Noooooooooooooooooo!
Ever since I was tricked into watching an episode of Top Chef last month I’ve been completely hooked (thanks Matt!). Marcel’s advancement to the finals. Luckily for Bravo, Marcel is the perfect reality competition candidate, because he has obvious talent (enough with the foams!) and couldn’t be a more unlikeable presence amongst, well, most humans.
Tonight’s penultimate episode was good. Very good. It had some really neat food being prepared, and the drama was laid on thick. The beauty of Top Chef is that it rarely focuses on drama that doesn’t take place in the competition area (i.e. The Kenmore Kitchen), until the show has weeded out a good portion of the cast. Sure people have been saying they hate Marcel since the second or third episode (I was saying it after the first), but we never saw any of the real horn-locking until at least halfway through the season.
Now it’s all out there and couldn’t be more entertaining. Tonight’s episode might have had one of the best reality-exchanges I’ve heard in a long time:
Ilan: I can’t wait to make you cry tomorrow.
Marcel: It’ll take more than a little paprika to make me cry.
BAM! Take that scripted drama!
Anyway, Sam is former executive chef of Punch here in New York City… I’m sure he’ll be okay.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
I gotta give the show credit…at almost no point could i figure out who was gonna be voted off. I just kept going back and forth through out the episode. I was pretty shocked at the end. Viva Marcel!