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I think it would have been hilarious if her team had served Kari's dish as it was--a day-old crepe with a scoop of hard mousse on it.

I really enjoyed watching how the different dynamics played out between the teams. Mei and Melissa took the same roles as Gregory and Katsuji, but with a completely different attitude. They wanted the team to succeed, and were very supportive of EC and FOH. Gregory and Katsuji, OTOH, didn't care about the team, just themselves and that contributed nearly as much to team's poor performance as Katie and Kari Ann. I have to admit that I more often than not post on this forum to snark, but today I can't say enough good things about team gray. They were like a well-orchestrated dance routine! Bravo.

If you were Kari Ann, wouldn't you check the first servings of the dessert before they went out? It sounded like she didn't know they heated it up until nearly the end. The gray team were a joy to watch. I don't know about that. He reacted pretty well to the missing clam shells. Looked for a bit, then just got out the spares and started over. Maybe Doug was a calming influence, though.

I did like how blessedly free of sob stories the last episode was. They wanted to win either for their families, none of whom were dead, dying, or had bad teeth, or to put the money in their business. That how Chopped used to be. Maybe TPTB finally got the message. I thought the guy who forgot the ginger should have been out. It didn't seem that the rest of the dish was that spectacular, and enough to compensate. I hate ginger with a passion, so to me any dish would be better off without it, so he had that advantage in not having to use it. But the runner up guy just literally scooped out the creme brule and put in on the plate, so I guess that's a wash. Glad they didn't have to actually use meat in the dessert round.

I see the name of this episode (Dec 4) is Auditions & Childhood. I'm okay with the Auditions part, but childhood? Yuck. Sounds like sob story time. I'm betting that Lauren from Chopped shows up. Any takers?

Me too (beaten) :-)

If they are trying to get in on the current Bible craze, I hope they don't change the book I love this book and I hope they do it credit. Debra Winger as the ancient Rebecca, The Grandmother? Yikes.

Where they didn't go far enough re Coin and District 13 I agree Finnick's moving speech got short changed. With all the padding they did add, that is one place they really scrimped.

I like the George C. Scott A Christmas Carol the best--he's terrific in the part as areDavid Warner as Cratchit and Roger Rees as Fred. Another favorite of mine is Ebbie, with Susan Lucci as a modern-day (well, 1990's at this point) Elizabeth Scrooge. I pretty much like any version of a Christmas Carol, except for the one with Vanessa Williams as a pop diva. My sister really likes all those Lifetime/Hallmark movies, so I have to endure them. I play a game with myself where I try to figure out the entire plot in the first five minutes. Pretty easy, as they are very formulaic. Guilty pleasure: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Cousin Eddie cracks me up.

My coworkers are looking at me funny because I keep making this choking sound. Thanks for the laugh.

I liked Kate's remark about how bondage-inspired Dimitri's was and wondered what that said about his love life. But what does a colorless babydoll say about Kate's? I think Dimitri is a hoot. He makes me laugh. I wish the neoprene craze would stop. It always looks cheap to me. And I can't imagine wearing something that non-breathable for long without getting damp and sweaty everywhere it touches the skin.

Yeah, I was very disappointed that not only did we have to hear about the sister in talking heads, then again at the judge's table, and then AGAIN from the judges. Why did they ask him if he thinks about his sister when cooking. WTH does that have to do with anything? I'm not quite at the point where I think the sob stories have a bearing on the ultimate winner and I can see how he won. But hey, producers, IT'S BORING AS HELL. The only thing that would have been interesting is if they ended the show with a picture of her smiling with her brand new shiny white teeth, because that would have been hilarious. Don't TPTB realize that instead of evoking empathy with the audience, it's become a cause for ridicule?

I just thought this was just looking at the person speaking thing, out of habit or courtesy. I didn't think it was a "hard" look, or sneering. The questions in this tournament seem particularly hard to me. I'm not that surprised at the low scores.

