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The Biggest Loser: This Week It's Top Chef
Commentary by RTVC Staff Writer Kathleen
March 17, 2010
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Last week on The Biggest Loser, we got to watch an episode of Survivor! This week it was Top Chef.
I will grant you that it’s always a nice interlude to have Curtis Stone on the screen for my viewing pleasure, but the only thing missing from tonight’s Quickfire Challenge was Padma.
The whole episode was centered on food choices. And, as food choice episodes go this one was better than some. Clearly most of the contestants did better at guessing when they went second and only had to guess 1 out of 2. If there had been more questions, I’ll bet someone would have figured it out and started being more slow to hit the buzzer. You are jaded, Kathleen. Shame on you.
I find it odd that the teams get so amazingly excited about prizes that involve pampering or partying. I still remember in Tara’s season where they went to Vegas or somewhere and went out to eat and drink and proved that they had learned LESS THAN NOTHING from their time on the ranch.
This time I guess the Chef’s Table at the Four Seasons was feeding them a set menu rather than letting them choose. It did prove that beautiful fancy food can still be healthy. I would, however, liked to have heard some honest remarks from Lance and Michael and perhaps O’Neal about an entrée consisting of one bite of fish and a drizzle.
Sure, it’s how a healthy person SHOULD eat, but it clearly isn’t how these guys have been eating for years and years. A tough shift worthy of an interview.
And the loser prize. Give me a break. Don’t these guys cook for themselves? Do they use the kitchen only in total darkness? No one ever noticed that it was a pit? Fake. I call Fake.
If that kitchen had looked like that for even 24 hours, any 24 hours, the Health Department would have shut down production. Period. And for little Drea to be complaining about the smell from the sink? Double fake. Sinks don’t stink overnight. Unless the entire Black team has eaten solely at Subway (product placement) for a week, FAKE.
This whole loser prize was lifted directly from Hells Kitchen. (Thanks for not making us listen to Gordon Ramsay.)
I guess we traded crossover promotions for our usual product placements.
We got our first placement (for the BL book) at 4 minutes in. (Thank you DVR for telling me where we are on the counter.) When the second placement showed up at 9 minutes, I started keeping track.
But, lo and behold, there were almost no blatant placements this week. Most were slid into Trainer Tips, where one would expect them, so they really don’t count. And when Sunshine and O’Neal were captured unwrapping their Subways and no one said a word … I almost fell off my chair.
What we did get this week was straight up foreshadowing. Yeah, last week they blindsided me by foreshadowing Sunshine and O’Neal only to send home Cheryl. This week it was so very obvious. Black was going to lose in spite of it all and Sherry was going home. Duh. We could have watched the show backward it was so telegraphed from the beginning.
I guess what’s bugging me at this point … I’m bored. I am totally bored with the whole shebang.
There are no villains. The cousins are lovable. Daris is sweet. Sunhine and O’Neal are sweet enough to cause cavities. Mike has turned into a real guy even if he might be annoying to have around 24x7. Lance is nice now that his pit bull has gone home. The random girls are all trying so hard.
Remember when I fussed about the over the top gamesmanship? Remember when I fussed about the potential water loading? Shoot me. Please.
This crew could be people I know from the YMCA.
“Hi, how’s it going?” “Good for you.” “Keep it up.”
I will grant you that the amount of sweat that flies and drips off these people in the gym is not something that happens at my local Y. But, if you hit a personal milestone at the Y the best you will get is your name on the wall and perhaps an atta-girl from a trainer. No one who looks like Allie is going to hand you a giant check while confetti falls from the ceiling.
I don’t know how I’d like them to make it different.
Well, actually, I do. This business of the last few seasons where they have hunted down people who are more and more huge. Stop.
What we have right now is all the applause is centered on Michael who went from 500-something to 300-something. And the applause is well deserved. But …
The flip side is “oh, he/she is under 200 and hasn’t that much more to go”. That is an ignoring of the smaller people whose health concerns are just as valid. Disrespectful, actually.
Some of the contestants ruined their lives with supersized fast food.
Biggest Loser is ruining its premise with supersized contestants.
I rest my case.
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Kathleen lives in the forest in Colorado where she is pursuing a second career as an artist. Having turned on the TV for companionship she has developed a very happy addiction to a selected number of reality shows. Highly opinionated, she welcomes your input. She can be reached at: Kathleen@RealityTVCalendar.com.
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