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Did you mean that to be about Patrick Ball? If so, I think theater is the answer.

Yes, and I guess I read the person as some annoying person who was going for internet fame with atrocity videos.

Could be wrong, but I thought it was because Langdon had taken them from/not given them to that guy.

Love The Dish with Kish and Last Chance Kitchen, but I like the latter as a place in fact for last chances. Bringing on a random person who was not on the show itself first was not a good part of last season for me (though that chef was talented), and I don’t think it’s going to be any better with there being two.

I agree that Dr. Santos's drug radar would have to be extraordinary to figure this all out. I suspect there's going to be a backstory. But getting Dr. Langdon out of there immediately is what's best for patient safety, legalities be damned. And that's what Dr. Robby would think, so the writing seems character-true in that respect. Also, even if Dr. Langdon were stealing meds for his wife (he isn't), that would be terrible! There's a great and terrifying podcast in the world (called The Retrievals) about a real-life nurse who took anesthesia from women undergoing gynecological procedures, leaving them to feel incredible pain. There are many possible consequences that could follow from a health worker's addiction. Get him out of there! (Even if I liked him, which I did.)

I wondered that, too, about Alysse and Ronnie. I think I decided in the end that it was about the tragic loss of your colleague--about the strength of work friendships. Alysse's vigil would still be moving but in that way. I felt a bit upset that it was Ronnie who died. Too much of a "kill your gays" trope, or really a "kill your non-binary friends" trope. The queer charcter is too often a Trekian redshirt.

Hannah was as horrible as ever, but telling the guys she looked like a grenade was perhaps not Nick’s finest moment.

One of the things the books and show are good about is the pull of what you were born into, the power of that provinciality. It’s hard to leave because you don’t have money or resources, because there’s no place better for you (Alphonso), or because there’s a strange comfort in knowing the place you’re from, even if it’s awful. It can feel like you fit there. In the books, it has always felt to me as if Lila fits and resents Lenu for being able to leave, which is why (partly why) she pulls her back.

Does Jack Lowden not play River and the doppelganger, who is just made up to look more mousy as doppelganger/JL than as River/JL?

I didn't find Jon boring, which makes me doubt that particular conspiracy theory. And I did find Andy so. Jeff Probst's loud praise of Jon as a storyteller also makes me think they'd have liked him to stay, too. I thought Jon was smart and funny and, as someone said above, appealingly self-deprecating, which survivor contestants almost never are (at least genuinely). Franny and Matt were genuinely self-deprecating and charming in being so, but those are the only ones I can think of. I'm on the side of someone else above (forgive me for not combing back through!) who suggested that the podcaster/radio hosts/thirsters who want the kind of minor celebrity lives one gets after Survivor didn't want Jon around taking the attention.

I do remember Jeremy but there were others on his season (Kwame Onwuachi, Karen Akunowicz, Isaac Toups, Marjorie Meek-Bradley of bread-making fame) who were more striking and memorable as chefs and as personalities. Philip Frankland Lee, too, though not particularly in a good way (🙃).

Best wishes to Shirley!

I’m so sad about this. I liked her a lot on tv—something always so fun about her hair, her clothes, her presence—and I have loved for years one of her recipes. “Wedding chicken.” My boyfriend just made it. She’s a chef who affected our table. https://www.foodnetwork.com/fnk/recipes/wedding-chicken-7151729.amp

Agree. And I loved the way it used (assumed) our knowledge as viewers of two seasons of the show. It had all the more power because all that work was behind it. Beautiful.

The latest episode of The Watch podcast includes an interview with Gail Simmons, who said Danny’s was unquestionably the best meal, that his dessert was the best dish of the night, and that the editing exaggerated their quibbles about his dishes while missing things they didn’t like about Dan’s food.