Jump to content

Type keyword(s) to search

Totale

Member
  • Posts

    1.1k
  • Joined

Posts posted by Totale

  1. Aside from maybe minor tweaks to the coating there's very little you can do to make a real (not "clam strip") clam roll better, aside from piling on more clams and making sure there is plenty of tartar sauce.  Round brioche bun, chilis in the tartar sauce?  Just no.  And did Bobby even shuck real live clams?  We saw the challenger doing it, but I don't remember Flay doing so.  It's time consuming, sloppy and a real pain in the ass, and I'll bet he had them done for him ahead of time.

  2. Jeeze, I got over seeing Tonya on TV a decade ago, watching "World's Dumbest..."  I still enjoy watching those reruns on occasion when my DVR suggests it  My wife likes this show (WCinA) more than I do.  The civilian ones can be fun for a while, but I think this was the first time I actually got all the way to the end of a Celebrity edition.  Never made it past (or maybe through) one episode before.  No big surprises past the second episode for me this season, though.  I was calling it from a mile away every week.

    • Love 1
  3. I enjoyed the first double episode, though none of the fights were especially thrilling.  Is the pink haired judge the one that used to drive the bots that looked like bugs and always got beat, maybe Lisa?  She should be sympathetic, anyway, but I wish she was on the floor asking questions rather than the new BotBunny.  Glad it was DVRed so I could skip through the long long long trash talk/hard look into the camera buildup to the final match.

  4. 1 hour ago, tennisgurl said:

    I am now convinced that Richard ends the series as President. 

    And all because Selina gave chocolate to the dog.

    • Love 3
  5. 16 hours ago, mlp said:

    I was glad to see Taryn leave and stay gone.  I thought it was a stunt at first and wondered if it was planned.  I disliked her on first sight so I'm glad she didn't come back. 

    Unusual for FN shows, to me it looked authentic that she walked off (and probably said "Go ahead and sue me" on the way out).  I was wondering if she was vegan or something and thought she could handle it.  She was uncomfortable handling some formerly living product the first week and had to work next to a jabbering asshole, I think chicken feet just went too far.

    • Useful 2
    • LOL 1
    • Love 4
  6. On 4/17/2019 at 9:36 PM, JasmineFlower said:

    Also, I really enjoy Susan Misner as an actress, she's been great in many things now and she was well cast as Joan here. But, um, she's in this basically musical and we're not going to see her dance? Say it ain't so.

    I only knew her from "The Americans", too - but I have looked up some of Joan McCracken's appearances on YT, and maybe she'll recreate one of those in a flashback.  The real McCracken presents as shorter and more powerfully built than Misner, though.

    • Love 3
  7. On 3/16/2019 at 8:48 PM, seltzer3 said:

    Alvin is the head judge for Masterchef Canada.  The other asian guy, has been a guest judge for Masterchef Australia.  Really weird seeing both of them in a different setting.

    Like most sane people I FF through TV commercials, but I could have sworn I saw a flash of Christina Tosi in the first break, too.  And the Web page for Ed Lee's flagship doesn't mention TC, but does mention that he is currently a guest judge on Masterchef.  Perhaps they are all blending into one.

  8. 9 hours ago, bravofan27 said:

    However, she later clarifies that her crab is canned, and she clearly says, "All I have is this canned crab."

    My guess was that (like ATK) she considers both the actual "tin" cans and the processed refrigerated crab meat in the little tubs found in many supermarkets to be "canned". 

    • Love 6
  9. Nice shots of the garden, BTW, considering they were filming for like two months.  I think either they found something even more miraculous than Miracle-Gro or they came back a few months later to take some shots.  They're running out of time to use the garden in a challenge, maybe that was just another idea that didn't pan out.

    I also noticed that once again they didn't use any footage of civilians reacting to the food. 

    • Love 3
  10. I thought this episode sucked and Eddie was robbed.  I hatewatch Food Network Star for making their chefs bend their cooking to fit a story, because I only care about the food and don't give a FF on a RD about the story.  They've done plenty of stupid things but I always thought of TC as above that until this season.  Then they doubled down on it on LCK.

    • Love 8
  11. 1 hour ago, Eulipian 5k said:

    Ali was once refused service with a "I'm sorry we don't serve Negroes" His rejoinder was "That's okay, I don't eat them!".

    That was Dick Gregory, but it's still cool that they are going to the Ali center, one of the major attractions in Louisville.

    • Useful 1
    • Love 3
  12. This sat on my DVR until last night when we finally had 3 hours to sit and watch it.  I hadn't kept up so didn't know it was the dress rehearsal until the first break.  I don't regret watching it at all - all the snipes above may be valid but I got into it over the course of the show.  I was mostly disappointed at the American Idoling of some of the songs and the audience's reaction to it.  The sound design was super-spotty and I was glad I had CC on.  But I for one really liked the overall stage design and camera work - I thought it was a refreshing take on the only other version I've seen (the OC film). 

    • Love 1
  13. 22 minutes ago, goldil said:

    Yeah, there were plenty of crowd shots that showed the upper bowl was all but empty and it looked like some of the top rows in the bottom bowl were empty as well. 

    All of the top level was empty, there were people in sections 32-34 and 13-11 below, plus all the sections in the grey lower level behind the area marked Stage below.  The judges were to the front of the Stage area

    seating-fullhouse2-ce8d6f60bb.png

    • Useful 4
    • Love 3
×
×
  • Create New...