The show is exposing itself as theater. They keep Matt on the show because it's exciting to have a big dumb whiny baby bitch. Shayna left because she wasn't exciting; I don't really remember a thing about her before this - and she gets booted for being slow, fine. But for being slow during prep?

you. You have 9 or so people who can't run a

ing service proper, and you kick off someone because they weren't fast during prep? If they ran out of something that was prepped, maybe. The show didn't convey that. At all.
Corey will stay on the show because she's a cunt.
I haven't really seen any amazing stuff out of anyone on the show yet. I like the characters, but I'm let down by Ramsay attaching himself to a show where cooking is so secondary.
Then they have a mincing little

of a teenager and her rich quasi-hip mother be the center of the service. THE GIRL NEVER ATE A

ING SHRIMP. That's not something to gauge "foodie" or "not foodie" by. That's just off the

ing radar, man. Even people who eat at "Long John Silver's" have had shrimp. I was fuming when she was prattling and giggling about the pomegranate seeds on the flank steak (which sounds like a shitty idea, but that's not the point).
I totally disagree with letting Shayna go. It, The Pink Spiders, the never-ate-a-shrimp girl (given how the guests at the party got an Ed Hardy gift bag worth a minimum $250 per, god only knows how much this soiree cost altogether for some ungrateful

), and keeping several thoroughly incapable and unreliable kitchen hands on the show expose this as having nothing to do with the ability to be a chef: you win the prize if you keep ratings high.
Ugh. I can't wait to see what pretentious meals get made on Top Chef tonight.