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caitmcg

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  1. I assume it will be like last season, no Karlie, but also no host. Instead, Christian and the judges variously introduced the challenges and guest judges, and the judges announced the weekly winners and cuts.
  2. This was a particularly glaring cut, given that later in the episode, Shelagh refers to and quotes Lizzie saying “if you go where love is, that’s where life is.” I wondered at the time whether I’d missed something. Turns out I did, but only because it wasn’t there. Netflix shows what airs on PBS. The only ones we see broadcast in the US without cuts are the Christmas specials, apparently.
  3. If you squeeze the tomatoes and strain out the liquid through cheesecloth or a very fine strainer like a chinoise (versus puréing them) you end up with tomato water — clear like that, but with some tomato flavor. Buddha then steeped it with lemongrass, it sounded like from the description.
  4. He mentioned both a purée and a garnish, so perhaps the latter would have added some textural contrast.
  5. At first, I read eeyore as eyesore, and was slightly flummoxed because, whatever else, Olly Rix is certainly conventionally attractive.
  6. I think it was just his oddball cheffy variation.
  7. Honestly, I’d rather a dumb movie tie-in on TC than their being forced to cook with some brand of mediocre prepared food. The teams' strategy of focusing on claiming proteins showed how much they’re all stuck in that flesh-as-centerpiece mindset, whereas the all-vegetables yellow team had to be more intentional, and it paid off. All three of those dishes looked and sounded delicious. Buddha keeps proving himself an exception to the TC rule that making a dessert is high risk, with little chance of reward. He’s probably the most confident about his sweets of any contestant I can recall, but apparently with good reason.
  8. My sympathy only goes so far, given that he apparently hadn’t even tried to have it checked out. He told his son to go to the working children's clinic, but he won’t go to the doctor himself. Except my own Catholic grandparents, who managed to have five evenly spaced over the course of around a dozen years. My mother told me she considered my father’s mother highly disciplined, and figured she must be, given that!
  9. Netflix in the US is releasing the 2020 docu-series Miriam Marogolys: Almost Australian. Here’s a review in the Guardian. Apparently she did a similar show i the US, and per IMDB, she has one coming about Scotland.
  10. Minka Kelly did return for an episode in Season 4, though, where a major plot point is Tim and Lyla reuniting while she’s in town, and it pretty much puts a button on their relationship. When Lyla leaves, their goodbye is understood to be her having moved on from life in Dillon and from Tim, so I was okay with her not coming back in the finale from a story standpoint. I’ve been listening to both Clear Eyes, Full Hearts with Derek Philips and Stacy Oristano (Billy Riggins and Mindy Colette Riggins) and It’s Not Only Football with Scott Porter, Zach Gilford, and Mae Whitman from the beginning. CEFH has reached the beginning of Season 5, and they have had a lot of guests, both behind-the-scenes people and actors (main players like Adrianne Palicki, Gaius Charles, Taylor Kitsch, Jesse Plemons, and Zach Gilford, and also a lot of folks playing parents, coaches, etc.). They also answer fan questions. It’s been cool hearing about the behind-the-scenes aspects and learning about the backgrounds of some of the more minor characters/local actors. INOF is pretty chatty, though Scott Porter tends to try and rein them in a bit. So far, I’m finding the behind-the-scenes info interesting, especially Scott Porter's contributions. When they’ve had guests, Mae Whitman usually sits it out (I assume so there aren’t too many voices). She is there as the “super fan,” though she does have some ties via being in Jason Katims's next show, Parenthood, and she and Zach Gilford playing spouses in Good Girls. I like her as an actor, but she bugs a bit on the podcast because she tends to ramble on, and she has not managed to train herself to avoid constantly inserting “like” into her speech. I’d listen to CEFH over INOF.
  11. But last week's LCK (the afternoon tea that Dale won and Begoña lost) was part of the main show, so everyone watching saw it.
  12. Perimenopause at that age is certainly possible, but pregnancy is not at all a stretch.
  13. Fred certainly proved himself a liability to Nonnatus House (and Dr. Turner’s maternity home and surgery), not because he’s not a qualified repairman or because he has Reggie assist him, but because he blithely and unthinkingly spouted off all of Nonnatus’s business to the BOH president after he introduced himself as such. Fred only looked a a bit abashed when he looked at the man’s card after the fact. Conversely, I have a friend who became pregnant at 44 (unplanned), and she said when she missed a couple of periods at that age, her first thought wasn’t pregnancy, it was perimenopause.
  14. Sarah Snook is pregnant, so they may have written it in, knowing she’d be showing by the later episodes.
  15. Yes, and in fact, Downton Abbey frequently portrayed this.
  16. I like coffee and cardamom in browbies
  17. She was barely surviving, which was the entire reason she married him.
  18. I mean, most ideas Greg has come up with on his own have been pretty hare-brained, so while his MO since S1 has been (ineffectual, to say the least) self-preservation, at best he’s failed upward. Plus, the Tom and Greg show is Succession's comic relief, hence a shrewd Greg doesn’t track. Connor: Truer words…
  19. I can easily see working tart green apples into a Thai-inspired dish, and even peas, but cheese would be a bit of a stretch.
  20. But it’s still a few minutes less than an hour, with time for the same “behind the scenes” repeated each week, so that doesn’t really track.
  21. I can attest to this fact. My very favorite grilled cheese is a nutty aged cheddar or Gruyère with chopped kimchi and thinly sliced crisp apple or Asian pear on whole-grain or sourdough bread. The kimchi works brilliantly here, but it’s really key to use an aged cheese with some character.
  22. But Luciana made the comment specifically about traditional pub food when she first came to London, not about restaurant food in general. She basically said the pub food was not good then (nineteen years ago) and had come a long way in quality.
  23. Alan Sepinwall has a a glowing review in Rolling Stone.
  24. The episodes on Netflix in the US are the same as what airs on PBS, so yes, they are the edited versions. To my knowledge, the only ones that don’t get the PBS edit are the Christmas episodes.
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