Maverick

I find the Khana crew distasteful. No wonder they pulled someone from The Block truck. They were loud, obnoxious and went after other teams for no good reason. A perfect match. This team is definitely being helped along because they're the villains of this season. They can't deny it, even the commercials are playing into it. 'We've never had a team fire someone before. But wait! There's more drama!' Cue scenes of Khana and Crepe truck. When it became obvious the Crepe truck was out i thought maybe it would be over but nope, according to the previews they're still being just as ugly. I guess they have to have a hate on for the vegan truck now.

Cudlitz did ok as a villain, but not Lex Luthor--especially the billionaire business man version. Death metal loving biker denim isn't what comes to mind when i hear Lex Luthor. Between how Peia described him and the way they styled that scene with him walking toward Smallville in the storm, I think they going for a riff on Randall Flagg from The Stand.

Anne didn't come off the best last season. She micromanaged and kinda talked down to her team. They're skilled chefs but she seemed to be in Worst Cooks teacher mode. No one came right out and said anything but you could tell it created some tension in her team.

It was Julianna Hough that was a judge when Gabrielle was on and both were let go. Heidi returned and Sophia Vergara was added. I can't stand her in those commercials those commercials either. The old trope of the wife's always right and the husband just has to sit there and be ridiculed as some clueless oaf. Pass.

It's code for ""I have no marketable skills".

Yes, he competed on an episode of Chopped where he stated people would be surprised he was a trained chef and he wanted to show that he could do savory.

Yes, for dessert themed shows. My point is you don't see the pastry background talent turning up on savory shows regularly. The inverse isn't true because you have everyone from Carla to Aarti popping up on the dessert shows.

Neither is Carla. Or Kardea. Or Nancy for that matter. Duff, Lorraine, Stephanie and Zach are the ones who are primarily known for baking. The other chefs may know how to bake but that's not what they're known for. Duff is trained as a savory chef as well, but they don't have him judging Chopped or GGG so it doesn't really cut both ways.

I don't think the Paisani guy's schtick is a schtick. I think it's just who they are and that's why it's not as annoying as one may initially suspect.

Vanna filled in for Pat a couple years ago when he had emergency surgery. No bueno. I feel like Pat's daughter Maggie is in line to replace Vanna when she retires. They had her fill that role when Vanna did Celebrity WOF. I think Wayne Brady would be wasted on this show. He is really good at improv which LMAD let's him showcase. The host on WOF is in large part a traffic cop keeping the game moving. Meh on Seacrest. I don't think he'll be awful but agreed he's overexposed.

It's more than someone walking or a truck self-eliminating since both have happened before. With Tyler pulling them aside, I'm guessing some conduct violation. I'm wondering if their conflict ends up turning physical causing the guy to get booted.

The little league challenge was based on tickets. Each person got 4. I'm assuming a lot of people got their entree and side at the other 7 trucks but got their drink at the vegan truck. I do think the vegan has an edge in profits since they don't have to buy any meat or dairy, which are high dollar items. There was a pricing element this week where Tyler told them their on the fly special had to be $15 forcing them all to sell at the same price and not won on units by doing a drink or one bite sample.

My cable guide shows next week as two hours. Since it's something that's never happened on the show before I'm sure they're going to milk it. It obviously involves the Pakistani truck and the guy on it is gone (more talking heads without him this week) but we've had people walk off before. What's the relationship between the three on that team anyway? The Hawaiian truck wins again. Yawn. They barely showed them in the second hour, other than to point out the long lines from the coconut wireless. It sounds like the vegan truck won the little league because of their drink. With sliders and tacos available, I don't buy they won on their main dishes alone. Points to them for game play. If they're basing totals on net profits vs. sales then the food cost is also helping them in the main selling challenges. In the commercial for this season, they have Tyler saying "it's food truck pros versus...these guys", they cut to Paisani and Tyler says "don't worry, you guys get a truck too." Except Paisani is one of the pro trucks so it's really weird to present them as one of the rookies and not feature any of the rookie teams in the commercial.

Me either. Did no one tell him he looked like he just blew a Smurf?

H&I is making schedule changes week after next. They have a Twilight Zone marathon starting at noon on Sunday 7/2 running through noon on 7/4. I'm assuming this means TZ is being added to the channel somewhere on the schedule (presumably on the weekend if it is). MacGyver is being replaced by another hour of Walker, which...really? That thing already makes up half their schedule. On Tuesday's, Vega$ is out and being replaced by Lethal Weapon. On Wednesday JAG is out and A Team is in. Not sure what changes if any there are for Monday, Thursday and Friday and the weekend since the schedules don't go that far out yet. I saw an ad that Terminator is coming to the channel, I'm assuming on the weekend since there are so few episodes.

