“It is a bummer to watch Miranda try so hard to be the “new her” that she’s constantly insecure about who she is and her place in her new world. L.A. is not for Miranda! Get our girl back to New York!”

another (maybe not so) shocking exit: Padma announced this week that this will be her last season of Top Chef. end of an era. :(

i got more than a little verklempt when i saw that the wedding arch flowers were done in the trans flag colors, especially when held in contrast to how Tricia initially responded (privately, to Sam) after scoring the gig.

a prawn’s digestive tract being left in a completed dish is not “micro-level nitpicking” - it can leave behind toxins, trigger an allergy, or even kill you. but beyond that, it also ruins the texture of a dish, as it is quite grainy and unpleasant. not deveining prawns before serving these judges is gross at best and…

her reading of, “at least i’m only getting fucked by ONE member of this family” in S1 was iconic. we have always been Willa stans in this house. (as someone in the same line of work, she’s a goddamn inspiration.)

question: did Willa ever explicitly state her wants and needs? no. did she say, “I don’t want to live in Oman for x, y, z reason”? no. what she DID do was convince Connor to stay in the race, “just to see what happens” and suggested he could do all sorts of things like write a book about his time on the campaign trail,…

if you didn’t interpret what Willa said at the party as subtle, skillful manipulation, then congrats, it worked on you too.

if Kendall doesn’t die of a drug overdose before the end of the series, i will eat my hat.

nah, Tom is way too much of a striver to ever do a swan dive. if anyone’s gonna do it, it’s Roman.

i mean, this is almost right, except that S4 Willa is a much smoother operator than S1 Willa, and this time she only needs a few minutes at the party to successfully convince Connor to stay in the race, “to see what happens.”

“will we be able to live above ground?” is a hilarious callback to S1 when Connor asks Willa to move to his ranch. (“how far is it to a Starbucks?”)

yeah, i think it was a pretty accurate depiction of how the wealthy elite operate; “right” vs. “left” performatively standing on opposite sides of some nebulous political spectrum, but in the end, everyone finds themselves in the same room, eating the same hors d’oeuvres, making contingencies for any possible outcome.…

listen, i’m no prude, but i just wanted to say that i found it QUITE off-putting that the show went out of its way to explicitly state that young Charlotte was 17 years old, then proceeded to show us some of the most graphic sex scenes i’ve ever seen on a Netflix show. they then repeat her age a second time in a later…

“One (Roman) toward slavish recreation of their father’s last wishes and the other (Kendall) toward trying to cosplay as him.”

i mean, let’s not discount the foreshadowing/easter egg of Logan always referring to Roman as “Romulus”, infamously known for killing his brother, as the legend goes. Kendall might be the one cosplaying as the boss right now, but Roman is the only one of the 3 with a lick of actual business sense.

Victoire was runner-up on season 2 of Top Chef: Italy, but her hometown is listed as Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. So, decidedly not French. (Unless you want to get into a debate about whether people from former Belgian or French colonies are considered Belgian/French.)

“wahhhh i’m in the comments section of an episode i didn’t watch complaining about things that were resolved by said episode!” 

maybe watch the episode first before commenting, as they do indeed shout out The Police, specifically, during this exchange. 

can’t believe we got a whole love letter to perfect 4-season TV shows without so much as a *passing mention* of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the most perfect 4 season show to ever do it. (a roadmap which was pitched from the very beginning, in fact.)

i mean, Huff ran for 2 seasons and it was about a therapist and that was funny (and dark) as hell, so.