TV: Top Chef's Toby Young

Top Chef is one of the best reality shows on television. Like Project Runway, it is a competition show based on talent. Alliances will get you nowhere, and there is little you can do to "strategize" beyond just cooking amazing food. Hopefully this show (and its beloved fashionista counterpart) will be on the air for MANY more seasons.

But please oh please let those future seasons be spared the idiot new judge Toby Young. Please have Gail return or at least replace her and her replacement with Ted from Queer Eye. Where is Ted this season?! He better have a good excuse!

I'm sure that Toby Young had every intention of being the Simon Cowell or Godon Ramsey of Top Chef, and wanted to be the judge viewers "loved to hate." Unfortunately, I think he thought that everyone would hate him because he was too harsh. This is not the case. I hate Toby Young because of his elaborate, often non-sensical, and totally useless metaphors. The guy will go on and on about how this dish was so bad it is actually one of the weapons of mass destruction the UN couldn't find. What?

Toby should take a cue from the other judges and give real criticisms, without concern for his own television persona.  These judges above any others on television competition shows to a fantastic job of providing helpful comments and valid critiques.  Sometimes they are harsh, but they are always keeping it real. 

Here's a link to an EW article that elaborates further on why Young sucks.