{"id":1391,"date":"2007-10-03T15:06:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T20:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2007-10-03T11:43:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T16:43:47","slug":"the-toppier-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1391","title":{"rendered":"Tonight’s Marinade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Predicting Casey and Hung in the Top Three has been pretty much a given for the past few weeks, especially since Howie and Sara bit the dust.\u00a0 Dale beating Brian into the final round was only a slight surprise, when you remember the formula for all of these Bravo “reality” shows; the final three must contain:<\/p>\n

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  1. A hypertalented jerk; AKA “the Santino\/Marcel role”<\/li>\n
  2. A hot babe (afficionados call this “The Chloe position”)<\/li>\n
  3. A loveable, often gay, guy (AKA “The Vosovic”)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Dale and Brian could both cover the three slot, and Dale is funnier.\u00a0 So picking the final three was no great shakes.<\/p>\n

    But who’s gonna win?<\/p>\n

    I’m not so much concerned about the actual food they do <\/em>on the grand finale tonight, as I am trying to parse the various clues the producers (who are, in the end, the only “judges” that matter on the show) have dropped.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Am I nuts, or have the producers been showing Hung to be much more…fallible<\/em> than he used to seem, lately?\u00a0 About the same time Casey moved from perpetually-on-the-bubble to constant contender, about five weeks back?<\/p>\n

    Prediction:\u00a0 tossup between Casey and a late dark-horse surge by Dale, either of whom would make a much more telegenic personality for the show’s next few seasons than the almost-Teutonically-perfect cooking machine Hung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Predicting Casey and Hung in the Top Three has been pretty much a given for the past few weeks, especially since Howie and Sara bit the dust.\u00a0 Dale beating Brian into the final round was only a slight surprise, when you remember the formula for all of these Bravo “reality” shows; the final three must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}