Hell’s Kitchen Season 2 Two-Hour Finale: Who’s The Winner?

So it’s down to the wire. Heather and Virginia are the only two left. Which one of these two bawling twenty-something women are going to be running  Chef Ramsay’s Las Vegas restaurant? Which one is most likely to have a crew listen to her? My call: Heather. Same contestant I’ve always had my money on.

Heather’s got more consistent talent, but right now she’s bawling because V’s parents showed up and hers didn’t. My gawd! How the hell are you going to run a frickin’ restaurant if you’re freakin’ blubbering all the time? Then again, V’s got the same problem.

Uhhh. These two idiots are doing a stupid dance for the assembled media reps. Their makeup is caked on, beyond what they usually put on. I’m starting to wonder if either one can hack it.

But their challenge in Vegas is interesting. Heather started off winning, but now V is leading by one point. One customer ties it up. One final customer is going to decide who the winner is…

The winner of the Vegas challenge is… Virginia, by a single vote. H is so disappointed. She’s now thinking even though she’s the better chef, she might still lose. Well, at least V’s not gloating like in the past.

The next challenge is being set up. Both women will get their own half restaurant, designed to their specs. But the contractor is saying that there are some setbacks. They’re pretty minor, considering that it’s an impermanent project. However, both ladies handled things really well.

Still, the hard part is coming, and like last season, six of the losers are back, to make life difficult: keith, garrett, rachel, tom, sara, giacomo.
And since V won the last challenge, she picks first. Who? Keith, who’s visibly disappointed. H then chose Rachel, followed by V picking Tom, H picking Sara, V picking Giacomo, and Garrett was last, so he went to Heather. Very interesting. Sara was a bad pick, but she’d bad everywhere.

Regardless, Heather has a more mature team. Viriginia picked Keith, who despises her, and Tom, who the trailers show “won’t work for a woman”. The very people she picked (all guys by the way) are going to bring her down. Heather has the better, less vindictive team (all girls, except for bitchy Sara.

For example, Keith is already blackmailing V for money if she wins. Tom’s close to that. And Giacomo is an idiot. I’d be truly surprised if Virginia wins. So why did V pick all guys? Because she saw how well Heather did with them, and she knows the women on Heather’s team don’t like her. Either way, Virginia is in for a challenge, but Ramsay really does seem to have a thing for her, despite his exclamation in the first show, when viewing her application video: “Oh my god, she’s wearing makeup,” said with great disdain. So what changed, considering she’s been wearing more makeup than Heather?

Heather, though, is showing her ability to keep a cool head. She really wants to win. Unfortunately, Chef Ramsay thinks her dishes are nice but boring. He really liked Virginia’s menu, and said that V’s is California, H’s is gritty New York. Maybe Keith was right, that Ramsay has a thing for V. Let’s hope not, because I can see her have a nervous breakdown in the future if she does win.

Well, it’s a few minutes before their custom restaurants open, and Ramsay doesn’t like the graffiti on the wall of H’s restaurant. (Fortunately, it’s dry erase.) But he likes V’s set up; the waterfall is exceptional. One dinner service remains to decide the winner.

I can’t wait to see which one will be bawling her head off when she loses. If H loses, someone will offer a job. If V loses, I doubt, but I could be wrong. So the way I see, H is going to win, so to speak, no matter what happens. Still, she’s not recently married like V, so moving to Vegas isn’t going to be as much of an issue. On the other hand, V’s husband is a chef as well.

The service has just begun, and red is doing well, with lots of energy. Blue team looks confused and sedated. They’d better get into gear, as the CEO of the billion dollar Red Rock Resort (where the winner’s restaurant is going) is hiding amongst the diners.

Blue team is really slow and V is taking forever to plate food. Too perfectionist. Thirty-two of fifty apps have gone out for Red (H), but some of them are coming back. Blue is having a hard time because of incompetent Giacomo. V is catching the problems, but then apps aren’t getting out.

So V sets Keith to helping her plate the apps. H’s apps are getting both positive and negative comments. Sara is overdoing the sauce; typical of her sabotage nature exhibited in every show she was in. Fortunately, Rachel is mature and is doing her best.

Also fortunately, the secret CEO liked Heather’s steak but not V’s dish (whatever that was; I can’t remember). V’s suffering because Keith is taking advantage of her, Giacomo is screwing up, and Tom once again cut himself, after going on about how he won’t take all the bossing around from a woman.

At this point, Heather’s got it in the bag, despite the problems she’s having. That’s because she’s handling the returns very well, managing the team very well, and getting a substitution out to a customer in short order. If she doesn’t win, I’ll be truly surprised.

In fact, V is behind by seven apps, and now that Tom’s out, things are delayed even further. Ramsay calls Tom a drama queen, for his reaction (even though Tom didn’t make a big deal of it).

Lucky for V, the secret CEO liked her apps. But Tom is really taking it badly that Ramsay is once again insulting him with personal comments.

V has worse problems: she’s run out of food and can’t replace a returned snapper app. Meanwhile, H’s Red team is doing desserts. But Sara is really screwing up the plating and taking things personally. Heather is starting to get hot-tempered, which is causing the team to snicker and make comments under their breath. But she remedies that at the end when they complete service and she thanks them. V, on the other hand, is having champagne with her Blue team.

And now, who’s the winner? Scott, the secret CEO, is going to help Chef Ramsay decide. Boy are the girls sweating. Except he liked both V’s short ribs and H’s sea bass.

Ramsay is going somewhere to decide, and the girls are hugging their teams. Oddly, both H and V think they’ve lost. No, no, no. H, you won. There’s no bloody way that V won. She can’t control her team as well. At least they’re being humble.

Ramsay says that the customer comment cards show a slight edge to one of them. Unfortunately, he hinted that V has a great palate. And now V is saying that she can feel she won.

Let’s see whose door opens. Ramsay did this last season. He issued two keys to the two finalists. Each stood in front of a door, and the one that opened indicated the winner.

This time around? Who is it, she’s hiding her face and bawling her head off. Yes!!! The winner of Hell’s Kitchen Season Two is Heather, the one who always deserved to win. And surprisingly, V isn’t crying. She’s actually taking it really well, saying she trusts Chef Ramsay’s decision and knows that one day she’ll be a great chef.

Ramsay finishes off by saying that for a 25 year old woman, she’s got great leadership qualities and is going to be a great chef. Oh yeah, his final message: My work is done, I’m ready for the next challenge, and f**k you all. Well, considering he isn’t doing a third season for the British version of Hell’s Kitchen, I’m not sure what’s happening in the USA.

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