The theme this week is dessert. How can the eight remaining cooks screw this up? All you have to do is fill a spoon with frosting, toss on a few rainbow sprinkles, and you’re golden. The Team Challenge will be judged by pastry chef Christina Tosi, creator of Milk Bar’s Crack Pie, and the winning team will have her invaluable mentorship to the winning team. And since Nigella has precisely zero cooks left on her team, she’s going free range and wandering the kitchens. Continue reading
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The Top Chef finale starts out like all Top Chef finales do—with Padma frolicking in ocean, wearing the itsy bitsiest of string bikinis. She barely even bothered to dry herself off to inroduce the challenge, which is to cook a four course meal. Continue reading
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Episode 7: “Move Out Or Move On”
The ladies flip through hundreds of photos of themselves, like a giant mirrored funhouse. Then they get a call from Self Magazine (do people still read those things?) about leading a challenge to drop ten pounds. And, they’re doing the 2013 spring campaign for Oakley, which…do you have a time machine? Because I don’t have a time machine. Continue reading
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by Things are still a bit tense between Anna and Bates. He’s a brooder, and brooders brood. And finances are still a bit dodgy with the great estates, so Downton decides to raise pigs. Ooh, how glamorous! Continue reading
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Since the Super Bowl is on Sunday night and there is a lot, and I mean a lot, of overlap between people who watch sports and people who watch “Girls,” the television Gods decided to air a new episode of “Girls” on Saturday to avoid an inevitable plunge in viewership deeper than a starlet’s neckline at the Oscars. Continue reading
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Today’s challenge is a vegetarian challenge, which does not sit well with Team Bourdain. But he will solider on, broccoli and all. Continue reading
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On this week’s Under the Gunn Zanna Roberts Rassi explains the very simplistic challenge: create a Hollywood-inspired red carpet look. Blah. Boooring. Where’s the challenge in that? Well, they only have one day to work on it, so maybe that’ll keep things interesting. Continue reading
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Episode 5: “Two’s Company but Three’s a Crowd”
The girls are filming on the beach, and it’s a very professional operation. There’s lots of lipstick, and Karena’s foundation for her one-on-one interviews is totally the wrong color because it’s impossible to replicate the orange glow of tanning cream. Also, when Karena’s under stress, she makes cat noises. Which is weird, because when my cat is under stress, she makes Karena noises. And she wonders why she’s single…. Continue reading
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On this week’s Teen Wolf, Isaac is afraid to go full wolfy because he is afraid of people with black masks, like a firefly. They flittered away because they weren’t after Isaac. No, they were after Chris Argent aka Allison’s dad. Continue reading
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