MasterChef Season 5 Episode 2 Recap and Review: June 2, 2014
June 3, 2014 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By sockii
Last week we had our first chance to meet the Season 5 contestants, and watch as the Top 30 became in fact the Top 22. Those home cooks lucky enough to receive their aprons now are facing their very first…
MasterChef US Season 4: Where are they now?
May 31, 2014 | Posted in REALITY TV | By sockii
With the start of a new season of MasterChef airing in the United States, I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at least year’s group of contestants and find out: where are they now? Are they still pursuing a career/work in the food industry somehow, or have they gone back to their other “day jobs”?
Who will win MasterChef Season 5?
May 29, 2014 | Posted in REALITY TV | By sockii
Although only the first episode of MasterChef Season 5 has aired, I’m willing to go out on a limb and make my prediction for this year’s winner. I don’t have any “inside information” or access to spoilers, but based on…
MasterChef Season 5 Episode 1 Recap and Review: May 26, 2014
May 28, 2014 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By sockii
It’s that time again…MasterChef time! Season 5 has just begun, and once more I will be doing episode recaps so you can follow the action at home—and chime in with your thoughts and opinions on each episode…
Is MasterChef US Ageist?
April 23, 2014 | Posted in REALITY TV | By sockii
MasterChef is a televised cooking competition series which is popular around the world, and in 2014 will be airing for its fifth season in the United States. The show bills itself as a competition to find “the best home cooks in America” through casting calls held around the country…
The Taste versus MasterChef: Comparing the two cooking competitions
January 30, 2014 | Posted in REALITY TV | By sockii
I’ve been catching up on this season of ABC’s cooking-themed reality series The Taste, which began airing at the beginning of January 2014. I didn’t watch the first season—I guess because I missed when it was airing as I don’t
Bravo’s Top Chef: How I Would Fix It
December 18, 2013 | Posted in REALITY TV | By sockii
Has Top Chef Jumped the Shark? 5 things I’d change about the increasingly tired Bravo cooking competition I’ve been an on-again/off-again viewer of Bravo TV’s Top Chef since the beginning of the “reality” series, now some eleven seasons ago (not
Who will win “Restaurant Express”?
December 11, 2013 | Posted in REALITY TV | By sockii
Food Network’s Latest Robert Irvine Vehicle Heads To The Finale Restaurant Express is one of the newest “reality”/cooking competition shows on the Food Network this Fall 2013. The show is hosted by Robert Irvine, who has previously been featured on
MasterChef Junior: November 8 Episode Recap & Review
November 9, 2013 | Posted in REALITY TV | By sockii
Who will win the title of the first-ever MasterChef Junior? This is it – the finale of the first-ever MasterChef Junior! Of the original 24 young contestants we met in the very first episode, only two remain: Dara and Alexander.
My Cooking Skills Have Improved Thanks to This 1 Tip From Hell’s Kitchen
November 9, 2013 | Posted in REALITY TV | By MyDVDCollection
I am not someone who believes in everything he sees on TV (or online). I am fully aware that the producers of a TV series carefully select what they want you to see, etc… so this is why I was
