Last night the Top Chef final four continued their culinary battling in beautiful Puerto Rico. Hogs were slaughtered (sad!). Padma looked resplendent. Gail’s hair was distractingly gorgeous. And then the unthinkable happened…
Well, first Stephanie, Richard and Antonia basically expressed what we’re all thinking: what is Lisa still doing on the show? Is she secretly a genius, and the Magical Elves editors have hidden her amazing skills? Are the producers keeping her around to cause trouble with her infamous bad attitude? No one knows!
Let’s fast-forward a bit: Puerto Rico, Lisa cut her hair (cute!), plantains, bald chefs, market shopping, Malta soft drinks, the butchering of entire hogs, Stephanie recovering after Dale leaves the pork out all night, a fancy dinner party/competition and then...
…undercooked beans?!
Antonia undercooked her beans. So she and Lisa (everyone saw that coming) were in the bottom two.
And then..whaaa? Whaaaa? How? Wherefore? The judges sent Antonia home!
Of course, earlier in the show when Antonia told the cameras, “My daughter said ‘don’t come home unless you win,’” we thought “nooooooo.” Don’t do it, Bravo. Don’t set her up like that, and then make her fall. You couldn’t be that cruel, could you Top Chef Chicago film editors?
Yes. Yes they could. And they are. Cruel, heartless, incomprehensible bastards.
And then, after Antonia gracefully exits, Lisa goes back to find an exhausted and saddened Stephanie and Richard sitting on those little metal folding chairs the show always has them sit on. (Yet another form of torture.) Stephanie and Richard are obviously upset that their friend Antonia left. And Lisa then pissily accuses them of not congratulating her for…coming in third?
Well, it will be interesting season finale. Who do we think will win: Stephanie, Richard, or…yeah, just those two?
Here are Antonia’s exit interviews: