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Why do we watch Hell’s Kitchen? Is it to see Chef Ramsey have a fiery meltdown, or to see the contestants falling apart right there in the kitchen? I think you get enough of both to be satisfied, and tonight’s season premiere was everything anyone could have wanted. The men’s team was pretty sad, especially poor pathetic Aaron, but at least they put some food out before the customers started walking out. The women’s team made a pledge not to backstab each other, and then promptly brought service to a standstill by shouting each other down and elbowing each other aside. Anyway, the nature of the game forces players to stab their own teammates in the back; it’s simply in the rules that the best performer on the losing team has to nominated two members of that team for elimination.

It was pretty courageous of Melissa to go against the group and nominate the worst offenders, when everyone on her team wanted her to nominate Julia for dismissal. And it wasn’t even because Julia had done anything wrong in the kitchen; she was, after all, the only one who succeeded in cooking quail eggs, after two hours of failure by everyone else. No, the other women wanted Julia out because she came into the competition as a short order cook in a waffle house. It was beneath them, apparently, to work with such a lowly personage. In the end, even Tiffany, who ended up being eliminated, admitted it was the right decision, because her heart wasn’t in it. It’ll be fun to see over the next few weeks who else gets their heart broken by this funny, wicked game.

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