Everyone brace yourselves, because tonight's Top Chef Masters is the one with Christina Hendricks (and her boobs) guest judging a sixties-themed challenge that I hope won't be too on the nose, as this show sometimes ends up falling trap to. It would be demoralizing to have to watch George Mendes struggle to make a dish out of cigarette ash and widely accepted racism, you know.

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The Top Chef Masters champion rounds begin tonight, which means we'll actually get to know these chefs a little bit. These are chefs we've already met, and now we have four weeks to observe them and pick apart all their random attributes that we perceive as personality flaws. It's just like regular Top Chef! But so much fancier!

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Right on the heels of the premiere of lesser culinary competition show The Next Food Network Star, we get a brand new Top Chef edition to obsess over all summer. If you've missed the promos, Top Chef Masters pits 24 of the country's most successful and renowned chefs against each other in weekly challenges for the charity of their choice. It differs in format from regular Top Chef in that the contestants will be competing in a sort of bracket system -- they'll battle it out in groups of four at a time for six weeks, crowning one winner each week. On the seventh week, the six winners from those weeks will compete against each other to become Top Chef Master. Got it? Good, because it's going to be awesome.

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