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Enough time has past where there's enough people for me to remember who is who. I'm glad the group seem to really have bonded as they were a little stiff which each other the first few episodes. This is a little different than other "All-Star" seasons, since as a viewer I'm not familiar with like 80% of them. Generally, a new season's cheftestants come in guns-a-blazin' acting like college freshmen with their first taste of independence - just excited and roaring to go, and their energy is palpable for me as a watcher. "All-Star" season have a more been-there-done-that attitude. Seniors waiting to get on with it, but I'm more familiar with the personalities, so I'm okay with them being reserved. What am I saying? I don't know. I guess it took me a while to warm up to this group.
Team challenges plus challenge-forced food preparation limitations are more miss that hit for me, so this was a meh episode, personally. I'm not a cook by any stretch of the imagination, but even I could put some caviar on a hardboiled egg and call it a day. Speaking of Canadian Dale, I'm not seeing what some of you are seeing. He seems like a good-natured, affable sort of fellow. Someone above called him a villain, I don't know where that is coming from exactly. If you want to see ultra-competitive, go watch Begonia during Last Chance Kitchen.
I think last week's results really shook German Tom, so he was overcompensating this challenge. He got in his own head (where Tom Colicchio lives rent free) and wanted to prove he's good enough to be there, and that didn't work in his or his team's favor.
Sorry to see Potato Girl pack her knives, but that dish she made was "challenging" at best.
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5 hours ago, MBayGal said:
For a long time, I thought Logan put his people up to faking this to stress out the siblings who were going against him about the sale.
now I'm picturing a J. Walter Weatherman life lessons moment
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not sure if it was pointed out before, but with all the phone calls, I was paying attention for Apple's "no bad guy" rule about who gets to use an iPhone. Apparently The Roy kids and Greg (much to my chagrin) are good, but Tom and Gerri are bad guys according Apple.
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I watched this after working my third 15 hour shift in a row with 2.5 hours of sleep, so I was half asleep watching/fast-forwarding.
I pretty much stopped watching drag race after the abominable All-Stars 5 season when Ru was laughing at Shea's "drag" Flavor Flav like Miranda Hobbes laughing at a Che Diaz routine. I don't like Shea, but I'm not going to pretend she's untalented. Some of her looks are upper echelon, top-tier drag (her ode to her grandmother might be my favorite look of the season) but after that I don't like her.
Long-story short, I came back to watch Raja and Jinkx and I'm happy they both managed to show how truly talented they both are.
I don't mind tricks and stunts when lipsyning, but Raja was on another level while Yvie was like a magician pulling any old thing out of her hat. Raja just owned both of those tunes.
Again I was exhausted and just wanted to get it over with, so the last song being a Katy Perry made me fast-forward through the whole thing. It looked like Monet beat Jinkx in the battle but Ms. Monsoon was so far ahead of the competition, she still won the war. (I also don't think much of Monet - everything about her is just so obvious. On the C.U.N.T. scale, it's 6.5s across the board.)
It was great to see Jaida. meh to everyone else. Maybe I'll be back for an All-Stars with the messier winners.
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I skipped the tic tac brunch because I can't take eight interviews with RuPaul's third rate Oprah-isms.
The only performance where I felt anything was Rajas. The rest were fine. I just wish the variety show aspect was more America's Got Talent and less American Idol.
My two least favorite won. eh.
No runway?
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This episode taught me that it would be fun to be Dolly Parton for a day
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I was worried the speeches would devolve into one of those 'talk to your 5-year old self' thing they've done before finals, but they were all pretty good. Surprisingly, I think I liked Trinity's speech the best.
Ru had some interesting looks this episode. The werkroom look was much different than her usual colorful suit, which was a nice change of pace. I can only assume her runway look was inspired by the graduation challenge, since it looked like an ugly prom dress - but she made it work.
This is somewhat blasphemous, but I didn't like Raja's runway choice. I love the concept, but the execution was off. The magazine aspect was kinda lackluster and the dress what over-the-top, which is fine, but it came off messy and not in a good way. I did love her lip-syncing ensemble. She looked like a million bucks.
The more I looked at Shea's outfit, the more I like it. For a gardening inspiration, it grows on you.
Speaking of Shea, she once said something about Alexis Michelle, where she could walk down the street and see 100 other Alexis Michelles, and that's how I feel about Monet.
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Good enough little episode after the high the was Snatch Game.
The Vanna White challenge was kinda meh, to be honest. She was arguably the Pamela Anderson of her day, like some sort of 80s Hawaiian Tropic girl-next-door vibe, so I was expecting big shoulders and bigger blonder hair, I guess. None of the looks were bad, but none of them blew my hair back either. If I didn't know it was Vanna White, I might have guessed Miss Piggy was the influence or I don't know Kathleen Turner or Dallas/Dynasty, if I was stretching. Oddly enough, if someone told me that after seeing Yvie Oddly, I would've been, yeah I can totally see it now, so I guess she did the best at matching her aesthetic to the challenge, oddly enough.
The second challenge had a lot of room for creativity, and a few of them really rose to the occasion. Jinx's Baby Jane Fonda was really good, Jaida's was gorgeous, but Shea's was confusing to look at, and Raja's look was 99.7% Olivia Newton John and 0.3% John Waters, which is the reason she was kept out of the top 2. To be fair, Trinity's look wasn't all that much more inventive. She was basically a drag 'queen'
I'm shocked to say I like Monet's Irish Dancing Queen (not a fan of hers), but it was well constructed and clean. I have even less experience sewing than Jinx, so Jaida's, Raja's, and Trinity's looks were all so impressive in the amount of time they had to create.
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So happy we didn't get the lesser Snatch Game of Love. A really strong showing overall.
- There isn't anything about Jinx that hasn't already been said. Snatch Game Perfection
- Kudos to Raja for bringing two strong characters. I'm not familiar with Madame, but the look alone killed it, and she really brought the essence of Diana Vreeland, someone I love, love, love, love, to the stage. Her runway look was great, as usual.
- Trinity's Luci(fer) was hilarious. I might rewatch just to take the whole look in, again. Another strong showing with Leslie Jordan.
- I don't really know any of the tiktok/insta celebs, so some of Shea's and Yvie's choices didn't really resonate with me. Plus they weren't that funny - not bad, but not strong enough to overcome my knowledge gap.
- I want Jaida Essence Hall to do well. I just really like her. She's not as seasoned as some of the other queens, so that might part of the issue. Her runway look was really good, so that's a plus
- I'm not Monet's biggest fan (or smallest fan... or a fan) but her runway makeup and hair was stunning.
- The Vivienne had a strong showing all-around. I especially liked her runway look.
- Who's left? I think that's it. Anyway, I'm glad I signed up for Paramount + to watch this season. I came for Raja's runways and Jinx's hijinks and so far I'm getting all that I want and more.
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22 hours ago, vteal said:
I would watch that! How fun would that be to follow a matchmaker around? Different story every episode built in. And more Rose with the fabulous clothes!
ABC used to have a show decades ago called Cupid that had a similar sort or premise (other than the main character thought he was actually Cupid). I used to love that show, but I don't think it lasted a full season
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9 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
"Trickery" was part of a Jeopardy! clue this past week.
Perhaps you are a watcher and the term snuck into your psyche through osmosis? 🤔😉That may very well have been possible. I'm usually cleaning while Jeopardy is on in the background
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12 hours ago, luvthepros said:
Kindly remind me......what camera trickery do you speak of?
I don't think "trickery" is the right word, but mostly how certain scenes were filmed. Something like how the camera would pan and circle around Lenny when he was calling Midge out after his set on stage, instead of doing like a sitcom-y back-and-forth camera cut for reaction shots. It just made it seem more intimate. Like most things, I don't know what I'm talking about, but so often this show's camera work really helps elevate it and I generally don't know how to properly communicate that.
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First off, eight episodes is not a season. Quality wise, it felt like they were finally getting in a good groove after a rollercoaster start.
- I'm happy they gave Shirley a scene she can act in with Abe. I know the character is meant to be abrasive and is there for comic fodder, but I always thought there was more she could do as an actress, and she really came through.
