Maybe that's why I enjoy Last Restaurant Standing so much, it's the same… but it's different. The show operates, usually, in a much more genial way than American reality shows; there seems to be little to no backstabbing, it's all about each team doing their best.

Actually, that's exactly why I felt like last night's episode took a weird, slightly disturbing, turn. When Raymond Blanc fired Lloyd and Adwoa, he explained, quite clearly, that Adwoa was fantastic, that she was a great cook and managed the kitchen beautifully. He then said that Lloyd was the weakness of the team, that he did, to put it plainly, a bad job managing the front of the house. If Adwoa was working with someone else, not her fiancé, it's entirely possible she could have won the competition.

I just wonder where they go as a couple now. I would hope that I would be a big enough person that my fiancée crushing all my hopes and dreams wouldn't cause me any sort of resentment, but that's kind of hard to take. I know I'd get over it eventually, but in the short term I think I'd be pretty angry. If the person you loved most in the world caused you to lose your dreams, you'd probably be angry, too.

I can't figure out why Raymond would frame his dismissing the couple from the competition in quite that way. It may have been truthful, but surely it should have been couched in more diplomatic terms, terms that may not have had the ability to create such a negative impact on the couple.

No? Am I wrong? Speak up if you think so.