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Top Chef Rant of the Night

Warning: Spoilers, Spoilers, and More Spoilers

Well, it was Restaurant Wars tonight, and as usual, I'm infuriated.

The show finally thought of doing away with having the teams be responsible for the decor, but they still had one of the chefs do front of house. What doing front of house has to do with being a chef is beyond me.

It seems like even they're aware of how it's become the death card, but they still make someone do it.

Okay, here's the spoiler:

Laurine got sent home.

I know, not much of a spoiler.

She's so blase it's amazing she's made it this far. Robin is more annoying and less talented, but at least she fights to stay in the game. Laurine has dropped such gems as "I guess I forgot about the competition."

WHAT?

Still, I didn't think she deserved to get kicked off. Her team's loss was completely Jen's fault.

First, Jen didn't think to split up the Voltaggios. Why on earth would you let the Voltaggios team up against you in any scenario? That was mistake one.

Mistake two was deciding to do that many entrees on a menu. There was nothing interesting about their line-up. It was too heavy-handed.

Then Jen completely fell apart in the kitchen.

Oh wait, she does that every episode.

Sometimes it results in great food, but it never stops being incredibly frustrating to watch. She's an embarrassment to women in the kitchen. She's like the cliche of what chauvinists would imagine a woman chef is like, and it's awful.

So many times during tonight's episode I screamed at her--"PULL IT TOGETHER!" I don't care who she studies under, she should have been kicked off tonight.

They say with each round that they don't take into consideration past challenges, until times like these when clearly Laurine had to go simply because Jen's better television.

I don't think Laurine necessarily deserved to stay on, but they should do away with having someone do front of house. It has nothing to do with the food.

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