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7 minutes ago, dleighg said:
unless they have a gap between the end of the main season and the finale.
I meant until the contestants who are going into the finale (before they do the inevitable last elimination at the finale destination). So between Kaleena being eliminated and the end of the show in situ in Milwaukee, she's undoubtedly there regardless.
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4 hours ago, ProudMary said:
When Kaleena walked into the kitchen and announced that she would not be competing, I wondered if contractually she was able to do so. When she raised her mental health as an issue, I assumed that must be one of the "outs" in the contract
I know it's not entirely clear what happened with David Murphy not competing on LCK, but Tom did tweet in response to an inquiry that he opted out, so perhaps it's not actually a contractual requirement, but something most of them want to do just to have the opportunity to get back in.
4 hours ago, ProudMary said:I was somewhat surprised that Tom didn't give the win to Rasika
I wasn't surprised at all, and not because of any potential strategizing by the show. As soon as Rasika said the seafood would normally be cooked in the sauce but that she was doing it separately, I knew it was telegraphing an issue with the dish, and when she served it with the fish and shrimp just perched on top and not even in the sauce, it was clear to me her fate was sealed unless Kevin really screwed up. There was no way it would be a cohesive dish served that way.
1 hour ago, dleighg said:I'm just trying to figure out the logistics. Usually they do this right before the final-- I did notice that her hair was a lot longer. But they flew her back in only for her to say she wasn't doing it?
In general, I don't believe anyone departs right after being eliminated, they keep them in seclusion so it's not obvious outside how things are progressing. So in this second batch of contestants, they all are probably still stuck in a hotel in Wisconsin until close to the final anyway. It can't be more than a couple of weeks between her elimination and the determination of the final three or four (depending on how many they take into the finale destination), with eight now left and still presumably an episode where they axe two to make the numbers come out right.
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1 hour ago, Blackie said:
I noticed that this episode had a "disturbing scenes "warning before it started, I have only noticed that once before (not sure if they always do this on PBS and I just fast forward through).
They always have "This program contains mature content and may not be suitable for all viewers," but that's usually it, at least on my PBS station.
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47 minutes ago, Capricasix said:
’m not sure how long the eps on PBS are, but they’re considerably shorter than 58 minutes.
I checked the recording for this episode, and from beginning of theme music/opening (i.e. after previouslies and sponsorship ad) to "stay tuned for more" (i.e. before Masterpiece promo and final credits) was about 52 minutes. It seems as if the US edits lose somewhere between 2 to 4 minutes per episode. This season seems like the first where they've seemingly just chopped out entire scenes or substantial parts of them rather than little snips here and there that help with context. If it weren't for Badger's helpful posts, we'd have no idea why the nurses' wage campaign plot seemingly simply fell by the wayside, for instance, but we now know they chose to basically lose most of that entire story arc for the PBS broadcast.
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1 hour ago, Daff said:
I didn’t rewatch, but here’s what I think: Miss H met the young man while working together, became friends and met his family. They did things families do together and invited her along. More developed between them and it was his father’s family who insisted on adoption and found the adoptive family. When the boy became an adult, the adoptive family helped him to find his bio parents. I suspect that the biological paternal grandparents shared the slides with him and directed him to England and Miss H.
His family had nothing to do with it, and it wasn't clear he even knew of the pregnancy. Millicent told Phyllis that the widowed friend of her parents she lodged with sent her to "a place she knew" in Lahore, where adoption arrangements were made, and no one was the wiser.
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Here's my best tip for maximizing flavor any time you're baking something sweet that includes citrus zest: Before you combine the sugar with anything else, rub the zest into it until the sugar is damp and fragrant and starting to take on the color of the zest. This releases the citrus oil from the zest and coaxes a lot more flavor out of it than simply stirring it in. You can use your fingers to rub it into the sugar, or make even quicker work of it with a wire whisk or the paddle attachment of a stand mixer on low speed, if you're using the mixer anyhow,
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1 hour ago, AriAu said:
I am not sure why this needed to be a team challenge giving immunity to the the winning team-why not the 5 winners of the head to head are safe and the other 5 go to elimination?
There was no immunity; in fact, Kristen announced during the QF that immunity is off the table for the rest of the season.
