I'm with you on this one. I see Louis winning LCK, and coming back well prepared for the finale.

I can't remember which seasons they did it in, but there have been seasons where immunity was granted when they were down to 4, so winning it took you to the finale.

Maybe all the other guys that the restaurant kept when they let him go were Mexican.

If you haven't read Jacques' autobiography The Apprentice, you should. It is a great read about his very interesting life. He was forwarded a manuscript for Julia's first book Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and he was stunned at how good it was. He said to himself, "this is the book I should have written". …

I don't think they were heavy handed in their efforts to make Nick look bad. I'd be pissed if I knew that Jacques and Tom said those things, and the producers decided to leave that on the cutting room floor. While there have been many examples of this sort of thing before, I think this is one of the few times that…

Agreed. I thought…uh Nick, instead of being pissed off, perhaps you should try a little self reflection to figure out why YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE they didn't want to keep in the kitchen.

Nick seemed to understand it or at least pretended to. When asked by chef Crenn if he'd ever cooked with corn silk before, he claimed he had.

I loved the spat. You couldn't have picked two chefs with more drastically different opinions about what restaurant cuisine should be. It was really uncomfortable but fun to watch. When Tom joined in on the bashing of the chicken dish, and said the corn silk nest was something you'd pull out of your shower drain I…

Although I hated the outcome, and I agree there shouldn't be immunity this late in the game, I don't think Bravo is all that guilty of manufacturing drama in this case. They just got VERY lucky in the way things went down. Had Nick knocked it out of the park and won with that chicken dish, which he attempted because…

My DVR recognized it as a new episode and recorded it. I discovered it a few days later.

Okay, now I officially hate Nicholas. I know he'd won immunity fair and square, but when he was thinking that chocolate chicken dish was risky, but he'd try it because he had immunity, did he not realize the risk he'd be putting on his team mates? I actually am a bit amazed that with the chef he so respected, Pepin…

The Alcatraz episode was truly excellent work, as was the testing of the Hindenburg disaster, and even the first duct tape episode when they made an entire sailboat out of the stuff. But when they dedicated an episode to the movie The Green Hornet, that's about when I switched over to Food Network to see what was…

I used to really like Mythbusters, but they seem to have run out of things to test, so now so many of the episodes are about TV shows and movies, I'm starting to lose interest. I suppose some of that is worthy of testing, but once you move into sci-fi, I think you've lost the plot. I don't expect anything in Star…

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In this case, it does appear Neckbeard understands it better than Palin or Jindal. I don't recall Palin saying anything about freedom of speech when Martin Bashir was fired from MSNBC for suggesting that someone should shit in Sara Palin's mouth.

His restaurant seems to be well regarded in the press, but it just goes to show, being a talented chef does not necessarily mean you can succeed in this competition, where you don't have the luxury of a crew, and you have to come up with dishes off the cuff.

I thought it was awesome that Shirley won at the pizza oven station after giving up the flat top to the pushy Carlos. It was unclear to me if the ovens in oven-gate were community use or were actually Nicholas' cooking station. If it is the latter, Carlos had no right to bitch about needing them.

No mention of Delmond essentially preparing himself for the death of his father. It seems pretty clear to me that he was working on what music he would play for his dad's funeral march. I thought that whole story line was beautifully done, starting with him getting stuck at an intersection as a funeral march went by.

I really believe the series should just end now. I told my wife that as we were watching the closing credits last night. That would be a nice way to wrap up the series. In fact it sort of felt like a series finale to me. I wonder if the did it that way just to hedge their bets in case they decided not to do a season 4.

I don't hate him. I just think he's over confident and doesn't take criticism well.