- Susie's second line being a clothesline was amusing. Plus, the one mafia guy mentioning how the the woman on the other end of the clothesline's boss "paints houses" for them is a sly nod to the mafia, which is amusing in its own demented way.
- I'm never not amused by the sheer ambivalence to child raising on this show, but what's up with Archie and Imogen's young ones? Archie working at the club at night and presumably still has his day job, and now Imogen working days as a personal assistant to Abe, who I imagine is very needy, like where are the children? I don't think they're even school age. I know they had to come up with some excuse to have Archie and Imogen do something on the show, but they could just be friends that occasionally hang out.
- The chock-full-of-whimsy strip club setting was a fun detour in the life of Midge, but it's time to move on. Goodbye Boise, we hardly knew ye.
- I have nothing to add that hasn't already been said about Luke Kirby's Lenny Bruce performance. Good stuff as usual.
- Between Susie's mafia connections, Mei's shady underground family, and The Matchmakers, a lot of interesting parties intertwined with the lead characters. I wonder if they'll all interact next season.
- It's a shame this show is ending after next season. It's finally starting to feel, for me at least, something more substantial. At the beginning, it came off as a premium-cable Gilmore Girls where the Palladinos were finally allowed to say fuck, but this season has been a bit more dramatic and the show is all the better for it.
- I don't know the first thing about camera trickery other than knowing when I like it. This episode - I liked it.
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- Max Medina still has that helmet of hair after all these years. Good for him
- I like everything about the show, but the main characters at this point. They are all so self-entitled. It's like Rory Gilmore: The College Years. I get that it's just a tv show, and I'm just along for the ride, but at some point the character flaws become hard to ignore. The whole pseudo-wedding crashing was just a plot contrivance to get to the bathroom scene so Midge can feel better about herself and that's fine, but is that the appropriate setting for that conversation? The answer is no. And all the bullshit with messing up the floral decor and knocking the tray of food over, (which would have caused a much bigger commotion, in real life, but whatevs) was just petty nonsense. It's all played for laughs, but it's hard to laugh along with characters you don't really like in the first place. That probably sounds harsher than I feel, in general, but this season, they are really getting on my nerves. Except for Rose - she's the worst.
- Wait, Rose might be the second worst. Does Mei have any redeeming qualities? Imagine being married to that nuisance for the rest of your life. She's meant to be quick-witted and funny, and she just comes off tiresome.
- Ethan is in kindergaten? Ethan looks like he's about to get his driving permit.
- Now that they pretty much confirmed Suzie's sexuality last episode, I guess they'll just have her and Sophie in some sexless odd couple relationship for the rest of their days. It'll be platonic, because anything beyond that would be out of character, but that's that.
- I assumed it would eventually be revealed that Reggie made the call to get rid of Midge, and it would turn out Shy had nothing to do with it, to make him seem like a helpless good guy, but it's actually much sadder. Now he has no one in his life he cares about, and this Midge comes to his sham wedding to tell him they aren't even friends. Rough night
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I enjoyed this episode more than the first two, but I watched those two back-to-back, so it was kinda hazy. I also just finished helping my mother pick out a dress for her to wear to my aunt's funeral, so the funeral scene with Jackie and all that hit me a little harder than it normally would, I imagine.
- There was a nod to Gilmore Girls where Suzie was walking down the street right before entering her apartment, and "My Little Corner of The World" was playing. That song played at the end of the pilot and last episode of Gilmore Girls where it was just Lorelai and Rory enjoying their time together. I guess Jackie and Suzie were their own pseudo-family (albeit slightly more dysfunctional)
- How old is Midge and Joel's son supposed to be? Like I get child actors play younger, but he seems awfully big for his age. I assume he's like six or seven in the show, but he could be ten in real life.
- The whole strip club subplot feels kinda one-note at this point. I guess it helps limit set pieces since this whole thing was shot during covid times, so traveling would have been an issue for shooting, possibly. To me, it feels like the whole season so far has an intangible heaviness that earlier seasons didn't have. I get why, but it is perceivable.
- I don't pay all that much heed to Midge's parents because I find both of them rather odious, but Joel's parents have yet to wear out their welcome with me.
