I watched the first 4 episodes and couldn't handle how ridiculous it was.

Sure, but that's how the challenge is. Neither Brooke nor Shirley actually cooked their entire menus, but both oversaw the cookery of everything.

I strongly hope so, as I'm in the camp that believes there is no way Trump makes it through a full term.

I saw a promo for Once Upon A Time on Friday and was legitimately surprised that show is still on the air. It feels like it's been on for 10+ seasons now (according to the internet, this is season 6), yet I don't know a single person who has ever mentioned watching it.

All movies should be heist movies.

After desperately needing to enact the first travel ban so fast because we are in grave danger of people from those seven countries that have not produced a single person that carried out a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

It's fun when people with a shit ton of followers delete their tweets, as if lots of people haven't already screen grabbed them all.

I had a conversation about this with someone the other day and he brought up a few points I thought of to argue the opposite point. Trump's incompetence is partially a good thing, because it is stopping him from doing some of the things he wants. Pence is a professional and would be actually able to enact his awful…

The leak is real, but the news is fake.

I did not have a similar feeling as you, but I respect your difference of opinion.

I highly doubt Shirley regrets giving it to her because Shirley doesn't seem like the kind of person who would want to win because her competition forgot something, and Top Chef isn't that kind of show. All the chefs are always willing to share with each other because they want to win fair.

The judges don't care that much about desserts, because this isn't a pastry chef competition. And I really only recall Padma thinking Shirley's dessert was the absolute best dish, and she's seemed to have almost as strong of an anti-Broke lean as the comments here.

I'm basing my conspiracy theory entirely on the fact that she apparently said repeatedly on Watch What Happens that she did in fact order the pork belly and the hotel didn't deliver it. There is no benefit in lying about that. Not saying it absolutely happened, as I wasn't there and did not see the order form, but it…

Do you understand reality tv? They always manufacture some type of drama. Without the question of whether or not Brooke would be able to use the pork belly there would have been absolutely nothing going on whatsoever in that episode. That was the only plot line in the episode, so of course they played it up in the…

I don't really know what that comment is supposed to mean.

You're thinking of the third course. The second course was Brooke's perfectly cooked octopus and garlic purée and garlic chips that the judges raved over VS Shirley's ramen with a somewhat flat broth that they said would have been fine 10 years but not now that all the great ramen shops have opened up in America.

Since Shirley had pork belly as her backup protein, it wasn't that big of a deal. You have to remember that Top Chef is still a reality tv competition show. I highly doubt that the uncertainty over the pork belly was very serious.

My god there is so much anti-Brooke vitriol in these comments. It is absolutely ridiculous. She has shown over the course of two full seasons of this show that she is an excellent chef and competitor. Yes, she wanted redemption after coming in second place her first time around, in the most awfully planned finale in…

Her mother has won neighborhood awards for her flan. Because apparently the neighborhood Brooke's parents live in has flan contests.

I hope that if Randall writes about this show again next year he still manages to find a way to throw that Amanda picture in every week.