Hell's Kitchen: Suzanne Finally Sent Home

Sometimes I can't quite tell why someone is so thoroughly disliked by their fellow reality show castmates. In the case of Suzanne, on Hell's Kitchen, I fully got how annoying she was. She had really worn out her welcome and really should have been gone sooner.

The latest episode started with the 5 remaining chefs being told they were to cook their most visually stunning dish. To be judged by fine diners from Bon Appetit, which is the world's most popular culinary magazine.

The Bon Appetit judges picked Ariel's John Dory and Kevin's sea bass as the best looking. Then Chef Ramsay and the magazine's Chief Editor, Barabara Fairchild did a taste test and decided both Ariel's and Kevin's good looking food were winners.

So, Kevin and Ariel got to join Chef Ramsay and Ms. Fairchild for a Bon Appetit photo shoot that featured their winning dishes. Meanwhile the losers, Dave, Tennile and Suzanne got bused off in orange jumpsuits for a day of community service picking up a street adopted by Hell's Kitchen.

Dave re-hurt his arm steam cleaning the red carpet at the Hell's Kitchen entry. But he recovered sufficiently to have appetizers flying out of the kitchen at the start of dinner service. Tennile and Suzanne quickly became problems. With Tennile's problem being bad risotto, which ended up being Kevin's problem, when it was discovered it was he who overcooked the rice.

As the 5 chefs move on to entrees Ariel sends out raw chicken while Suzanne sends out raw fish. Ramsay has a major fit, things seem to be going better. And then Ariel sends out some badly mangled lamb.

Ramsay does the usual rant about being disappointed, then sends the chefs to their dorm to pick 2 for elimination. The obvious picks being Ariel and Suzanne, with Suzanne finally going home after being up for elimination 4 times.

Tennile continues to be funny in her confessionals. I have gotten used to her yelling. Dave talks like he is stoned. It was pretty funny when he got as tongue tied as goofy Van, when Dave tried to describe his dish to the Bon Appetit people.

Too many regular season shows have started up, so Hell's Kitchen is not in the Top 20 of the Nielson Ratings this week.

Hell's Kitchen: Sweaty Tattooed Mad Van Leaves

I really should have my permit to operate a TV remote revoked. A couple days ago I blogged about what I thought was the latest episode of Hell's Kitchen.

When I went to the FOX Hell's Kitchen website, to check on a name, I saw that the re-cap, for what I thought was next week's Hell's Kitchen, was up and ready to be read.

I thought I had myself a real scoop, that this was a mistake, that the erroneous re-cap would soon be taken down.

What I did not know was that on Tuesday FOX ran back to back episodes of Hell's Kitchen, to make up for it being pre-empted the week before.

I learned of my error when I read a viewer express joy at getting both Sabrina and Van off her TV screen in one week.

It is nice to be rid of Van. In the episode that killed him, Van once again had trouble cooking seafood, despite hearing him brag over and over again that cooking seafood is his specialty.

In his final episode part of Van's expertise with seafood included dripping a lot of sweat on to the fish while it cooked. Van's head looked like it was going to explode when Ramsay told him to come to him so Ramsay could yell at Van's sweaty face.

What caused that boy to sweat so much this episode? None of the others seemed to suffer that problem. I thought there was something way off about Van from the day we met him. His odd haircut, the tattoos, the Boomhauer garbled way of talking, the temper, the stammering when trying to describe what he'd cooked. And then in his last episode the innocent viewers were subjected to the sight of Van shirtless. I had to hit the pause button and try and figure out what the big tattoo across his chest spelled. I gave up.

Van cooks in a restaurant in Dallas. I need to find out which one and make sure I don't accidentally go there.

Tennile was the star, along with one-armed Dave, this episode. Tennile's shouted confessionals are both amusing and annoying. Suzanne needs to go next. She seems way in over her head.