- With Midge anchored to the strip club, and Jackie M.I.A., maybe Suzie will be more hands on at The Gaslight, which could lead to some character growth for her.
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TL;DR Don't piss off your boss
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And Just Like That, it's over... for now. Good enough episode. It definitely felt lighter than the beginning of the season, which is a definite plus.
- Apparently Poo-Che has to go now. They're home planet needs them. Honestly, seeing Che walking towards a stage gave me such anxiety of what was to come, but I will say they're a much better singer than they ever were a comedian.
- I can only hope next season Miranda is given the Samantha treatment and only appears via text from LA. God I hate what this series has done to her. Also, her dye job looked like shit. Herself, her homely son, and Che can stay gone. Oh, and was Miranda always this obsessed with Carrie? She came off so needy.
- Carrie's finally doing exactly what she should've been doing at the beginning of the series with hosting her own "podcast." Figured it wouldn't work out with the teacher dude longterm. It was a nice rebound relationship post-Big, but the actor reminded me of Berger. Speaking of Berger, the post-it note breakup is still worse than death, Carrie.
- Charlotte's over-the-top storylines continue unabated. I don't mind. She's basically become the comic relief of the show. Rock behaving like a 13 year old, so that checks out.
- The dream sequence was edited well enough, but the whole Paris thing seemed like it could've been done on a soundstage. It didn't really move me in any way.
- I called the Samantha meetup earlier, but that was as obvious as the "podcast" producer hookup.
- I still believe they should've waited to kill off Big until this season finale episode. Sex and The City was about single women and this should've been about married women. Charlotte - married with kids, Carrie - married with no kids, Miranda - married empty nester/possibly open marriage. That would require nuance and quality writers, which feels like asking for too much. Plus enough time could pass between seasons where it didn't have to feel so maudlin. Season 2, Carrie - widowed.
- whatever, I'll be back to swallow down the swill
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last scene will be Carrie taking the Chunnel from France to England to reunite with Samantha as some sort of insincere cliffhanger
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I think that was the first episode I really enjoyed. I mean other than having my weekly dose of Cynthia Nixon character assassinating Miranda Hobbes, but that's a given at this point.
- Anthony's reaction to the Holocaust denier was pitch perfect. First thing I've laughed out loud at this entire series. (lookin' at you, Che)
- the whole world of tampons is a mystery to me, but Charlotte's tutorial felt in character. Kristen Davis tends to play the character really broad at times (maybe it's because of the writing) so it was fine. It is weird she herself, didn't feel her own period in that painter's outfit, but that seems to be a thing on this show. One week it was projectile vomiting, the next week it's Penis! Penis! Penis!, and this week it's period blood. I'd go back and rewatch the other episodes to recall that week's shock value, but I don't want to really watch this show over again.
- The Che/Miranda hallway scene was painful. I don't know what the hell either one was talking about with the whole rules/no rules/non-heteronormative relationship bullshit either one was going on about. I literally said "Fuck off, Miranda" at least two times this episode.
- It was nice to finally see the POC characters interact for once. They almost felt important instead of plot contrivances for the main trio.
- I really like Seema. I can see why men wouldn't want to stay with her longterm, because she's kinda full of herself, but I'd go dancing with her. Plus, I'm the same way about my birthday. I don't like making a big deal about it, but I will go out with a close friend without them even knowing.
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5 minutes ago, Tattooeddancer said:
Miranda: "I didn't blame him or make him feel bad!"
what was going through my head at that line
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Cynthia Nixon should have starred in a show about a woman going through a late-in-life sea change that had her leaving a successful full-time career and divorcing her husband for a queer woman of color and the fallout that caused for herself and everyone around her. It could have even been called And Just Like That.
Unfortunately, this is a followup to a series that's been going on since last century with established characters with personalities, character traits, and temperaments. This version of Miranda Hobbes is fucking nuts. I don't even blame Cynthia Nixon entirely for this turn. The writers are simply abysmal. I don't know why, but the conversation between Carrie and Charlotte taking on the phone in the bathroom just totally felt like the writers using these characters as avatars for their own overt machinations. And I'm totally fine with the stories they're trying to tell, they just aren't competent enough to write them.
