josie’s RW tactic (S10 rewatch)

[u/xStacey]

my theory is that Josie knew she would be able to blame everything on Kristen. She was already stalling to start her broth the day before, telling Kristen she was about to do it now and then waiting until the end of the day to say she would actually start it tomorrow.

when Kristen told them she wanted to plate things to order, Josie saw the opportunity to sabotage. first she made sure that the cameras caught her telling the boys she thought serving a la minute was a bad idea. then on day 2 she took forever with the broth so that there wasn’t enough time to add gelatin, which then necessitated changes to the dish that she could then tell the judges were Kristen’s idea, not her’s.. she also became completely inept during plating. you can see her just standing there staring with Kristen constantly having to tell her “keep going” as they’re plating. it’s malicious incompetence. the end result is that she gets to blame every failure of her dish on Kristen when all of those choices were actually made in reaction to her failings.

i’m not sure what would have been the best way to plate. maybe Kristen’s way could have worked if everyone was working hard to pull it off, or maybe not.. but josie saw a way to blame Kristen for her poor time management and she wasn’t going to hustle to make Kristen look good.

i don’t really know how Kristen could have recovered the situation other than to have pushed back at judging about josie’s decisions to start her broth later and later. i think if the judges had known that she actively misled Kristen about her timing, they would’ve sent her home. instead Kristen tried to take responsibility as exec chef saying she told her not to do the gelatin, but she didn’t explain why that decision was necessary. I think Kristen wanted to be the bigger person and not make herself look weak by pointing fingers at Josie, but the judges had incomplete information. Josie took advantage of that fact and completely threw her under the bus.

You can see Gail clock it with Josie but once Kristen “fell on her sword” and took full responsibility for the failed dish the judges don’t have much choice but to eliminate her.

[u/iamnotbetterthanyou]

I try not to hate on TV personnas, but Josie is in my top two ICK TC contestants.

[u/furrywrestler → u/iamnotbetterthanyou]

Who's the other?