Oh, and Emily was the best Charleston chef they could cast? Really?

This was a truly unpleasant hour, but I think that's become a Top Chef tradition — the season 2 Thanksgiving debacle (Mike's Flintstonian potatoes); the Mia-Cliff fight during that season's holiday studio party challenge (where Mia self-eliminates to save an undeserving Elia); Tom gives the season 5 chefs a talking-to…

Here's hoping Katsuji goes down tonight. The first time around, there was novel outsider quality surrounding his weaselitry. This season, he just seems like a douchebot. At least John is entertaining in his new semi-successful attempts to emulate a human being.

True. But he and his mouth are now trusted around kids, as judge of that Man vs. Child Chef Showdown. He's like Mikey on Valium on that show.

I like Blais, always have. I haven't eaten his food, but I ended up rooting for him (and Antonia) in both of his/their seasons. He's a character. I've never gotten the hate, especially since there were other chefs worthy of much more hostility/ridicule in both his seasons. He's a try-hard, but he's never been mean or…

I think he's the new go-to Hate Guy — they know they can't bring Marcel back anymore, and Isabella turned into a teddy bear, and the Voltaggios are about as entertaining as roof shingles.

Exactly. Compare that to All in the Family which swam in awards almost every season of its run, and had its living room set installed in the Smithsonian. A lot of the other Lear shows live in that kind of shadow in terms of legacy.

He could have gotten self-involved all over me anytime he wanted.

It did get better after season 1, mostly because they got rid of David the lawyer/boyfriend and Ann actually started being independent. It was good for several years until Mackenzie Phillips' problems set off a need for a revolving door of new supporting characters in the later years. Also before Schneider became the…

It was a Top 10/20 show for most of its run, but it wasn't an awards magnet so it never had the prestige of other Lear projects.

I would pay another dollar a month to make that happen.

He would be the only human still necessary at the station.

I've binge-watched West Wing episodes endlessly for years. The quality of the writing and acting holds up great for me, even if the idealism was a little syrupy in the first couple of seasons. They didn't hesitate to go darker once Sorkin left and John Wells took over.

Totally agree with Entourage. I was hooked on each new episode, but now I can't think of a single reason to watch any of it ever again. I can't recall one moment that I remember being ha-ha funny.

Agreed, lots of quality episodes. In fact I started binge watching some of them after posting here overnight. I loved Timeless, Muse, Relativity, Living Witness, and even quirkier eps like 11:59. Also, I squee'd anytime Reg Barclay and/or Deanna Troy showed up. But because the show was more episodic than serialized…

Makes it even sadder for me to contemplate how it wouldn't have been a fantasy if the Bushes and Katherine Harris hadn't gotten away with stealing the 2000 election from Gore.

VOY had a more interesting premise than DS9, but I think they threw most of it out the nearest airlock a few episodes in, when the Maquis crew and the ship's crew became one big happy. And when things started getting stale, they brought in a hot chick in a catsuit and lots of Borg. I liked the stories and issues that…

Can't wait for all those scenes where Quark and Mot the Barber make caustic jokes about the smell of Morn's farts.

Imagine if the GOP was led by a social moderate like Arnie Vinnick. We'd all be sleeping at night again. Instead of laying awake, armed, on a mattress that is protecting our life savings.

Brilliantly calculated move on their part…send Pence to Hamilton so that people focus on that rather than the lawsuit settlement, or any one of a dozen other disgusting deeds being carried out at the moment.