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14 hours ago, Lassus said:Why, why, WHY were they able to drop BRATWURST and CHORIZO, and even PIEROGI, but they refused to use, even once, the term KIELBASA? "Polish sausage"? What am I not understanding? Help me, please, you're my only hope.
Well, there's also the fact that all kielbasa is Polish sausage, but not all Polish sausage is kielbasa.
12 hours ago, Lassus said:13 hours ago, Tess23 said:My love for Danny only grew larger when he side-eyed Laura and had a few well-chosen words about how shopping was going to go.
I also really like Danny, but whining about this immediately after you had just won $20,000 seemed kinda over-bitchy. It made me wonder if we're getting a pre-villain edit.
I don't really understand this critique, because the one thing has nothing to do with the other. Yeah, he won $20K personally in the QF, but should that mean he doesn't want a fair shot at doing well in the EC (or for anyone else on his team to also get one)? Last time he was on a team challenge with Laura, he was screwed over when they shopped and had use leftover produce from the others because of her insistence on using an outsize portion of the budget, so he was really looking out for everyone on the team (and not just himself) when he insisted that she not do it again. And it set fair parameters for all of them, considering that they were all doing dishes with similar centerpieces.
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Rasika started out so strong on TC, but she lost her mojo and her last two episodes on the main show, cooking middling-to-bad dishes, and it seems she couldn't get her head back in the game here, either.
Tom may have been scoring "runs" in this challenge, but as fast-moving as it was with a given time on the clock, it played more like basketball.
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4 hours ago, dleighg said:
I get why they have to do it, but it is so damn fake.
Especially the calling out of time, and time's up, when they're prepping for ECs, as if a random contestant is keeping the others on track. Just show us a close-up of the countdown clock the way they do when the rush is on to plate and serve.
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3 hours ago, Sarah 103 said:
I don't think it's as deep as symbolism. I think it's more like "Wow! We have multiple serious dark depressing dramatic storylines in this episode. We need a funny silly comedic subplot." That's where the turnips and turnip truck comes in, because it was a fun little sight gag.
And the comedic C plots (or D plots, on overstuffed CtM episodes) usually fall on Fred.
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3 hours ago, Orcinus orca said:
But, again, as horrendous as that behavior is/was, men got a pass way too often.
Would that the past tense were entirely adequate here.
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32 minutes ago, ProudMary said:
When they have a large number of people and they don't specifically introduce them, they usually have a chyron with the person's name and who they are professionally.
They did have a chyron at least for the woman who appeared at judges' table, Sophia Roe, with her business name, but it was so fleeting I rewound the DVR a few seconds when I saw it go by. So I assume there was one just as fast for the other guy, though I missed seeing it altogether.
You'd think they wouldn't be flying past or editing out so many little things with a 75-minute episode every week.
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50 minutes ago, OnMatchPoint said:
David Murphy got wind that he would be receiving a villain edit and declined to participate in LCK, so they had to recruit the closest backup (Soo being 45min south of Milwaukee).
Do you have a source for this intel? There's been a lot of wondering about conflicting accounts about why David Murphy didn't compete in LCK and whether the Soo twist was long-planned. Also, in recent seasons they've begun with 16, but this time they did not, and yet they brought two back in, so it's still an uneven number (for now)...
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13 hours ago, Quilt Fairy said:
I don't understand the Matthew situation, either. I know he wasn't a businessman like his father, and the tenement buildings were an issue, but the family obviously had personal wealth. And he managed to lose everything, just like that? To the extent that they need to live on Trixie's salary?
He was managing the family business (badly), and its board of directors relieved him of his position, therefore eliminating the income he earned from his job.
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6 hours ago, tv echo said:
(On Episode 1), the decision was made relatively quickly. It was obvious who had the weakest performance and it was the person who did not respond to our feedback. I feel bad, because I want everyone to succeed, but you could tell he was joking a little more than he focused on his food. I felt like it was a defense mechanism for the fact that he was overwhelmed by the experience. And in the end, neither of his dishes was very good.
That's pretty much how he (David "Hat Guy" Murphy) came across on the show.
