Everyone’s getting old(er) - aren’t you?
He’s definitely gotten gray. I wouldn’t have recognized him if they hadn’t zoomed in on his face.
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I don’t know how I felt about this episode.
Anyone else think “ok he’s gone” when Henry was shopping at WF talking about pho pizza? Even if he had a crust, I doubt the outcome would have been different.
I am surprised no one did a ramen crust — after they showed a sushi crust. I mean, there are ramen burgers.
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Not at all 
I don’t care what AARP may think when they send their membership offers.
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They’re working from faulty data, obviously 
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Warning; Paywall ahead and I’ve reached my reading limit!
“I gotta say, I’ve seen chatter about Massimo’s getting a “villain edit,” and I … don’t think so? If anything, he’s the personality hire that’s been keeping Top Chef’s producers fed and happy all season” 
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I thought he looked exactly the same, just with gray hair. (I type this as a now very gray former brunette.)
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I agree with that comment. I don’t find Massimo portrayed as a villain either, just over the top and perhaps a tad annoying. But so far, I haven’t seen him try to sabotage (eg, Spike and his take all the bread move, and his constant feuding) and trying to pick fights with his fellow chef-testants. And it helps that he has cooked some really good food (I would have loved his dessert).
But boy, last night I was bawling my eyes out. I felt so bad for Tristan. 
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Agreed!
Dude! Blur the spoilers!
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Assumptions, assumptions… Watch the episode is all I’ll say.
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That’s the whole point though — when you mention names without blurring, it creates unnecessary assumptions
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I think I asked this earlier in this thread: How do you blur the text? Not that I’d need to–the old Chowhound threads taught me the “no spoilers” rule well.
Thanks! I would never have thought to look there.
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The two culinary PAs who met, fell in love, and got engaged while working on various seasons of TC is sweet.
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But it’s not spoiling anything though because it’s not saying anything about what happened or what the circumstances are. They do not know what the context is until they watch the show. Spoiler tags were meant to not reveal what is happening so that people could discuss them.
TV shows for years have been using the “on the next episode of…” for decades with all these cuts that suggested a twist or something stressful was coming. This potential anxiety was because of assumptions on what was about to happen is what the studios believed compelled people to tune in.
Just adding that Top Chef still does this with their previews at the end of each episode that is trying to make you assume you what will be happening to the cheftestants next week.
Not for you
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Because I already know… 
“Up to this point on the show, as a viewer, we’ve just seen the Toronto episodes. Is there anything you can tease about what we’re going to see of the rest of Canada?”
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Restaurant war is always my favorite episode. And this was a really good one, but I also felt so bad for Tristan. And everyone else did too cause they’re all crying at the end.
