and on that Top Chef episode...

...I've seen a lot of people complaining about how Leah and Hosea threw Ariane under the bus. No, not really; Leah, not so much Hosea, was just trying to save her own ass, an absolutely understandable part of the competition. She hardly acted like a saint, but if Ariane wanted to stay so badly, she would have argued back against Leah. In addition to cooking lamb crappily, she simply let herself run into Leah's metaphorical knife without doing anything to stop it even after the fact. Yeah, Leah's a bitch, but Ariane just sucks.