Top Chef Kinda Bland
Top Chef Kinda Bland—Among Other Things by Roxanne McDonald
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And besides being virtually free of that tension we so love to watch, “Top Chef” is also getting whack with inconsistent airing practices. |
Unless I am losing my mind along with my ability to keep tight reins on my very full TV-watching schedule, another
show or station gets coo-coo with the changing it up of regularly scheduled episodes.
I’m gonna sound like somebody’s worn out mother here, for a sec, but if I have said it once, I have said it a hundred times: quit fooling with the schedule! Not only do we viewers with ADD get all thrown off, but those of us with pre-set schedules have no time for this nonsense and are equally disheartened when we sit through re-runs and suddenly MISS a new installment.
Okay, so I succumb to that which is/are holiday changes, seasonal changes, promotional/stalling strategies that include running a reunion before the season even ends changes, and save the show in spite of competing, pre-empting programming changes.
But what the…? What can I do, how can I recover, when the new episode is not aired when none of the above are interfering? “Top Chef” does this previouslys thing on Bravo at 3, 4, 5, and 6 p.m. Then it has a new episode at 7 p.m. and again at 10 p.m. on the same night [Wednesdays in California].
Last night, I had to watch “Last Comic Standing” finale, and knowing that would run late, re-scheduled myself to watch the new “Top Chef” episode at ten instead of seven. But at ten when I tuned in to Bravo, I saw them on a plane, Hung not helping, CJ getting slammed for the worst broccoli side dish the judges had ever had in all four seasons, and Brian, once again, getting poor marks for his lobster. Why he insists on sabotaging himself with that lobster choice so often made me realize that, hey, duh, this is last week’s episode! [Well, okay, I caught that fact as soon as Padma showed up at the loft in her PJs….]
Today, as I read so I can laugh the recaps over at Fans of Reality TV, I find myself once again having to bitch about the programming bullshit.
So while this season of “Top Chef” hasn’t exactly been
MUST-see stuff, the season is at the place where you really don’t want to give up your self-imposed title of reality TV fanatic who logs more TV time than anyone in your inner and outer circles by missing a final episode.
I missed some more okay but necessary stuff. I missed the cheftestants in New York; the classic cuisine themed Le Cirque Quickfire; the famous Chef Sirio drooling over Casey…, or, er, Hung’s winning dish. I missed their visit to the French Culinary Institute; the requisite ingredients of little more than Country Chic chicken, potatoes, and onion; Hung getting the winning title this week; Dale threatened with elimination for, again, his tendentious need to do more than one of whatever; and Sara getting the boot.
I’m thinking it’s time to change my routine. Or finally hook up that TiVo my friends bought me some two years back. Tuh. What kind of number-one reality TV obsessive am I, anyway?
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