This season is not off to a great start. So tired of being stuck in LA. I get they're not going to do a cross country trip ever again, but can't we pick something other than a limited part of SoCal? Not liking most of the teams. The Crepes team seem ok, but are obviously Dead Truck Rolling. Didn't like the woman on the Pakistani truck. At one point she was saying something about how another team didn't deserve to be there. She just came off with a bad attitude. There's also some internal strife on that truck and it's apparently going to end up with the guy bailing because some of the talking heads about the argument didn't include him. I missed it but what is the relationship between those three? The Block truck was exhausting and I'm glad they're gone. They were way, way too over the top. Can't stand people who are always on. I don't mind a little bit of a rivalry on this show but that Block/Pisanani feud had no context. Something must have been said/happened before the first challenge because Block was going after them right out of the gate. It was odd because it seemed fairly one-sided until they started selling. To Pisani's credit, they didn't flip out after the accident and was actually trying to calm the Block's driver down. Despite selling out, Block lost because as they noted their food costs were so high. They also couldn't have put out that many dishes. There were only 4 wings in those packs and the butcher only brought out 6 or so from the back. I'm annoyed with the Hawaiian food truck. They seem nice enough, but I'm not looking forward to another season of watching a team handily in week after week using the "coconut wireless". And it will be even worse this season since they're staying in one place, so the same people will keep coming and jacking up their totals. I fear this is going to be as anticlimactic as the season with the Bahn Mi truck.

These teams really suck at the clues. Did they think there would just be a list of the donuts up on the fridge? And the receipt had a big 4/8 on it that is not 2 days before 4/22. I will say the "There's no evidence X was used" clues are kind of bs. Did the show fire their stylist? Yolanda looked overly made up and Curtis looked like he just rolled out of bed.

There were alternating teams that merged halfway in season 1 as well. They just didn't have any distinction between them. The contestants were just split into two groups. The first group is not amateurs. It's billed as self-taught vs. classically trained but most if not all of them work as bakers.

Yes, he was Alan Brady's brother in law by marriage to Alan's sister.

Vanna will probably stay a bit longer but I wouldn't be surprised if Maggie Sajak replaces her whenever she goes. They seem to be setting that up. After the Jeopardy debacle, they have already picked someone of won't say a word until they do. Unlike Jeopardy and more like TPIR, the Wheel host has more contestant interaction, keeps things moving and has to do a bit of ad libbing. My first thought is they wouldn't go for a known actor but it worked with Drew Carey so if they can find the person it's possible. They're going to needed someone who doesn't overwhelm the show with their own personality.

That whole episode was kinda of a time travel mess, even for ST. Starling )a thinly veiled Bill Gates) was never supposed to create the microchip yet he did using future technology so the entire ST universe is a paradox. But several other episodes (including this one) show there are forces at work that can monitor the timeline and prevent changes. In fact that's what Braxton is doing when he shows up at the beginning and end of the episode. But at the end, Braxton said he never experienced the timeline where he crashed in the past, which would mean Starling never got the future tech, he never spent 30 years on Earth and Voyager shouldn't have remembered their time in the past. As with most time travel stories, best not to think too much about it. But within the context of this mess, yeas Braxton had already been on Earth for 30 years by 1997 and even if he was still somehow on Earth from that point forward probably wouldn't have made it to the 20s given the shape he was in.

I have no idea why they're calling this Matlock. It bears no resemblance to the original Matlock. The original was set in the South with the lead character being a super successful sought-out lawyer who ran his own firm while being old and curmudgeonly. This show is set in NYC with the main character having to fight for recognition in a world populated with young hot shot lawyers while being old and bawdy. Other than the leads both being older and attorneys there's no similarity whatsoever. This is like that Murder, She Wrote reboot they were going to do a few years ago with Octavia Spencer as a nurse who works in a hospital and solves crimes. Yeah, that says Murder, She Wrote to me. Thankfully that one didn't go far, probably in part because Angela Lansbury said it didn't really make sense to call it MSW.

I did too, at first. The judges obviously loved them so I thought they would return later in the season, the first act to be given a second chance in the same year and triumphantly nail their routine. I was shocked they actually let them through after that performance. I don't care what your story is, legitimate or producer manufactured. If you can't nail your act--after two tries no less--you shouldn't move on. Thanks to incessant drug commercials, I know he landed his helicopter on his perineum. It was an eleven yer old doing Whitney Houston doing Journey. Yeah, let's go with interesting. That was the first Golden Buzzer because they had to get it done before the writer's strike.

They made it clear in the special that he worked for Lego now. He talked about moving his family to Denmark and showed pictures of them there.

Given that both Scola and Nina works/worked in their unit, they were all involved in the case where Nina was shot and they were working with Scola as he dealt with that and that there was a serious crisis with the delivery, I don't think it's that out of character for them to show up and support him and Nina. Regarding the delivery, I thought they said they were going to induce labor early, not perform a C-Section. Maybe I misheard that.