• ‘Top Chef: World All-Stars' Review: Satisfying, But Missing Some Acid

    11 days ago - By Observer

    In my household, Top Chef is the one television show that unites the family. My wife and I will drift in and out of each others' favorite shows (I devour intense narrative television for both work and pleasure; she prefers “background TV” that she can halfway tune out), but neither of us would dare watch Top Chef without the other.
    Where other cooking competitions may rely too much on typical reality show melodrama or, conversely, be so gentle and cozy as to undercut any sense of stakes, Top Chef is as much about craft as it is about personality. We tune in to watch competitors with...
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