Hell's Kitchen: Ramsay Sends Trevor & Jillian Home With Russell & Nona the Final Two

The current iteration of Hell's Kitchen has been the oddest I remember watching. Not one of the chefs really stood out as the competent ringer destined to make it to the end.

I don't remember seeing so many major cooking woes previous to this season of Hell's Kitchen.

I thought Jillian had it wrapped up to make it to the Final 2. Particularly after she won the fusion cooking challenge at the start of the episode.

It is rather telling, regarding how bad the chefs were, this time on Hell's Kitchen, that someone as incompetent as Trevor made it to the Final 4.

When Trevor became the first of the Final Four kicked out of Hell's Kitchen by Chef Ramsay, Gordon then proceeded to heap praise on Trevor. This made no sense to me, after what we'd just watched.

And then the first picked to be on of the Final 2 was Russell. In other seasons of Hell's Kitchen Russell would have been long gone. Or so it seems to me.

The biggest surprise of the night was Ramsay sending Jillian home, making it a Final 2 between Russell and Nona.

From the previews it appears that there will be a lot of yelling and swearing during the Finale. That's a surprise.

Hell's Kitchen Season 8: Episode 12: Gail Takes Her Jacket Off & Gets Out of Hell's Kitchen

This current iteration of Hell's Kitchen is being the oddest since this series started. In all previous seasons of HK there have been a few competent chefs.

On this season it's like the chef criteria that got you cast was the degree of potential entertainment value, not potential chef value.

How else do you explain casting a nutcase like Raj?

Or Trevor. Who has somehow managed to make it to the Final Four, along with Russell, Jillian and Nona.

Gail Novenario was a total basket case in this week's dinner service, which got her kicked out of the kitchen and then out of Hell's Kitchen. Gail had gotten off to such a good start on the episode, winning a challenge by making the most popular lunch cart special, which got her a makeover and new wardrobe. In the end, Gail seemed happier about the makeover than sad about getting the boot.

Paris Hilton and a group of Marines were among the people in Hell's Kitchen for whom Gail had trouble cooking.

Trevor really can not seem to cook anything correctly. And yet he is still there, spouting delusions and burning beef. Trevor was up for elimination, along with Gail. I thought Trevor would be the one to go, as he seems much worse than the terrible Gail.

Jillian had seemed fairly competent, til the most recent episode where we learned that, apparently, she had never cooked a fish product before, requiring Russell to come to the rescue over and over again.

And then there is Nona. She seems to have gotten more and more competent as the show has progressed.

But, of the 4 remaining, the only one who seems even remotely believable as possibly being able to run a kitchen like the one in that fancy LA Market place, is Russell. And he has not been without some doozy mistakes.

I'm thinking that maybe what is going to happen is Chef Ramsay decides none of them are worthy of winning.