“Hell’s Kitchen” - I thought this was the finale!
First off, I’m sorry I wasn’t around yesterday. We were out of town visiting my parents over the weekend and I expected we would bring our wireless router with us. We did not. Without it, it was impossible to access the internet from our laptops and trying to use my parents’ computer is akin to banging my head on the desk. So while I did watch “Big Brother” on Sunday night, I was unable to chime in yesterday with my thoughts on the “goings on” (in a word: pleased, but ultimately worried for Eric). So I apologize and I hope you were able to find sufficient “Big Brother” goodness on the usual recap sites.
Now, on to “Hell’s Kitchen”. We got home just shy of 11pm last night, and while I’d forgotten to DVR the show, I knew the satellite had “auto tuned” to FOX so I was able to “rewind” two hours to watch the show. Didn’t want to miss the finale, after all! So imagine my surprise when virtually NOTHING happened the ENTIRE episode. First off, we had virtually 15 minutes of unnecessary recappage. I think it was actually closer to 8 minutes but it felt like 15. If you aren’t familiar with the show by now, then you’ve got problems. And this episode was hardly going to be the one episode that had you riveted to the screen.
So Rock and Bonnie were off to the Green Valley Resort where there was lots of shtick about their potential restaurant and then they had a final challenge where they had to prepare their signature dishes for a group of judges that included both past winners of the show and Robin Leech. And, Bonnie won. Inexplicably, you might think. I think what they’re trying to do is psyche us up because I don’t see any way that Rock CAN’T win this thing. They threw Bonnie a bone with the challenge, that is all. Don’t get too comfortable, Bonnie!
The pair return to LA and check on the progress of their “restaurants”. If you’re familiar with the show, the final two get to decorate the “Hell’s Kitchen” restaurant however they’d like, with a divider running down the middle of the room to indicate the two separate restaurants. All seems to be well. Then they bring in the former contestants. They’re all pretty happy to be there and be reunited. However, Julia finds herself rather emotional. Which I can totally understand because she completely rocks and she definitely saw herself in the final two. But Rock and Bonnie freaked at her breakdown and when it came time to chose teams, Bonnie selected her last which had to do wonders for her ego. She was worried that Julia might hinder them with her emotional state. Whatever.
And that was pretty much it. Yeah, what a disappointment. Tune in next week for the REAL finale.
August 7th, 2007 at 11:26 am
I thought it was the finale, too! It got to be about 40 past the hour and I said “Oh, no, this has to be two parts!” So annoying.