Hello from North Dakota!! (Top Chep Fargo?!) lol My husband & I have watched Top Chef from the beginning & LOVE the show! It's so very well done & interesting, plus we think you're all wonderful people! This is our only MUST SEE show of the week! We can't wait for next season ... miss you all! Shannon & hubby

I discovered Top Chef in Season 6 and I am hooked! I just finished watching Season 2 finale (has to be the craziest season ever!) and I felt really bothered by the other chef's behavior towards Marcel. Was he really that bad? Did Sam really want to be his sous chef or do you think he was planning to sabotage? Sam and Michael seemed really unmotivated. Maybe Michael forgot the fish on purpose? I was surprised to see that Sam, Mia and Frank want to be sous chef for Marcel. It made me wonder if the chefs were told that they had to chose the finalists equally. At any rate, I loved it and I can't wait to move on to Season 3!

I watched a replay of Mia Gaines-Alt going home. I know that I'm not privy to what goes on. But Mia was very wronged in this challenge. And Tom if you look at the tape she did fight. She's just not a complete jerk like Cliff. She was stonewalled by Cliff (who thank god rightly went home after tackling and subduing poor Marcel.) Mia fought spoke up and was not given respect and had Cliff to speak over her constantly.

And Elia did not have Mia's back. So Mr. Colichicco. Had you come from where she had, with the same disadvantages, would you have the same ability to know when people won't listen to you. People listen to you and it's not always just because it is you. There are other factors, your gender, your social standing your own expectations that come from a lifetime of your ancestors being listened too. I hope you acknowledged to Mia that you don't know what it is like to come from where she has and to fight and make yourself heard. Interesting isn't it. I believe success like hers is all the more sweeter. I hope Elia understands the depth of this strong woman and the gift Mia gave her. And for Cliff, I'm not interested in eating someone's food who would treat someone the way he treated Mia. He was never a team player, in front of him was an example of someone who was interested in what was the best for the team and stood up for it. I hope he was humbled (and also the other guy) by her sense of what was right.

And I thought maybe the other guy (Mike?) might have gone home and Mia stay. But I think at some point you do make a decision when people like Cliff are around and leave such behavior behind.

Mia I hope you are well and I admire you.

I watched a replay of Mia Gaines-Alt going home. I know that I'm not privy to what goes on. But Mia was very wronged in this challenge. And Tom if you look at the tape she did fight. She's just not a complete jerk like Cliff. She was stonewalled by Cliff (who thank god rightly went home after tackling and subduing poor Marcel.) Mia fought spoke up and was not given respect and had Cliff to speak over her constantly. And Elia did not have Mia's back. So Mr. Colichicco. Had you come from where she had, with the same disadvantages, would you have the same ability to know when people won't listen to you. People listen to you and it's not always just because it is you. There are other factors, your gender, your social standing your own expectations that come from a lifetime of your ancestors being listened too. I hope you acknowledged to Mia that you don't know what it is like to come from where she has and to fight and make yourself heard. Interesting isn't it. I believe success like hers is all the more sweeter. I hope Elia understands the depth of this strong woman and the gift Mia gave her. And for Cliff, I'm not interested in eating someone's food who would treat someone the way he treated Mia. He was never a team player, in front of him was an example of someone who was interested in what was the best for the team and stood up for it. I hope he was humbled (and also the other guy) by her sense of what was right. And I thought maybe the other guy (Mike?) might have gone home and Mia stay. But I think at some point you do make a decision when people like Cliff are around and leave such behavior behind. Mia I hope you are well and I admire you…

I was really rooting for Marcel. Although Ilan is a good cook, Marcel has the guts and the balls to try out new things - fun, inventive stuff. Also, the way he carried himself, even if everyone was ganging up against him speaks a lot about his character as well.

Ilan was better over-all and more consistent because he played safe; but Marcel had guts and was able to pull through and he even improved from episode to episode. I guess the final decision is very debatable; but once Marcel overcomes his weaknesses, I have no doubt in my mind, he will be a far more superior chef than Ilan.

So are we gonna get a repeat of Ilan "winning" again?......Please tell me now so I won't watch. STILL can't believe that you all picked this "chef"........Marcel should have won, but he was'nt liked, huh?....Ilan should have been BOOTED off for a number of reasons, mainly for trying to "haze" Marcel AND he WAS NOT the TOP CHEF......Ilan's a loser and ALWAYS WILL BE. Good pick chefs.....:(

Was appalled when I watched this season. Marcel wasn't well-liked but the others down right victimised him. Marcel may have been annoying but Ilan was a bully and terribly childish one at that! Sam is popular because his looks appeal to both men and women! Otherwise, he too badmouthed Marcel at every opportunity, even at moments when Marcel was right. Michael is immature and tolerated only because Marcel is the guy to pick on. Either or both Sam and Michael sabotaged Marcel at the finale (by leaving the fish behind). Ilan didn't deserve to win. In talent and creativity, he was lagging behind Marcel. In personality and maturity, he lags behind the majority of 9-year olds all over the world! And I don't want to get started on self-righteous obnoxious Betty who claims to be a people person but would not even shake Marcel's hand when she was rightly booted out! What the majority of the contestants in Season 2 are is childish people who are puffed up with pride.

I watched Top Chef right from the start of season 1. Season 2 turned out to be disappointing with a whole bunch of egoistic personalities out there trying to accuse each other whenever anything goes wrong, and to take responsibility when something turns out right. Thing is, throughout the competition, those losers are bullying Marcel way too much. Betty is ungracious, her food looks like crap, and she insists that she cooks way better than Marcel when she was booted out. Cliff deserves a tight slap, how he loses his temper in the kitchen and votes for Elia or Marcel out with such hopeless desperation. Ilan, he's super irritating. I was actually shocked to find out he is the top chef of season 2? Come on! He's a plain childish guy who picks on someone and gets everyone on his side. The words he said to Marcel, "Go make your foam and sit at the corner and cry" when he failed at making a proper foam in the next round. What a loser. Probably there needs to be some sort of control over this bullying. If I were Marcel, and I blew it, I'll conveniently take a knife and rid those bullies. On a lighter note, Marcel, well done! Well done ignoring those fools and concentrating on the competition. Even if you didn't get the championship, it's reality tv and everyone on the planet gets to see the ugly truth to the winner.

I'm happy other people have same eye n heart to see what happen in season 2..I'm very disagree llan be a winner...he not always good,he play save n I don't understand way he always attack marcel..what's his problem??? N disquisting conversation I watch when he totold betty " if ur group lose,just blame marcel" are u scare with marcel??? N betty is so not polite..n always felt she more better than matter and in the realism she's not better than marcel.she's out before marcel. And I don't like clift attitude so arrogant...

I laughed when Ilan scorned Marcel for being so certain that he is (or was) a virgin. He sounded like a high school kid who thinks being a virgin is the worst thing possible. Either Ilan has had a charmed life and not experienced any hardship or he is still stuck in a time warp.

After the finale, the so-unworthy winner had mommie battle for him to try and regain - what? dignity?! lol. Ilan, youl silly boy, if you ask any high school kid, they will tell you that its worst to have mommie fight your battles than to be a virgin.