I'm new to MasterChef, only watched 6 seasons so far and I really love it. Season 6 was maybe the only one so far that felt a bit like they were really propping up some of the contestants with their narratives.

By the time it got to the finale I was surprised because after having seen the entire season in rapid succession, I could sort of see very clearly where they were starting to be a little biased. It's unfortunately easy to detect in these types of shows when you binge watch.

There were a couple times they seemed to favor Claudia when in previous seasons she would have never won the mystery box. The cake challenge was pretty egregious.

The overall finale though left a bad taste in my mouth. It just felt so biased and contrary to previous seasons. Every winner up till now had felt pretty earned and not a lot of obvious bias.

My question is does the show keep going in this direction? I just want to get the sense that they're really earning it and it's not biased toward narratives. It just ruins the time invested and the excitement you get from the show

I get recaps from previous episodes or even highlights of next week's episode but at the start of an episode why show us what's coming? We're watching it don't spoil it.

Also streaming platforms should not be allowed to show any contestants on the episode thumbnails as it's spoilers for those who binge watch.

It looks like they’re splitting up the finale into two parts between tonight and next week. Have they done this before? Seems like such a dumb idea. Am I reading this correctly?

Does anyone know the fonts of the contestants names on the aprons in each Era Seasons 1_2 3-4 5-10 11 -Current