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On 5/7/2020 at 3:02 AM, Prower said:
But between Esther and Jonny, Esther did eveything better.
IMO she did everything better, except the "global brand" part which was the point. Her refusal to do color showed she would not compromise sufficiently for buyers. During judging she barely choked out that she would take their input into consideration, but I didn't believe her for a second. She was the more interesting designer but she was not who they were looking for. Not that I think he is either but he's more commercial.
Do you think Esther wears that hat all the time or was it a show gimmick?
On 5/9/2020 at 5:12 AM, raven said:That said, I never thought Esther would win; she was constantly limiting herself and did not seem willing to grow beyond what she currently does. She gave it lip service - she's not dumb - but was not convincing anyone. If she had just thrown in something like a dark purple she could have shown she was really ready to use color. Nothing wrong with sticking with what you love and are good at but it obviously wasn't what the judges were looking for.
Exactly!
A dark muted purple would be have worked really well. It shouldn't be bright red or royal blue, but a moody, saturated, dark color would continue her "universe" and provide a little visual interest. Even print that is mostly black but has a little bit of dark color running through it.
On 5/10/2020 at 5:18 AM, Klaw said:Sander looked like he was going to punch a bitch out when he heard he wasn’t in the finale... can’t say I was sorry to see him knocked down a peg or 2 as I sometimes found his arrogance grating. He’s talented for sure but he still needs to grow up...
I try not to care for TV people enough to feel strong emotions about them, but this. I thought he was even younger than 24 based on his attitude. Also, he could stop calling people skank and biatch.
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The best detail was the coordinated attack by evil Furbys!
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I'm doing a rewatch because it's an excellent post-breakup distraction. Exactly the kind of silliness I need right now! I'm even willing to sit through commercials which is really saying something for me.
What is not served by binging are some of Myka's verbal tics -- especially the way she yells "peeeEEEET!" in this ascending, slightly pitiful way that really undercuts her badassness. Every time she does that it's nails on a chalkboard for me.
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On 7/3/2021 at 7:22 AM, Ellee said:
Shota’s 3rd dish....his mom’s favorite curry ... I’m curious ... if you ordered it out at his restaurant would you be confused as to where you were eating? I ask because I’d like to read someday that it is on his menu and is plated exactly the way he did it on the show. An ode to mom should be exactly the way her son remembers it.
I totally disagree that it should be an exact replica. Not on Top Chef! Not in the finale. They are tasked with showcasing extraordinary skill and bringing forward new dishes the judges haven't tasted before. The japanese curry his mother made was a beautiful inspiration and it could have been elevated so that it was both an ode to his mom and TC worthy. In his own kitchen, fine, but this was not a wise move for winning Top Chef. And I say that as a big Shota fan! I wanted him to win.
20 hours ago, jackjill89 said:Interesting to me that the restaurant industry seems to have a lot of sexual harassers and predators. I wonder why it is -- or if it's not different than any other industry and we've just heard about it because of the celebrity status of some chefs?
I'd go the other way and guess it's because kitchen staffs have been fairly invisible to the outside world. It's undervalued service work that people ignore. We want our food and don't care how we get it. There are celebrities today and kitchens have achieved a higher profile, but the rough culture of kitchens predates that. That said, I don't know why kitchens ever became a place where partying and abuse run rampant. A couple of guesses about some of the dynamics...hierarchy is probably a big factors. Chefs have power and exacting standards, and other cooks/line workers have low status and low pay. That brings out a lot of abuse. And everyone is worked to the bone, which leads to lots of blowing off steam.
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7 hours ago, dleighg said:
I couldn't even imagine it. Cheese is....... gooey. Dashi is ...... clear.
Often I put a parm rind in soup to flavor the broth and it doesn't make it gooey or even murky, so I am guessing it worked something like that. Infused but not melted. Shota said it would still be clear.
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On 6/7/2021 at 4:50 PM, Sakura12 said:
although I'm surprised Spooner was a fork and not a spoon
They had her say something about "forking" someone up, I assume that's why. Cutlery themed but not dull like a spoon and it gave them a punny line.
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On 6/5/2021 at 5:16 AM, icemiser69 said:
Grace changed her tune after she had talked with Michaela. I have no problem with Grace backing off, but in general, emotions don't quickly change like that. After a few hours? Sure, but not immediately.
