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It’s not just Lindt. I’ve been watching, and almost all of the ingredients they use are in the original retail packaging, with the camera occasionally zooming in to highlight the brand names. I agree it’s interesting, and it’s taught me some Antipodean terms, like hokey pokey for honeycomb or sponge toffee and high-grade flour for bread flour (North America) or strong flour (UK).

I can recall a few instances in earlier seasons where there was something obviously in its original container where they’d covered the label with tape, too.

That’s Robin Hood flour, a Canadian brand. King Arthur doesn’t come in yellow bags.

Per CTM social media and press interviews, it’s not CGI, just fake snow.

Indeed, each library system sets its own borrow limits (depending on how many it will pay for). Mine is 10, up from 7 in pre-pandemic times because we only had electronic access for a while when the libraries were fully closed. The other library I belong to in an adjoining city allows even fewer. Same deal with Kanopy, the library video streaming service.

Just a caution about TV shows on Hoopla: each episode is a separate borrow, so it’s easy to run through your library’s monthly borrow limit fast.

Shortcrust pastry is your basic pie dough. French meringue: sugar beaten into egg whites Italian meringue: hot sugar syrup beaten into egg whites Swiss meringue: egg whites and sugar whisked to heat over a water bath, then beaten

They knew their families couldn’t come to England, but rather than have a long, drawn-out engagement until they could afford to travel to where their families are in the Caribbean to marry there, they decided not to wait and to have a wedding with their “found family” of church and work communities. (This decision was part of the regular season, do not discussed in the Christmas special.)

She was a bit in her cups even before upending the rest of the rum into the punch bowl, so no surprise she was hungover!

As far as I know, the Christmas specials are the one exception to the &@$#% editing for PBS. I think we get them intact.

I assume yes, since they haven’t said otherwise. Chummy continued on after marrying, and even went back part time at some point after having her son, as I recall.

Call the Midwife's social media says Season 11 will premiere on PBS March 20, 2022. (The Christmas special will air on Christmas Day.)

It doesn’t sound as if it was out of context, per se. Schulman used it to illustrate how intensely Strong gets into character, to the point of sometimes being ridiculously impractical, and Sorkin's upset at the fact that he didn’t include every counterpoint his replies included. This is not the first article to discuss how “method” Jeremy Strong is, or how intense he comes off, and it’s hardly the skewering his high-profile defenders are making it out to be.

I guess Henry was at a disadvantage there, since his had been only a few months earlier, when Britain was locked down so he had to cancel his party. Not much of a story to map onto a design.

On a similar not, the title of “Too Much Birthday” is a reference to a Berenstain Bears picture book. Plot summary from Google books:

It sounds as if they filmed the holiday. specials for 2020 and 2021 right after the regular seasons wrapped, so they would presumably have bubbled, but they’d only be there a few days. I think it was 21 for the new year of 2021, rather than it being a birthday of note as it is in the US, for national legal drinking age.

On the latter point, I think we’re definitely meant to forget about it. Lots of shows rejigger characters, or even recast them, after the pilot is picked up and it’s just – hand wave – water under the bridge.

How about chai tea.

I love that he put on a gold lamé blazer to do it, too.

Friends left Netflix in the US in 2020. It’s now on HBO Max, and Warner Brothers apparently isn’t renewing the license to Netflix in a lot of other markets (WB owns HBO Max). It’s happening a lot with shows owned by companies that have launched their own pay services. For instance, some AMC shows are now only on AMC's pay service, and I imagine others will leave Netflix when their current lease is up.

Ironically, the youngest person created the most sophisticated-looking showstopper by far, and also the one cake that both Paul and Prue said they’d want again. It wasn’t as complicated as Rahul's, but it was beautiful, and you can never go wrong pairing lemon and raspberries.

Not AZChristian, but yes, this episode is on Netflix as of today.

It was Elaine who exclaimed that she could tell it was Coral and Zayden's look because of the macrame and plastic belt buckle. Christian has really encouraged Coral to add her macrame in the last two challenges.

Crystelle made the candle out of crisped rice. I think it all had to be edible, even if it wasn’t actually going to be eaten.

How ironic that when Kendall was railing at Greg about asking Comfrey out, he told him to stop feeding on the family and expecting that they’d hand him everything, as if he’s not guilty of the same thing The Roy siblings are so entitled, and they've grown up with so much they don’t even realize they’re entitled. They’re all coming in at the top and expecting to be handed the keys to Logan's office. That’s also why Shiv was so offended when Logan suggested she work in company management for a couple of years before he’d give her the top position — it’s never once occurred to her that she doesn’t immediately deserve it despite having zero experience in a corporate leadership position. Yeah, Roman was particularly nasty this episode, especially to Shiv, but though Roman had actually put in sincere work crafting the Waystar proposal to buy the Skarsgard character’s company she had spent the whole run up to the moment he spoke to Lukas suggesting that he wasn’t competent to spearhead it, mostly so she could take credit for herself if they were able to make the deal work. And he’s so undermined in that family that when he’s up he overcompensates in the most extreme way. They’re all competing for daddy’s approval, and they never expect to have the rug pulled out from under them despite it happening again again. They’re all Charlie Brown to Logan's Lucy holding the football. I don’t think he’d have been as cutting in his comments about her gift or as unable to be even fake-gracious about it if he hadn’t been pissed off and frustrated about not finding his kids' gift. As someone else noted, their handmade gift was worth more to him than anything else because it expressed love, and in his misery, nothing else was going to give him any satisfaction that night.