Hell’s Kitchen Recap: Final Four

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By BlueCanary | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 | 10:38 am | 14 Comments
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He makes her taste it again before it goes out, and she makes Justin bring up more. The rest goes off without a hitch, and Barbie is up.

Gordon tells her to drive the service her way, and Barbie is off. But she’s yelling toward the dining room, and no one in the kitchen can hear her. Once that gets sorted out, there’re more issues with Dana and Justin communicating with each other, and she has to pull them off their stations and ream them. I love how Gordon is nodding along in the background. Scott brings up some ringer for the potatoes, and Barbie catches it immediately.

You can’t sneak celeria past this girl.

Christina’s up last, and things seem to be going well. Dana is actually speaking, but Gordon doesn’t like their buddy-buddy talk, and then Dana burns the cod. Gordon tells Christina she has to run the brigade, not let them run her. And then Dana undercooks the cod. And things just fall apart from there. The friendship is dying before our eyes, people! She finally gets the cod out, and Gordon swaps the spinach for arugula. That doesn’t fly, and you can see the pride waft off Gordon when Christina screams “Is that fucking arugula?!?”

Yes, that is fucking arugula. Nice catch!

Once service is complete, Gordon lines them up and tells them to get their asses upstairs and yell it out to decide who deserves to stay or go. Dana says no one stood out as bad, even though she herself fucked up the fish station, didn’t communicate, and missed her quality control test. The rest of them gently tell Dana all the ways in which she screwed up.

They line up in front of Gordon, and he informs them that he needs to hear why everyone should stay. The usual passion, motivation, growth, and dedication speeches commence, and Justin throws in some choice words about leadership. Christina makes herself a nice nest in Gordon’s ass, but no one actually nominates anyone else for departure. And then Gordon tells them that two will be leaving that night—the next challenge is the final challenge.

Who will stay and who will go?

So it’s down to this. And Barbie’s out. BOO!! FUCKING BOO, GORDON. I was rooting for her to go all the way. Gordon has plenty of nice things to say, and she’s gone. We get a couple of white trash Tiffany flashbacks, and I’m happy to say Barbie isn’t crying or screaming about injustice—she’s just positive and happy for the experience. Love her, love her faces.

I’ll miss you, Barbie! Best of luck!

Gordon is having a tough time with the remaining three, and says he can see all of them in the final. But one must go, and that person is:

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14 Comments

  1. 1
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 11:16 am

    I’m sad that our tagteaming of Gordon is almost over. :(

    I will just be angry if Dana ends up in the finale. I don’t know if my ears can handle her anymore.

  2. 2
    Mummy Butterfly
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 11:46 am

    Am I the only one that thought all the “stonewalling” was a bunch of edited horsepoop? Dana just seems like she would have gotten MUCH more upset if everyone REALLY wasn’t speaking to her. (I mean, no one expects Barbie to speak to her… But Christina…of course.)

    I will be peachy-pissed-off if it’s not Justin/Christina in the finale, and I’m HOPING they bring Barbie back for the finale to cook. Whoever gets her in their kitchen is SMART. I think she would work hard for Justin or Christina, and based on her attitude as she left, that just shows me she would have been an awesome boss to work under.

    I really think they held on to Dana through the “to be continued” to try and stretch out the drama, but for ME I would have felt much more emotionally invested if the final 3 were Justin/Christina/Barbie. Dana just makes me cringe.

  3. 3
    featherhead
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 1:13 pm

    I thought it was funny as hell when Barbie was up to the pass and she started yelling out the orders to the diners instead of to the Brigade. Boy Zorro has been quiet lately, it’s been kinda nice!

  4. 4
    Leto
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    I’ll miss Barbie next episode, I would have soooo loved a Christina/barbie Finale.
    And Justin is worse than a little girl when he gets punishments. Yes, garbage stinks, go get a mask. Yes, ironing is boring, get over it. He annoys me more than Dana, but she’s the only one who didn’t spot the sabotage, she shouldn’t be in the finale.

