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  • Hell's Kitchen: season 6, episode 14

    Finale

    October 13, 2009 - 09:10p.m.

    If we're being honest, we have to admit that we don't watch Hell's Kitchen to see who wins.  Well, we don't watch any reality competition to see who wins.  The producers wrap things up as quickly ...

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  • Hell's Kitchen: season 6, episode 13

    “4 Chefs Compete”

    October 6, 2009 - 09:10p.m.

    Watching Dave talk to himself in the mirror at the outset of tonight’s Hell’s Kitchen episode transported me all the way back to Season One, when the scraggly Michael wandered the HK courtyard at night, psyching himself up ...

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  • Hell's Kitchen: season 6, episode 12

    5 Chefs Compete

    September 29, 2009 - 11:09p.m.

    RAW!

    No, tonight didn’t test the chefs’ skills with a chic raw-food menu. The chefs did it unwittingly on their own: raw fish, raw chicken, raw, raw, “RAW!” Tonight’s dinner service presented another opportunity for my favorite Ramsay-ism ...

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  • Hell's Kitchen: season 6, episode 10 & 11

    7 Chefs Compete; 6 Chefs Compete

    September 22, 2009 - 09:09p.m.

    psst -- kale!

    Two big hours of Ramsay and the donkeys tonight, courtesy of last week's cancellation, and I think we all need a new way to conceptualize the rapidly diminishing cast of HK.  And given how quickly we're coming down ...

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  • Hell's Kitchen: season 6, episode 9

    "8 Chefs Compete"

    September 8, 2009 - 10:09p.m.

    Hell’s Kitchen is all about the pile-up. Every week, each team turns on one person like a prison gang picking a bitch, then takes turns pissing in the bitch’s ocular cavities (figuratively). Last week’s episode set the ...

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  • Hell's Kitchen: season 6, episode 8

    9 Chefs Compete

    September 1, 2009 - 08:09p.m.

    you've given up, haven't you?

    Last week Robert got kicked off of Hell's Kitchen -- for the second time.  That's a distinction that I'm sure will take him far in the restaurant world.  As far as who will go home tonight, the director ...

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  • Hell's Kitchen: season 6, episode 7

    “10 Chefs Compete”

    August 25, 2009 - 09:08p.m.

    Hey, I thought Top Chef was the Vegas-themed cooking competition this season! And yet here’s a makeshift craps table in the dining room at the start of this week’s Hell’s Kitchen, and a pair of custom-made oversized ...

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  • Hell's Kitchen: season 6, episode 6

    “11 Chefs Compete”

    August 18, 2009 - 09:08p.m.

    Greetings, donkeys! It’s my turn up in our HK three-person rotation. And I’ll be honest: Even though I enjoy the heck out of this show, sometimes I’m not so sure why I keep watching. Out of all ...

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  • Hell's Kitchen: season 6, episode 5

    12 Chefs Compete

    August 11, 2009 - 08:08p.m.

    bye tek

    I'll be your designated Hell's Kitchen fan this week, and let me start right off by saying that I'm an admirer of Gordon Ramsay.  Aside from his embarrassing habit of baring his torso on television, Ramsay's ...

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  • Hell's Kitchen: season 6, episode 4

    13 Chefs Compete

    August 4, 2009 - 10:08p.m.

    DONKEY!

    You asked for it, you got it: TV Club for television’s swearingest, trashiest, Britishest cooking show, Hell’s Kitchen! The program, one of three dozen on TV starring celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, mixes the bottom rungs of the ...

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