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2 hours ago, Shermie said:
I hate how they wrote Lucille out because it made no sense to the character. Cyril and Lucille were a strong couple, clearly in love, and the minute they get married she takes off? No. I’d rather they killed her off right after her wedding, soap-opera style.
The Lucille departure has been handled badly, but I wonder if they didn't want to kill her off soon after her marriage, having previously done the same thing with Barbara.
Matthew was earlier complaining that Trixie was continuing to work, even as he knew the business was failing. How does that look now that her modest salary is their only household income? And of course we find out that not only is he only a leaseholder for his flat (not his fault if that's how the property's structured), he never signed the deed over to Nonnatus House. Trixie exerts her usual competence, and he's angry she embarrassed him by making it known he needs a job. Does anyone remember what his position was before he took over seeing to his father's properties in Poplar?
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On 4/22/2024 at 9:33 AM, buttersister said:
Soo could take his whole thing. But introducing him through the back door? I wonder if executive producer Padma would have had something to say about that? As in, how disrespectful.
Isn't Tom also an executive producer, though? And since he is the LCK judge, presumably he has an opinion, whether or not he has any real say,
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2 hours ago, Ancaster said:
Thanks @Bastet. I cross-posted I think, though it posted the whole URL (?) rather than a handy little "There's a thread" type phrase to click on like you had - I'm not tech savvy either!
You can use the little chain link icon in the top row (next to the quote mark) in the top row to create a link with text in your post if you want, rather than paste the UR: into your post.
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22 hours ago, Steph Sometimes said:
And finally, everything I (a Southern Californian) really know about supper clubs comes from this novel that I enjoyed and recommend - Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club.
I also liked this one. All of J. Ryan Stradal's novels concern families and their food-related businesses in the Midwest.
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48 minutes ago, buttersister said:
Manny has gone downhill since his mole. How do you screw up a tenderloin?
Manny had the tough beef, it was Kévin who vastly undercooked the tenderloin. When it was served to the judges, he said "medium rare," even as they only had to look at it to remark, "still mooing" (and it was apparently pretty much raw, at that).
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9 hours ago, dleighg said:
I forgot to add above, I thought that Rasika should have deferred to Michelle to make what she wanted, given that Rasika had immunity. I know that since Rasika is on a roll, it makes sense to have her do something strong for the team's sake, but Michelle hasn't been a slouch so far either.
And yet, they disliked Rasika's dish, because every component — the fish and both sauces — was very salty. I noticed that at Judges' Table, every time they showed Rasika, she had a kind of sour look. We didn't see them address her, but we know they edit way down for time, so I assume they told her her dish was kind of a fail for its saltiness. As it happens, Michelle's dessert, even with not enough pineapple (second thing she gave up for the team) was more successful with the judges.
4 hours ago, Rai said:I don't know why both chicken chefs went with katsu, but okay.
I think it was because, as Amanda said in a talking head, they both cook Japanese (or Japanese-inspired) food, so I assume they were both heeding Kristen's advice to "cook your food." Anyway, nice to see Amanda distinguish herself with a widely praised dish. She hasn't been very successful so far.
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46 minutes ago, CatWarmer said:
It was disappointing that all three moved to the second round of LCK, but I'll bet they planned all along to have Soo and one returnee win.
At the very least, it was obviously set up that two would return, regardless of how Tom worked to make it seem spontaneous.
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4 hours ago, AriAu said:
By the way, would Rashika have pulled out that Rasam (indian sauce that I had never heard of) if Padma had been there?????
I don't see why not, given that Rasika herself is Indian-American, and was cooking food that reflected her own regional (Tamil) heritage in an elevated way. She even said the rasam was her grandmother's recipe. She's probably at least as familiar with and competent at the cuisine as Padma.
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S21.E08: Restaurant Wars
in Top Chef
Eh, this is one of many ways RW is nothing like an actual restaurant. They're not expected to cater to (or even acknowledge) dietary preferences or restrictions, and no doubt one of the requirements for being a guest is a willingness to eat whatever is proffered. It would be folly to agree to appear as a guest diner if you're vegetarian or vegan because you'd know there is a better than good chance that you wouldn't actually be eating much of the food, whether it's RW or any other challenge.