Usually starts right after Memorial Day. But FOX is obviously out of new programming from the strike so they must have decided to run it ASAP.

Don't freak out yet, only 2 episodes have aired. You can catch up on:

www.hulu.com

That is a good thing. She seem like a bitch.

The weakest girl obviously got thrown off ... but what is the point of the nom then (other than conflict)?

It gives Gordon a look at their management perspective. How did they see who performed to what standards.

I used to like this show but caught up on all of the Top Chef episodes (I'd never seen the show) over the last year. Now comparing the contestants makes HK such a joke of a show. Its real chefs with a love and knowledge of food versus typical reality TV, conflict causing, drama fodder. There is no way Ramsey makes one of those clowns his real executive chef, not if he wants to keep even a speck of respect in the food world. He must be getting paid a bundle to even give one of these people a figurehead title.

You know there is SOME true to that, but the fact is that the contestants on Hell's Kitchen are very much like what Ramsey was like himself when he started his career and worked his way up from line cook, to one of the top chefs in the world.

Yeah, that was a slight disappointment for us, as HK became a traditional summertime treat in our house the past two summers.

Silly, but we so looked forward to it in the warm weather.......