Right. And as Michaela was explaining "you just have to get through 3 more years" I thought...is this supposed to be a pep talk? That's 4-5 years total of this hellscape considering the time they're already into this. It's a lot to ask. (However, even if she bailed she's still got an 828 kid. She can't actually get away from it.)
On 6/4/2021 at 1:42 PM, JayDub1987 said:Quite possibly my least favorite episode of the season. I assume it was to set stuff up for next year, but that felt like a total snooze fest to me.
It really was awful. Somehow both boring and manic. The show's been "bad TV" all along but I've been willing to see it through. This time I thought maybe I can't do this anymore. Knowing there's two more hours, I'll keep going but that's probably it.
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For the past 4 years I've watched Jeopardy religiously with my partner. It was our little dinnertime tradition! But this week we broke up. Tried watching an episode tonight, the first ToC -- I'm behind because of breakup stuff -- and it felt so sad. It wasn't any fun. I'll have to take a break and see if I can come back later.
That said, I am not surprised that Ryan caught crap for his game. While I don't think he did anything objectively egregious, the J! community does NOT like anything perceived to be immodest or unsportsmanlike. He positively reveled in his victories and that never goes over well.
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The best explanation I had for Earhart was that an alien looked like her to lure Sara and Gary in. Using... some sort of mind-reading so the alien knew what to look like? (Bear with me here, making it up as I go.) Gary had those notable women cards, and if felt beyond coincidental that they'd run into a person from the deck. The dog being similar, taking the appearance a familiar as a lure. Earhart didn't exactly fly with a dog so there's no other reason for her "character" to have one! Unless there's just some random real dog on some random planet and honestly I'll buy some sort of shapeshifting magic over that. And the alien does this to... try to pull in any travelers in the hopes of finding someone who can fly the home? I dunno, I'm reaching here.
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On 4/21/2021 at 11:46 PM, coconspirator said:
After watching most of this season (and knowing this show is meant to be a family comedy) it does appear Rocky Johnson will be whitewashed throughout. Rock’s dad was a pretty sketchy guy, especially in his later years. I can’t expect Rock to address any of that but seeing Rocky Johnson presented as a lovable oaf is jarring.
Dang, I just checked his bio out and if half that's true we're seeing a very sanitized version.
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3 hours ago, cambridgeguy said:
It looks like Thousand Island dressing because they were doing a riff on the Big Mac. San Bernandino is the birthplace of McDonald's.
I appreciated the shoutout from wife about wanting to beat "those brothers".
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Huh, I was a little slow on the uptake. When they showed the chrysalis and Gary as an alien, I thought Gary had been body snatched and replaced by one. I'm honestly surprised they're going with "Gary has always been an alien".
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On 5/3/2021 at 8:13 AM, dubbel zout said:
Same here. Which makes me wonder if Mo will get together with Brad. Those two really hit it off.
What I like about that idea is that it would pay off Mo meeting the kids. Why in the world did Mo push for that?! Perry had the right idea -- a relationship should be rock solid before you do that. It bothered me that he was whiny about that. If Mo started hanging out with Brad, as a friend or lover, then at least that would dovetail.
On 5/3/2021 at 2:36 PM, chaifan said:Pop ups - yep, I agree with others here... this makes no sense as the whole point of pop ups is that they are temporary. A weekend, maybe a week, mayyybeee a month. But certainly not long enough to fully move, sublet an apartment, etc.
I think it's not really that a popup needs so long...it's that Rose and Max want a chance to stay together and solidify their relationship. He doesn't have to sublet anything or fully move...he's just going to crash with Rose and keep paying the rent for his empty apartment. That said, it also might take more than a week to scope out the local region, lock in a suitable location, make sure your business would work locally, and get contracts in place. Popups pop up in a day but they aren't planned in a day in a whole new city.
On 5/4/2021 at 8:09 AM, rejnel said:Totally agree. I adore Mo, and I love that people love, accept, and fall in love with him easily in the world of the show. But I’m glad they’ve addressed that there is fear and unease about gender fluidity. And especially having a likable character talk about it with great reflection, not just some random idiot being overtly phobic or hostile.
The question was raised, why introduce Perry just to have it end this soon? (Assuming it does, officially.) I agree, this is why. There's a lot of fairytale-ness to the show, and I like it that way, but in reality Mo would have a harder time. And I live in SF.
There's another reason why they might have introduced Perry, and that's to set up Mo's growth beyond fun relationships to complex ones. Mo initially didn't want to date a parent but explored it.
