“Hell’s Kitchen”: Julia is 86′d
Last night was an intense episode. Things are definitely ramping up towards the end of the season and the competition is getting fierce. Definitely check out these awesome recaps:
The “reward challenge” (for lack of a better term to describe it) involved the competitors (who have now merged into one team at last) preparing lunch for a bunch of high schoolers. Then, in grand “Hell’s Kitchen” tradition, the teenagers vote on who made the best food and that person wins. And that person is? Julia! She reveled in her victory and a chance to go spend the night at the Green Valley Resort. And she got to take a friend! That friend was Jen and they both had a great time exclaiming over the bidet. They also got to meet Heather, the winner of last year’s “Hell’s Kitchen”. She gave them some corney, pre-packaged advice and they waxed poetic over her vast knowledge of competing on a Fox reality show. Whatever, I still think the other gal should have won.
They come back just in time for dinner service and while they’re doing pretty good, there are some notable exceptions. Julia just can’t seem to get the garnish station down. She loses things and generally looks pretty clueless for most of the service. Which is a shame because we know she can do better. Josh just plain fucks things up royally the entire time. He’s on the appetizer station and he just cannot seem to get it together. Gordon reaches the end of his rapidly fraying rope and just busts Josh out of there. Get out, take off your coat, leave it here and go get a clue. It was pretty dramatic. So Josh is gone, leaving just the four of them. And you think that’d make them pull together but Rock’s temper keeps getting the better of him and he seems to actually want to perpetuate this unhappy atmosphere in the kitchen.
So after the service, I was surprised to see Gordon still wanted to get rid of someone, seeing as how we already lost Josh. But he did. He picked Bonnie to select the two to put up before him and she (wisely) chose Julia and Rock. I was very disappointed to see Julia go because I know she’s an exceptional cook. But I think it was the best choice Gordon could have made. So now Julia is gone and it’s down to three. Dun dun DUN!!!
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