Thanks. Apparently they can grow crops in the space stations. Why couldn't they just do that and leave the people on Earth? I liked the movie overall, but thought it got too convoluted at the end and relied on pretty huge conclusions being leapt to by Murph. Did they say whether or not anyone else was going to go to Brand's planet? Or are Cooper and Brand going to hatch all those eggs and start a colony there? As you can tell, I think the ending was rushed and provided too little explanation.

ITA. And on a shallow note, I find her voice nasal and whiny sounding. I never understood all the Arthur hate. I remember at least twice during his original run he went for the tie instead of the win. Did Julia ever do that?

I just saw Interstellar and I have no idea what happened to the people on Earth. I assume Cooper relayed the missing gravity data from the black hole back to Murphy via the watch, but what did she do with it? Did they complete Plan A? Where did they go? I swear I was paying attention but I must have missed something big at the end. Can anyone help me?

If the point was to look younger, epic fail, at least in the picture I saw. She doesn't look bad, but she doesn't look any younger. (Personally, I think she looked better before). I think she just looks plain, almost nondescript now, when before she had her own distinct look. I can't see this doing much to get her more movie roles. I had the same thought about the witness protection program.

As someone who majored in Sociology, that episode was fascinating to me. What a microcosm society, complete with power bases and group-think.

That was the one where they updated a look from a fashion icon. It was uncanny how perfectly the icons fit with the designers, e.g., Marilyn Monroe for Kayne, Katharine Hepburn for Laura, Jackie O for Robert Best, Madonna for Jeffrey, Pam Greer for Mychael, etc.

I few times so far this season (again last night), I saw Michelle onscreen and wondered who that guy with the weird mohawk was. I swear it takes me a few seconds to recognize her sometimes. I'm not sure that her hairdo would look good on anyone, but I think it really doesn't go with her face (and her face is fine). I too was disappointed with just black and white (with one grey exception). I cannot for the life of me remember anything of Samantha from her season.

Not abusive, no, but incompatible in a very important way. If both were asexual, fine, I wished they had kept them that way. If an open relationship is agreed to, fine. But Amy telling Sheldon she's hoping for sex "all the time" with him is sad. It's unfair to both of them. Can someone in their thirties become a more sexual person? Is that really possible? Doesn't sound very realistic to me, which is why I think the Sheldon-Amy relationship is beyond being salvaged in a realistic way. It's like when characters who have been shown to be hetero suddenly become gay (Grey's Anatomy, looking at you.) I don't think human physiology works that way. Sheldon can certainly love Amy, but grow into feeling sexually attracted to her? To me, being asexual is as valid an orientation as hetero or homo. If Sheldon were gay, would they be able to portray him as immature? No, but Amy's quest would be just as hopeless.

I am cynical enough to believe that it was going to be 2-2 regardless of who was matched against who. But they still could have set it up that the remaining chefs on the losing team would basically be at war with each other, rather than the opposing team (additional winning team members could still have presented if they had chosen to declare an individual winner). I was rather hoping it wouldn't be 2-2 just to see what they'd do.

Yeesh. It wasn't like she was using the tongs to mash the hell out of that poor, dead fish. She didn't break up the filet or whatever he had his undies in a bunch over.

I will devour anything and everything associated with P&P, but I think very few adaptations or sequels deal with the fact that P&P was exquisitely funny. Even Lydia's disgrace served up some hilarious moments from Mrs. Bennet. This movie, like the Keara Knightly version, was so cheerless and dour, as if it had been an adaptation of a Bronte novel.

It definitely was a "remember Point Break" moment, and I had the exact same reaction I did to that movie--HATED it. I don't care how much of a thrill it is to surf, it's no justification for terrorizing and violating others to maintain your endless summer. Kono seemed almost sympathetic. I wanted to slap her. After the fake wife says she'll shoot the girl, I said out loud, "Do it. I don't care." Loved it when 50 said the same thing. I also told McGarret to shoot the tires, but he never listens to me. :-)