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On 4/30/2021 at 8:33 PM, TzuShih said:
No no no no no no! Padma cracked me up -- she was totally aware of her "Don't call us....we'll call you" performing skills. She was so totally laughing along WITH US! 😆
She had a blast and was def laughing at herself! During this episode my BF announced she's now his celebrity crush. Which isn't great news for me since I look approximately 0% like Padma!
On 4/30/2021 at 8:54 PM, Yeah No said:From the looks of her food one might think she was evoking the proverbial rubber chicken used in old comedies!
She was!
On 5/1/2021 at 6:58 AM, Chyromaniac said:They talked about how rubber chickens are an old-timey comedy prop, as well as the wings being “funny bones.”
See, Chyromaniac has it covered :D
Though she certainly didn't intend for her chicken to literally taste rubber-y.
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14 hours ago, juliet73 said:
I would have rather had the husband mention on the video that he already completed everything to legally have Michaela be the woman's guardian. Instead, he talks about giving her the house. A nice house in NYC would get a lot of $$$$ that could go towards putting the mother/wife in nice facility. I thought it was even more fat fetched that they called one place (off screen) and an hour later, someone is there to pick the woman up.
On the video he said he made arrangements for her, so they only had to call one place because contracts were in place and the home was "waiting" for this. (However, having lived through dementia placements, a good facility probably wouldn't have actually had a room available at that very moment! Unless he's been paying for an empty room. But that's Real Life and this is Fiction.)
I would hope he didn't make Michaela her guardian without a conversation. That's a BFD.
Also, un-fun fact: My grandmother's private memory-ward room in a good but not fancy place cost almost $8K/mo. That stuff's expensive.
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On 4/10/2021 at 8:42 PM, Camera One said:
Even though the Callings are still contrived as hell... Did The Callings make the freezy drip requiring Olive to need a tissue and causing the photo to fall onto the ground? So what if Olive hadn't taught her How To Decode Callings 101? Then what? What if they had gone to retrieve the time capsule the next day? This show isn't fun to discuss because there's no real rhyme or reason behind anything. It's not a puzzle. It's a bunch of random crap beside the trash can.
There is a rhyme and reason.... it's all Fate. It's fate that they went to the time capsule that day and then the King Kone at that moment, so that she could drop her photo, so that he could find it and then be arrested just as she was coming back so they could meet. Fate led them to be there in that photo together years before. Every single thing that happens is following some sort of undefined but cosmic plan, the puzzle is following and interpreting the clues.
Personally I don't believe in fate/god(s)/whatever. But the show believes in it :)
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1 hour ago, BryroseA said:
There’s a great restaurant near me that makes a phenomenal barbecue jackfruit that sort of mimics pulled pork - that was where my mind went immediately when I heard this challenge, so Gabe’s slow roasted plum sounded perfect, and I’m glad it was a hit.
Poor Maria just cannot get out of the middle, can she? I thought her albondigas sounded amazing.
The pulled pork style jackfruit really made social media rounds due to Tabitha Brown. There was a few weeks where I saw that constantly!
About the albondigas: The little caption said albondigas seca. Seca means dry. What element gave it that designation? They were still in sauce, obviously so not a dry presentation. In Tucson, where Maria cooks, there is a meat called carne seca, maybe they were made from that? Obviously not a big thing, just curious!
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20 hours ago, meep.meep said:
Avishar had plenty of time to make risotto. What was he trying with the cheese? And did he use any fruit other than a dime's worth of diced apple on top?
Avishar said he used lots of fruit, I think I heard him say there was fruit in the stock used to cook the risotto.
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2 hours ago, sharifa70 said:
I’m not a fan of the flatbread (too sour for my taste), but I liked everything else. There was a mom & pop Ethiopian place on MLK that was delicious as well, though I still wasn’t a fan of the spongy bread.
It's called injera, and yeah I'm not a fan either. The spongy texture creeps me out and since it's your utensil, you end up eating a lot of it. Ethiopian food should come with little signs telling me what's what! When eating a sampler platter, if I can't identify the individual items I don't know what to order next time! So I get another platter and we go round and round. It's not a cuisine I eat a lot of so I haven't learned it well.
I'm always a little surprised to hear that chefs/cooks don't necessarily know all the world cuisines, but that's of course unfair as they are: a) human, b) tied up with very long hours, and c) not wealthy. I guess I just have this idea that chefs are very worldly and know everything about food. I had that reaction this time too -- how could I, a middle-aged white woman know more African food than some of them?! I first had Senegalese food maybe 20 years ago! And while I love food, I rarely eat out. But like I said, I know that's an unreasonable standard to hold them to. I also live in a big city that has literally everything so I have an advantage. But still I have only sampled a few African cuisines. Lots to learn!
