Chris Ryan

I wish every Monday had a top chef and every Wednesday had a survivor.

I would be a happier person if it was like a 12 month a year thing.

They just run on my vision, bro.

There you go.

I think that in some ways, like they've iterated too much to keep up with maybe perceived Joneses.

I mean, couldn't Magic Love sell it to Food Channel?

Like, Food Network?

Because it's getting swallowed up by, like, summer house stuff, right?

Yeah, I find that the judges have been marginalized this season too.

There's way too much noise going on around them.

I don't feel like I'm hearing... The thing that I love about this show and probably my greatest engagement with it was this sort of run where I think...

they encourage chefs earlier in the season to cook, quote, their food.

And you can think it's cheesy to be like, I'm telling a story or this is about my background, but it actually produced compelling televisual storytelling to have somebody be like, I've grown up through this French culinary tradition, but now I'm really going to start cooking the stuff that my mother used to make me, but put my spin on it.

Or I'm bringing technique to something that traditionally is very rustic.

Or whatever it is, I feel like Tom and Gail and Kristen and then at various points, you know, before Padma, were really like, you're on Top Chef, fucking impress us.

Like, do it.

And now I feel like there's just been way too many goofy things that have stopped someone like, for instance, Sherry or Jonathan, who...

I just think Sherry is only now starting to be like, I'm making this fritter because this is this thing that, and nobody's ever had this before or whatever.

And, you know, even Lawrence, who I don't think is very like demonstrative about what's going on, but has been cooking this amazing food all year.

I don't even feel like they're celebrating it.