“Brandon, you are not ready to be my head chef.”

Oh my God, did Chef Ramsay really just say that!?  I’ve watched a lot of episodes of Hell’s Kitchen but I don’t think any elimination has taken me as much by surprise as the elimination of Brandon this week.  Brandon is who I expected to win this season and I know that I’m not alone in that.  That said, Brandon did struggle at service.  Of all the chefs to receive black jackets, Brandon struggled the most and, even more importantly, Brandon was really the only one to struggle.  Ramsay didn’t have much of a choice but I have a feeling Brandon will return in a future season.

Speaking of Chef Ramsay, I also caught the second part of the Kitchen Nightmares premiere.  I’m glad that Ramsay apparently thinks that he’s fixed that restaurant but I can promise that there is no way I would ever voluntarily eat at any establishment featured on this show.  I don’t care if it’s clean now.  Once a rat trap, always a rat trap.

This week’s episode of Abbott Elementary surfaced in comparison to last week’s but that’s to be expected considering the brilliance of last week’s show.  I still laughed at Ava trying to figure out what it’s like to “date the poors.”

On Peacock, I watched the three episode documentary Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story and yes, that was certainly disgusting and disturbing,  It was even worse than Hulu’s Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, which I also watched.  I guess I felt like catching up on some sordid history this week!

Speaking of sordid, Who Wants To Marry A Multi-Millionaire is on YouTube.  I watched it and I have to admit that I laughed when the “millionaire” came lurching out and started speaking in a voice that sounded exactly like Bill Hader’s.  Who Wants To Marry A Multi-Millionaire was a one-time, two-hour special that aired in 2000.  The man behind this fiasco (the marriage was annulled, the millionaire was not a millionaire but just a guy who was the subject of multiple restraining orders) went on to create The Bachelor.

Also on YouTube, I found all six episodes of The Starlet, a reality competition show where aspiring actresses competed for a walk-on role on One Tree Hill.  Stop laughing, it was a real show.  I vaguely remember watching it when it first aired.  I watched it a second time on Monday because I was bored.  One of the judges was Faye Dunaway.  Faye was surprisingly nice.  The mean judge was Vivica A. Fox.

Case and I are continuing to watch Dark, on Netflix.  What a fascinating and macabre show!  I recommend it to anyone reading.

I watched the latest episodes of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test but I don’t remember a damn thing about them, other than it amused me how everyone pretended to be taking everything so seriously.

And, as always, I watched the shows that I review on a weekly basis.  I’m not going to sit here and list them all because I’m tired.  But you can find all my reviews on this site.  Yay!