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On 4/16/2021 at 5:08 AM, cameron said:
Can someone explain Kwame's painted nails.
Nothing to explain!
On 4/15/2021 at 6:02 PM, Bastet said:I love Talenti gelato, so the QF left me annoyed I don’t have any in my freezer right now. I knew Avishar’s dessert was going to win, because it was so creative. The other top two looked delicious as well, but he got the most inventive with the challenge.
Fun coincidence that my partner had just run up to the store for ice cream and brought back one of the Talenti layers. We've never even bought Talenti before, much less the layers! He had just dipped his spoon in when the show started and what he was eating was the QF star. The layers are hard to eat. You kind of have to eat them one layer, or at best 1-1/2 layers at a time.
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On 4/4/2021 at 9:33 PM, Trini said:
About the other relationships: I have a feeling that Mo/Hot Inspector isn't going to last.
I can't imagine how it would last. Going outside your comfort zone is one thing. Getting involved with a Dad of a 7 and 9 year old when you're still happily in your partying years is rough. Doesn't match Mo.
Side note on Mo and Max: Who was running their not-restaurant on a Saturday night while they were at the party?! Same when Max left their opening night. Even with other managers, they would be there literally every day and night especially weekends. I wish I were better at waving these things away! It's not reality.
On 4/5/2021 at 9:54 AM, tennisgurl said:I cant decide on my favorite unspoken reaction this episode, Zoey's confused expression at Tobin and Mackenzie's part of Kiss Me, or David's growing horror as he realizes he's playing along to a song about someone wanting to bang his sister.
The actor playing David did SUCH a great job there!
On 4/5/2021 at 4:41 PM, KaveDweller said:I am not a fan of love triangles in general. I think it is pretty clear Zoey is more into Simon than Max, since she was not ready to un-pause with Max, but is ready to be with Simon. Who still works for her, but I guess we are not dealing with that yet.
Speaking of things I can't wave away! The triangle/tangle/etc doesn't bother me too much but her being his boss is such a sticking point for me. I don't care how much they are into each other, that's a no go.
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Going into JT, I thought Chris was the one most likely to be knifed for his pasta. Dry, undercooked, thick pasta is usually a deal killer. And not even filled enough! When he was rolling it out I saw the excess flour on the dough, which Tom correctly called, and cringed. My parents make their own and that's not a good thing. But, geez, they really hated Sasha's components even more! And even one thing they went after Brittany for -- not enough vinaigrette -- was also Sasha's call even though they didn't know that. Brittany thought there wasn't enough but Sasha talked her out of adding more.
Really impressed by the teams in this challenge. I thought this was an impossible challenge, a tough combination + surprise team + being stuck with the ingredients you already had on hand. They were set up to fail and except for two teams they knocked it out! B&S thought they had it easy by not having to create a new dish from scratch but that's what doomed them.
Interesting to hear about their challenges with alcohol. This has been a big drinking time, on top of an industry that's known for it. Is Gregory sober as well? Not sure. My partner stopped drinking a couple years ago so I'm always interested in how open people are, how permanently they view it, and how they describe it. Sasha said she has gotten sober, whereas Shota is "not drinking right now". All valid!
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11 hours ago, RockShrimp said:
Blais was a douche but ok with me - you waited til last you get the hardest one, ok... until he asked for corned beef hash AND hash browns. you're getting two potato sides?
Then again those two guys got everything on the plate vs some folks with easier dishes.
That used to be my late night diner order! Never breakfast, but at midnight or 2a? Absolutely. Hash browns and corned beef hash for the win!
ETA: I remembered I HAVE ordered that for breakfast! A little embarrassing but the heart wants what it wants.
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2 hours ago, dleighg said:
I couldn't tell-- did she add the pepper, or not? I thought it was funny that with all their bickering, their dish was a favorite.
Yes, she ignored him and added it.
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S02.E04: Face Off
in Making The Cut
Overalls are really big right now! All over my IG and YT fashion feeds for the past year and a half. Mostly 20-somethings but not exclusively. Their cousin, "boiler suits", have also made a comeback and OMG WHY.
Exactly. As a design school graduate, I can attest that critiques are constant. The best designer in the nicest program gets their work challenged at best and trashed at worst.