Oh my god ILAN!!!!!  I'd completely forgotten how much I detested that asshole.  And Elia's not much better. And I mean, that hair thing.  Come ON!!

I guess I don't hate this review as much as I did last week's, but I also can't climb aboard with the majority here who apparently think it's just fine.  Only thing I'd quibble with (and it's minor, granted) is her take on Bene's "whining' (sic) on having been thrust into the sous-chef role.  Obviously he allowed it…

My recollection was that it was most definitely his idea.  He brought it up to…I forget, one of his female teammates…he said he should do "front of truck because"…and then you could actually see him struggle for the words.  He SO wanted to just say "because I'm gorgeous" but he knew that would somehow not really…

And how lucky for the judges that they were not "rude" to him as they chastised him for his slimy food AND his dumb judgment call to dazzle the diners with his pretty face—-and screw the food!!  Because, as he warned everyone, if they WERE, he'd be rude right back!!  *shiver me timbers*

Me, neither!!  And I DVR'd the entire Breaking Bad marathon and though I've no time to watch them I refuse to erase them, for sentimental reasons, which means I'll not be able to ever ever DVR anything else, ever.

Right. And she could also cook up a Slim Jim with her Bic lighter and then eat it, which I think is just about her best bit.

I don't think it fell apart like Dexter did, by any stretch!!  Season 1 is simply stellar; I didn't hate Season 2 as apparently more than a few did; and jesus, Glenn Close is…Glenn Close.  I'd watch it for her, for the truly astonishing guest star turns (Ted Danson is marvelous, Martin Short even more so, John Goodman…

I did exactly this about 3 years ago, though I had to rent all the discs from Netflix.  It was during a particularly harsh and reeeeeally ugly mid-January in Indiana, and I surrounded myself with cats and dogs and piled on two down comforters and wore flannel jammie bottoms and thick socks and ate popcorn with REAL…

Just googled her and yes, she is gorgeous.  But as we know, self-confidence is enormously appealing/gorgeous/sexy, and the mere fact that she values herself enough to not submit to a nose job (god, can you imagine?) renders her even MORE beautiful.  I mean…look at Anna Magnani.  And..ummm…Maria Callas.  Not so many of…

Would it be OK if I asked what a salmon ladder was?  Without, you know, promising to watch Arrow or something like that?

Yeah, Joe is the (formerly fat) skinny one with the face of a dead carp.  He's also just as nasty as hell.

Oh my god, belly laugh!!  "You little cunt"!!!!!!

I noticed that as well, and though I wasn't interested enough to rewind, I'm not sure we could even see Caleb's face.  I remember Colton flouncing over to Caleb and hurling himself into his lap, at which time Caleb's face was pretty much buried in Colton's armpit or something.

Oh, god, I don't find colton even remotely attractive, much less handsome!!  I suppose if you were to do the "let's measure how far apart his eyes are, and how much space there is between the bottom of his nose and his upper lip" thing, he'd sort of pass that test.  But IMO there is SO much more to "handsomeness" than…

I definitely still buy cookbooks - and I'm sure I always will.  And if I'm trying something particularly ambitious, I like to have the recipe RIGHT THERE on the counter with me, resulting in many in my huge collection of cookbooks being  covered with dried goo.  Whereas my 20-year-old niece finds a recipe online and…

To me, it's pretty simple as to who is absolutely NOT going to win this competition and of course it has nothing whatsoever to do with cooking, this being Master Chef.  I mean, think about it.  No way in hell would Ramsay have that mug of Krissi's gracing a cookbook with his name on it, especially considering that…

At the opening of the show, during the long shot of the judges' table, my heart and stomach sank to my knees…since with that tousled blonde hair and general body language thing I was convinced the 3rd judge was Christina Applegate, to my horror.  SO Jenna was a bit easier to stomach, considering.

I thought it was more squeamishness than cowardice.

I don't think I can agree that Melanie doesn't have the ability to be sexy.  I sort of agree that she's not too terribly sexy NOW, but I think she's handicapped a bit in that regard by her tomboy haircut and her very round face and that grin that stretches from Maine to Minnesota.

It's not so much that I think Mackenzie is far and away the most beautiful of the five (though I suppose I do) - it's more that she seemed to be the girl who was the most AWARE of her beauty.  And its undeniable power.