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  1. She made a tamarind sauce - for the fish, I think.
  2. I could see it gym class style, if Kevin gets first pick (probably Melissa), then Gregory chooses Stephanie because they worked well together, & then it's Bryan V., Malarkey, Karen, Leeann.
  3. I think it's less that she wouldn't, as that she does whatever suits her purposes. If she'd gotten bored of the baby, I could easily see her abandoning it somewhere where it wouldn't be rescued, not out of deliberate cruelty but out of indifference. There's no strategic necessity of killing it, but she also sees no reason not to. I don't get the sense that killing is something she actively seeks out, but she has no compunctions about doing it; she does, however, clearly enjoy being good at it, & putting her own shocking, stylistic spin on it, although some of that is just that otherwise she gets bored. And, of course, she likes the money. So, she kills for hire, or for strategic reasons, rather than out of compulsion or inherent pleasure in the act. And I agree that she doesn't care whether or not the victim is "deserving" of it in some sense; the person is either inconvenient to her (Eve, or her failed clown assassin protege), or she's getting paid. Dexter had a compulsion to kill, but enough moral center to have an aversion to it, so that necessitated finding an acceptable outlet for the compulsion. Villanelle doesn't have a compulsion; she just doesn't care.
  4. Looks like the photo was released without her permission:
  5. I see just a moment of frustration in the kitchen, which doesn't necessarily correlate with doing poorly in the end; & while it could be a three-person team, it could also be top 8 & one member of the team wasn't shown, or another round with unevenly sized teams (winner of quickfire chooses which team to join, or something).
  6. Here's my favorite gymnastics blog's take on the Killing Eve episode (because there's no actual sports to blog about . . . ) https://balancebeamsituation.com/2020/04/14/skilling-eve/ The atmospherics were fine, I guess, although everything about this episode felt a little thin. More plot-driven than character-driven, so the characters didn't entirely make sense.
  7. Yes, but much closer together, & almost none of those moves would have been done then. I'm sure there's a kip in the routine somewhere, but the bars were variable to get the exact right distance apart to wrap your hips around the low bar with your hands on the high bar (at the right distance, everything was easy, just a little bit off & it hurt!) Here's a good video of the evolution of uneven bars, 1950s to 2000s. For the first half of the 1970s, including featuring Tourischeva et al in the leotards that inspired this one, see 1:32 to about 1:45 or 1:50. (Comaneci's one bar release move was the first of its type - apparently she rotated a Brause too fast once (straddle front flip from low to high) & they realized she could recatch the same bar), but that was 1976. (The bars are too far apart for a Brause now, I imagine - the shaposh sort of fills the role) The low to high bar transitions in the episode's video didn't exist then. The Pak salto was first done in 1991, & while the Shaposhnikova was first done around 1980, it needed a tight pike to fit between the bars at the time.
  8. I think playing a younger Katherine Hepburn would have given more room to be funny, but I guess he thought the Parkinson's jokes were his best shtick. But even as an older Katherine Hepburn, I just didn't recognize her at all. Maybe there were mannerisms - not even sure about that - but the personality & attitude were missing. For a fun KH, not particularly young (1973), you could draw on her Dick Cavett show appearances for inspiration. I just found them on youtube, but two big things that were missing: first, no matter where I click on either of the two 1-hour videos, she's got one leg (left, usually) casually propped up on the coffee table or her chair, with her knee up to nearly shoulder height - except somewhere late in the second one, when she appears to be taking a playful swipe at Cavett for something he must have said. So - capture the irreverent, IDGAF posture & attitude. Second, she's confident & she's having fun. She's opinionated, she laughs easily, & even when she's irritated, she's taking pleasure in the confidence she has that she's right. I didn't see that woman at all. Instead we got a lost old lady with Parkinson's bluffing her way through, in that sense a little like Aidan Zayn's impression of the RH actress. Haughtier, maybe, but there was a lot more to KH than that, & the haughtiness felt earned instead of like a front.
  9. True, but it was also the only statue that sort of worked, & in that sense got closer to the brief than those that reminded me more of that failed Spanish restoration of a fresco of Jesus. I thought only her statue & the drapery on Rosalind's statue were successful, & with Rosa, it may have been simply a matter of running out of time to shift from getting the proportions right (also vital for classical form) to smoothing out the surface for that sort of subtle detail.
