

While the past five or six seasons or so have been enjoyable and are still classically "Top Chef," there's a certain sterility and flatness that the show tends to veer into for me, which feels like it's becoming more and more tepid as time goes by.
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but at the end of the day, those episodes are still profoundly more entertaining, if we're being honest. I also have another complaint, if I'm being upfront: While doing a rewatch, it's fun to laugh at the antics of the early seasons, from the yelling and fighting to the early reality show tropes and oftentimes borderline amateurish food. Whenever I settle in for a "Top Chef" rewatch, Restaurant Wars is one of the episodes I almost always immediately skip.