    Just one episode to go, I’ll miss you guys :(

  5. 5
    Sharon
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 4:46 pm

    I want a Dana/Christina finale. Just because it would force some drama. But, when I saw the crazy crack heads walking off that plane at the end of Mondays episode, I knew Hell’s Kitchen would not let me down and I will get my drama fix on the finale.

    Reality Wanted does exit interviews with all the contestants that are posted the day after they are eliminated.
    One of the questions they are all asked is, “Where are you cooking now?” Every chef has told where they are cooking now EXCEPT for…

    TIFFANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She answered that question saying that she “couldn’t say” where she is working and cooking now. What!!???!!!???????
    I guess it is because if you are at a rehab, halfway house, or prison they really don’t want you telling anyone you are cooking to pay your room and board.

  6. 6
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 6:07 pm

    ^ Maybe she couldn’t say because she isn’t cooking anywhere at the moment.
    Who would keep her nasty ass after seeing the stuff she was doing in Hell’s Kitchen? If she could re-use filthy pans and lick the knives for the wellingtons in front of Gordon Ramsay and a whole host of cameras, who knows what she would do in a regular kitchen when no one is watching her?
    Or maybe she really is in jail or a halfway house or rehab LOL.

    I never saw Barbie getting to the finale, especially after that last service with Clemenza, but I’m bummed that she didn’t at least finish ahead of Dana.
    Ahh I hate Dana.

  7. 7
    VunterSlaush VunterSlaush
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 6:21 pm

    I may have a reason why Dana yells during all of her THs.

    If she gets eliminated, her backup plan is to be the next Samuel Jackson beer spokesperson.

  8. 8
    Sharon
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 6:42 pm

    @chaos butterfly
    Tiffany said she is cooking some place in Vermont. And, she says she has been ther for 3+ years. But, I guess the owner is of the same mindset as you and I… “You can work here, but, don’t tell anyone! Tee hee!!!!”

  9. 9
    sagittariuskim sagittariuskim
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 11:37 pm

    I guess I’m rooting for Christina now. Out of the other two I really don’t care who makes it. Justin annoys me as much as Dana now.

  10. 10
    Pikey578
    Posted August 30, 2012 at 1:06 am

    I am so sad that Dana outlasted Barbie! I would have loved to see Barbie go further. Her classy exit spoke volumes about her. I found out that Barbie’s been through a hell of a lot. She lost her father at 14, taught herself to cook to help out the family and worked banquet serving on the side. She’s a widow – her husband, who had come back from Iraq, was shot and killed in front of their kids. So she has those 2 kids with her husband PLUS his 2 kids from a previous relationship, and she is raising them on the farm with her partner. As I said, she is a class act who has gone through a lot in her life. I would have loved to have seen her get a break… Now I really don’t care who wins (so long as it isn’t Dana).

  11. 11
    nashuaf
    Posted August 30, 2012 at 6:25 am

    When they do the “how expensive” challenge, I wish the judges wrote down their prices and then shared them. When the first says “$30″, might the next one think “well I only thought $24 but I don’t want to look like a dick” and says “$28.50″?

    Besides, pricing is a bit of a crapshoot. It’s not like there’s some official pricing guide they all follow.

  12. 12
    timgunnssister timgunnssister
    Posted August 30, 2012 at 9:57 am

    I’m so sad now. I loathe Dana and am not on Team Justin.

    Christina is okay but the most consistent chef, to me, is Barbie. And if IRC, Ramsey DID ask them to pick someone to be up for leaving and they pretty clearly all picked Dana. So, either he didn’t ask them, he didn’t care or the final 2 was decided on the first day of shooting.

    I’m going with the last guess.

    I miss Barbie and her faces!

  13. 13
    Josh Darius
    Posted September 1, 2012 at 9:49 pm

    Leto, may we drink blood wine together, this season is the worst!

  14. 14
    Sunshine
    Posted September 6, 2012 at 12:34 pm

    Barbie’s faces were some of the best thing on the show this season.

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