  10. Usually it's first week of May, or occasionally the last week of April. Season two started earlier (4/19) & season 5 started later (6/2) but the rest were 4/27-5/7 (2 of those in April, 7 in May, for a total of 3 April, 7 May, 1 June).
  11. I think the name's fine (although the spelling is weird). The only Kai I can think of is Kai Ryssdal, who hosts Marketplace on American Public Radio (depending where you live, your local NPR station may carry it), so it doesn't sound weird to me. The overall result with the Hispanic last name sounds very American melting pot to me, as opposed to just hick trashy. The kid's prospects, though - well, let's hope for the best.
  12. if she were a 16-year-old intern whose prim mother had selected her outfit.
  13. It was amusing in the technical when some where confounded by instructions to "cream" butter & sugar, or "fold in" flour. Considering how little some of them knew, they did all right!
  14. I might have when I lived in a small-ish town on VT - although I'd have been averse to being on TV, I got very tired of the food options, so the Creole & Lumpia trucks, in particular, would have been very appealing. The local restaurants were pretty good, but variety you didn't have to drive to Boston for would have been nice! Even the $20 lobster mac would have appealed (as a one-off). The Minnesota women seemed to be serving stuff I could already have gotten there, so why bother even if it's pretty good; & whoever served apple fritters wouldn't have tempted me either, because there's already both Dunkin Donuts & local bakeries, so again, no shortage of that sort of food/no unsatisfied yearning for it.
  15. It was Brianna who was considering putting her second baby up for adoption - Louis said absolutely not. Basically the only time I can remember him saying he'd be around to help out was when she raised the possibility of adoption.
  16. Jesus. It's basically a jar of candy. No wonder the baby is happy. See here for the description & ingredient list. https://www.fokkennuts.com/product/monster-cookies/. (Contains chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, generic M&Ms, & granola; & even before you get to the candies, the second & third ingredients, after peanuts, are sugar & brown sugar.) So, I guess the flavor development concept is mix a bunch of candy into a jar of peanut butter & feed it to babies. I suppose the "wholesome" concept of monster cookies is that you will bake cookies out of this.
  17. This was such an enjoyable series! I hope some of you catch it at some point. Here's a good article about what made it such a treat. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/nov/11/junior-bake-off-the-kids-spinoff-thats-the-perfect-antidote-to-baking-brutality
  18. Yup, rocket = arugula. If you'd like to take more than my word for it, this little article provides a bit of nice background. https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/the-etymology-of-the-word-arugula
  19. I wonder if it's the 15-minute time limits that throw them off their game. Still, that doesn't explain not knowing what "spatchcock" means.
  20. You have to be a TN resident for six months to file, normally - you can file immediately, though, if there was abuse. Once you file, there's a mandatory 60 day waiting period before the divorce can go through, 90 days if there are children. So, in the absence of abuse, it wouldn't really speed things up that much vs staying in NC & waiting the year to file. https://www.divorcenet.com/states/tennessee/tn_faq04
  21. I'd like to think both Alice & David would put him more in the category of younger brother than love interest.
  22. I don't actually think it's a bad picture, but I'm pleased that it's at 7,000 likes & Jenelle has more than 200k for her "I'm leaving him" post (which is about 10x as many as she usually gets, it seems, though I didn't look too closely, & it was a couple of days ago so my memory could be a bit off).
  23. 15 episodes, apparently. https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/junior-bake-off-2019-contestants-presenters-when-channel-4-start-time-821934 (I found this while trying to find the schedule - every night, it says - but it also says 40 contestants. So - ?) I really like Liam in this role, actually. He interacts well with the kids & seemed to be the one trying the most to help them keep things in perspective & be proud of what they'd done, without being condescending about it.
  24. I'm thinking bar cookies, basically. In this case they had to have distinct layers, but I don't think that's always the case. (actually, I guess that was my impression before this episode. Now when I look it up, I see that some versions incorporate things like cream or jelly layers (vanilla slice & jelly slices, for example), and we saw that kind of thing here, but I wouldn't expect to see those in American bar cookie type treats. I guess you see cake layers, too. But, something baked or formed in a tray or pan & then cut up.)
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