“Hell’s Kitchen” - Why is Aaron still here?
Last night was another entertaining romp into “Hell’s Kitchen” and what it’s like to work for the devil. Oh Gordon Ramsay, I kid because I love. After the girls’ thrashing last week, it seemed only fair they get a week off the hot seat. They won a challenge that involved the teams preparing sole for the dinner service. The women prepared more “acceptable” sole than the men so they won a fishing and lunch reward with Ramsay himself, who kept a healthy distance from them (and their overspilling cleavage). During the challenge, Aaron started to fall apart (yes AGAIN and in much the same way as he did last week too) and Ramsay surprisingly let him off pretty easily and he went to “compose himself” for the next 30 minutes to FOUR HOURS or so. Must be nice! When he returned to his team, he said he wanted to quit. I thought, “Great! Let him go!” But the guys actually talked him into staying. SERIOUSLY. And he did. It didn’t make any sense.
The dinner went about as you’d expect. Aaron was selected to debone fish for the diners tableside and that was a nightmare. The man was about as efficient at deboning as he is at sucking it up and not whimpering all the damn time. He left many bones behind as well as cold fish since it took him forever. And yet, when the men predictably lose the evening and Rock is chosen as the “best of the worst”, he does NOT select Aaron to go in front of Ramsay. WHY?? Everyone seemed to be surprised by this, maybe Aaron was the most surprised. Even Ramsay looked surprised. So who was chosen? Josh and teeny Eddie. And who went home? Teeny Eddie. Whatever. This show so doesn’t make sense half the time.
Next week, one of the contestants may end up killing a diner. Excellent!
June 12th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
I watched this tonight (gotta love my TiVo!) and we couldn’t believe Aaron managed to stick around, either. I’d suspected Rock would put Josh up on the chopping block–he doesn’t seem to like him, for one thing (did you see the look on his face when Josh started talking? Priceless!), and Josh also seems like he’s probably the toughest competition among a really, really pitiful group of guys. But I was surprised he picked Eddie over Aaron–I think he expected Ramsay to choose Josh to go instead.
Between the fainting spells, the crying, and the SWEATING ALL OVER THE FOOD, Aaron is just a disaster. I can hardly wait to see what he pulls out of his hat next week.
(I still think this season’s off to a better start than last season was–I thought EVERYONE last year was terrible!)