Watching Reality TV

The one overall distracting element on last night’s show was Melissa’s hair.  Her hair has always been distracting, don’t get me wrong, but last night it was the worst it’s ever been.  See, in that picture there it appears to be brushed and somewhat controlled.  Somewhat.  Last night, it looked like a rat’s nest.  And about the best she does to control it during service is to pull it back into a sloppy pony tail.  I think she thinks her hair is beautiful or something but all I see when I look at her is hair getting in the food and that freaks me out.  Didn’t help that she had a raging zit on her chin either, but I’m not really holding that against her as we all know those darned things show up completely unwarranted.  But the HAIR.  OMG.

The woman herself was little better as she barked out ineffectual orders and dragged the Red Team down. Because of her, the Red Team lost the reward challenge and missed out on getting pampered at a spa.  Instead, they had to decorate Hell’s Kitchen for a wedding that they would be serving. I felt bad for the bride and groom already.

The night was mostly focused on Melissa and how much she sucks and how much everyone else hates her.  Even the Blue Team was skeptical of her and they don’t have to deal with her like the Red Team does.  At least, not yet.

The dinner service actually went pretty well.  For the first time ever, all the customers (this time wedding guests) were served.  Ramsay was apparently testing out their ability to properly time foods.  The Blue Team excelled during the service while the Red Team stumbled (mostly due to Melissa, of course) and found themselves the “winners” of the evening.  Jen was selected as the “best of the worst” and in turn nominated both Bonnie and Melissa for elimination.  That’s the choice I would have made, not necessarily wanting Bonnie to go home yet but better than to nominate Julia who does not deserve in any way to be on the chopping block.  No, this was all about getting rid of Melissa.

Color me shocked when Gordon snatched Melissa back from the brink of destruction, however.   For whatever reason he decided to give her another chance to prove herself a decent cook (since until this week, she’d been pretty good) and had her switch to the Blue Team.  The boys looked decidedly unhappy to have her join them, but only Rock griped on camera.  The women looked visibly relieved to have her gone from their team and have Bonnie safe.  Melissa?  She’d better thank her lucky stars.

Damnit, I have a whole ‘nother week to look at that damned hair.