I cannot stand those ads, and can't believe either of them agreed to do it. I'm sure the money was good, but have some self respect people.

Sonia's premise about culinary influence was flawed, but her statement is in a way, correct but only in recent times. I've heard John Besh mention how Vietnamese influence has been working it's way into New Orleans food several times on his cooking show.

Look on the bright side, now you can get 10 minutes of Hot Aussie each week on Last Chance Kitchen. If she can bring it week after week, the way Kristen did last season, she can make it back in.

Agreed. Had this been restaurant wars, as the self imposed leader of their team, he probably would have gotten the boot. Ultimately, although the shrimp dish was his idea, they screwed it up. Had they turned out a delicious dish, Janine likely would have been safe, regardless of whether or not that dish was truly…

The thing is, they thought the dish that Travis made was fine, not fantastic, but not bad. The shrimp dish train wreck may have been his idea, but nobody held a gun to Janine's head to make her cook it. If I had been on Travis' team I would have said, "Well Travis, since none of us have ever even heard of a…

This interview with one of the show's writers explains their approach to the story line: http://www.tvguide.com/News…

Thanks JT.

I bought it. I can imagine a scenario whereby when they hatched the plan, Saul probably just said, we are going to implicate you, and left it at that, so that Carrie wouldn't know what was coming, nor did Saul for that matter, and just let it grow organically from there. Otherwise it might not seem real enough to…

Prudhomme finally got serious about losing weight. I guess he got tired of riding around on that rascal.
I too was totally perplexed about the chefs not creating their own spice mix. The only thing I can figure is that NONE of the four of them were confident that they could do it, so each figured, well if we let…

Pretty good review…still a few incorrect details. The fish course was blackened trout not salmon. And that was the dish created by Paul Prudhomme, not the shrimp and tasso starter.

Yeah the throw down would have been great. Especially if they had tried to replicate a dish as in the challenge. Hugh suggested it in response to Tom's dismissal of Hugh's suggestion that an hour really isn't much time to try to replicate a dish you've just tried once.

How did you make it through the review without using the word erection?

Agreed.  Actually, for the past few seasons, I have enjoyed reading Hugh's recaps on the Bravo site, then coming here to engage in the discussions with other viewers.

Yeah, as I was watching that, I had the sinking suspicion that the producers probably encouraged the Auzzie chef to wear the Daisy Dukes, which really annoyed me.  If however, that was really her own decision, it is a baffling one.  Kitchens can be dangerous places what with all the pointy objects and searing hot food…

I didn't care for it.  I thought it was going to be a fitting end with Michael and Fi dying, but nope.  Given they didn't, there seem to be some serious plot holes, but then again, there always are on Burn Notice.  The CIA wasn't suspicious when they didn't find their bodies?  And the kid, wouldn't he have pretty much…

Yea, the jump was just goofy.  I thought they were going to show us how Eric managed to live but no, instead we get Bill and Sam presenting a plan where humans need to help vampires…why?  Eric's sister died VERY quickly after being infected with Hep-V.  Why are the infected vampires able to wander around reaping…

I agree with Nephew.  I think Gelman killed the prostitute, and for some reason the killer knew that and perhaps helped him with the body.  The killer asked who was making the drop, if it wasn't Gelman, perhaps he would have insisted on it.  I did not for a minute think that the killer had somehow hacked together a…

I totally agree that BMO was sort of tweaking in his own way.  It sort of reminded me of the Philip K. Dick short story The Electric Ant.

I wonder if the AV Club existed in the 60s, would they be writing recaps about it and complaining about the lack of character development, or plot points that are made then abandoned.

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