Che came off as the reasonable one in this episode. They're still not funny, but at least somewhat sensible.
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Aye yai yai. This show. How many more episodes? First off, Carrie's apartment has its own microclimate where four seasons pass in the span of 3 months, apparently. Secondly, who made the choice to have the title come across the screen like some 90s movie of the week? It's never not jarring. Thirdly, I don't have a thirdly. I don't even like the word thirdly.
My computer must've overheard my tv because "Che Diaz" was trending on twitter when I started watching. I got a lot more laughs out of those tweets than I did in any episode up until this point. I didn't realize how much Che was despised outside of this board. It simply confounds my brain how unfunny Che is. One woman at the school benefit talked about watching their comedy special 10 times. WHAT?!?!? Like, the original Sex and The City wasn't necessarily my sense of humor, but it had a wit and cleverness in writing that came off as an original voice in its time. This new show's writing is bad, bad, bad. This weird reliance on awkward comedy, like projectile vomiting and shitting-your-pants hijinks is just so charmless. That along with the low energy, plodding editing makes it this that much harder to want to like.
Another episode where the newbies are simply there as plot contrivances. Oh look, Seema just so happened to have signed Carrie up for dating apps and then got switched out for Anthony as the fourth because we gotta get him in for some reason. Charlotte's pointless "sorry, not sorry" storyline intermingling with LTW was straight-up filler. Who's left? Oh yeah, Che. That's enough of that. Dr. Naya and the never-ending pregnancy talk. It just keeps going on interminably. Her story would have made a good single episode of some sort of anthology series, which is probably a better vehicle for a Sex and The City revival. Carrie as the host of a podcast, a la Frasier Crane, and each episode focuses on a guest or call-in or a cohost and each person can cross paths with each other or OG cast members in integral and natural ways. Instead we got the third movie stretched out into a season. Oh well.
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Oh boy, I was eating dinner when that Che/Miranda flashback came on and ugh. I was not prepared.
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I can't quit even if I want to at this point.
- I don't mind the character Anthony taking a seat with the girls at lunch, but this was Mario Cantone smiling from ear to ear because he's excited to be one the four and it's like could you at least act like you're a professional.
- not enough Seema. spinoff Seema and the City
- too much Che. I'm pretty sure I'd like her 50% more if they didn't make her character a comedian. She sucks at standup AND every time the show has Miranda yucking it up it's even more annoying. And there's nothing I can add to the Miranda/Che kitchen debacle that hasn't already been said. She has diverticulitis, so now she gets to be overbearing. sure, okay, whatevs.
- I guess since 3 months have passed, Miranda's lecture course ended, so that's the end of Dr. Wallace??? Overall, not a great episode for the newbies.
- Rock is the type of stupid name you'd expect from a 12 year old. I also get why Rock would be more comfortable letting the world know before they're own parents (especially if Charlotte was one of your parents).
- the Samantha tease with the original theme music made me just miss the original show dynamic all the more. The texting was light and breezy and fun. What a concept
- I'm just getting mentally prepared for the sage advice from Brady's teenage girlfriend to Miranda about marriage and relationships that I'm sure will not come off condescending and patronizing.
- Anything else happen? probably. Anything else worth discussing? not really
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S05.E01: Go Forward
in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
I almost turned this off in the first five minutes. Have you ever eaten so much of something that it makes you never want to see it, taste it, smell it ever again? Well, I've had my fill for a lifetime of Amy Sherman Palladino's patented genius scion child. Also, to the actress playing Esther, that's not how a New Yorker pronounces Florida.
Everyone seems so much older this season, it almost makes Ethan look age-appropriate.
I just watched this right after Succession, and the guy who plays Frank on that show plays Gordon Ford's announcer on this show which was a fun juxtaposition. Speaking of Succession, I think Mrs Maisel probably could have ended after four season, too. I just feel like filming during Covid sent this show on an entirely different trajectory than where it was initially headed, and it's been off since the beginning of last season. I'm not going to quit watching at this point, but it just a whole different vibe than what I liked about earlier seasons - not bad, just different.