.

Frankly I don't give a shit if that makes a nice self contained episode or not, it was damn entertaining.  I'd give it a solid A myself.

Agreed.  Part of what I found funny about the show was that as much of a bad ass he tried to be, he was never actually menacing…just a douche, but when he actually starts killing people, the comedy dies.

I'm not comfortable with a Q character at all.  Part of what made the reboot of the franchise work for me was that they added a good measure of gritty realism to the proceedings.  Bond got shit done in the past two flicks with his fists and guns.  That's it.  No fancy watch with a laser in it.  I realize the Q…

I enjoyed the episode, but the Ray is not paralyzed reveal seemed a little lazy to me.  I was hoping they would do a bit more with it, like having Krieger somehow fix him.

Epic and moronic, as he has been cooking circles around most of the competitors all season.

I think Paul needed to chill out on that one.  They reason he'd be expected to win an Asian cooking challenge is due largely to the fact that of the three, he's the one who is the head chef at a wildly successful Japanese/Asian fusion restaurant, AND has three food trucks that serve, guess what, Asian food.

I don't know, reading the cast blogs, when they describe Paul's food, they are usually gushing over it with unbridled enthusiasm.  I haven't really seen them say the same of Sarah's food.  I agree that Tom is probably her biggest defender on the panel, but aside from arugula up his butt last night, he also usually has…

I'm not crazy about her either.  She and Lindsey seemed like the mean popular girls in your typical high school, with about the same level of emotional intelligence.

I don't believe they were actually required to make Asian food, but with the Asian food masters starting the the cooking relay, I guess that is where they had to go.

Agreed. This whole season has been non-stop horse shit. The gimmicky challenges are supposed to be the exception, not the rule, especially this late in the game.

The other problem they have, is as a young actress, her aging is far outpacing the actual show timeline.  She looked quite different even though it's only supposed to be a few months since we last saw her.  They had the same problem on Weeds, where over 5 seasons something like two years had passed, and the boys…

As a fellow Texan, I am also annoyed at how they've managed to botch this season.  The past few seasons they had entertaining challenges where the contestants go fishing, then cook their catch.  Why not do that one in Texas?  The fishing off the gulf coast is amazing, and it could have been a lot of fun.

I agree with the sentiment that this was a ridiculous challenge that had little to do with being a chef. It's too late in the game for these sorts of shenanigans.  Having said that, I hats off to Lindsay for managing to cook beef cheeks, which can take a long time to get tender, under those conditions.

That twist sucked, because it awards bad planners and penalizes good ones.

Wow, that sounded like the kind of bizarro, awkward, uncomfortable scene that would fit right into a David O. Russell film.  Perhaps he was just working through some new material.