Who Gets the Big Stove?

By Caroline Clough in Arts & Entertainment on Jan 31, 2007 7:53PM

As we may have mentioned, this Chicagoist is without cable television. Don't cry for us, we're strong. The thing about this lack of cable is that it doesn't stop us from enjoying certain cable-only programming. Back in the day we always found a way to watch "Six Feet Under," and more recently we've found ourselves mystified and hypnotized by both seasons of "Top Chef." Admittedly, we watch these episodes in whatever order we can and often with month-long gaps. The last time we watched was two months ago, and we were pretty fed up with the martyrs (Mia and Otto) and even more disgusted with the pompous Marcel. We know that many found Sam dreamy, but we, personally, were not all that moved by his looks (his cooking and attitude weren't bad). Nonetheless it was sad to hear that Sam hadn't made it to the final round of Top Chef and that Marcel had! We're almost happy that we can't watch the finale tonight ... all that arrogance and over-the-top hair. Sam may have been kicked off the show, but he hasn't been kicked off the planet. In fact you could hear a live interview with him on Fearless radio, tomorrow at one. We'll be interested to hear what he thinks of the whole leak controversy. The Food & Wine debacle probably wasn't done on purpose, and we're not sure we buy the whole "we made two bios so we'd be ready either way" logic. But what do we know, we don't even have cable television.

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