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Top Chef: Wisconsin Recap: Conceptual Clumsiness
This season’s Restaurant Wars offers a classic example of a team not hitting the challenge brief and succeeding all the same.
The chefs meet Kristen and Tom at Milwaukee’s Discovery World, where they learn there’s no Quickfire challenge this week because, despite there being an odd number of competitors left, they’re heading into Restaurant Wars. The episode again feints toward sending two people home because it can, but ultimately it’s Kaleena who’s leaving, because the executive chef on the losing team of Restaurant Wars getting cut is still one of the most predictable judging decisions on this show. The roller coaster sounds grueling and exhausting, and I think it was really self-aware and confident of Kaleena to realize she’d proven all she needed to and didn’t want to dive back into the tumult.
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