aghst

I don't mean the particular goulash shown on the show, though it looked real good. Looked like that restaurant was out of the way, in some rural area which I'm unlikely to visit. Plus a Michelin star so pricey as well. I mean goulash in general, obviously popular dish in Eastern and Central Europe. I think I tried it in Germany or Austria and didn't find it to be memorable. So interested in trying it again. I didn't like Wiener Schnitzel too much either. That Orient Experience place seemed to have like 10 Euro launches (like starter and an entree). But it's kind of difficult to reach, not near the Grand Canal so you have to walk a bit from most high-traffic areas. That would probably be why they can keep prices low, even though they are technically in Venice, which has some of the highest rents in Europe.

But since he went outside of Venice, they could have covered more Venetian restaurants. OK, got flight booked to Venice in August, was going to mostly spend time in Trieste and Fruili VG and the Dolomites but may have to squeeze in an extra day or two in Venice. Here is the menu of foods and places he visits in this episode. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/stanley-tucci-searching-for-italy-restaurants-season-two-itinerary-origseriesfilms/index.html I know about cicchetti, though I'm not big on seafood, like the sea cicadas but I will seek out the baccala. Definitely will seek out the Orient Experience. Not sure Stanley liked the scartosso or the cone of calamari to go. I'd like to try the goulash, hopefully there's a place in Trieste because the restaurant they featured seems out of the way, as is the Dorona winery with the spaghetti dish the woman chef cooked up. BTW, anyone going to check out the Nomad show? Looks like they're trying to establish a Bourdain or Tucci for the younger set, the combo travelog/food exploration format created by Bourdain.

I think it would have been more effective if Barry just implied the threat to Gene’s son and grandson. Like take him aside and the. Look at both potential targets without verbalizing what would happen to them. But does Gene understand at this point that Barry is a professional killer, not just someone who killed Janice? He may want justice for Janice but does he understand that if Barry was caught it would be a death sentence? I thought there might be a small part of him which wouldn’t want to see Barry die. Also thought that when the crash occurred, Cousineau might go to check to see if Barry was all right, even if Barry abducted him and threatened to kill him. As for Barry’s solution, it shows he’s looking for ways to avoid killing Gene and his idea to get him a part harkens back to the first season when getting roles was everything to Gene and his students, as if Gene would be mollified by getting an acting job after all these years. I can see Gene getting into his minor role, being a ham and caring too much, rather than alternating between desire for vengeance and being terrorized. The angry and raging Barry seems so abrupt. He hasn’t been able to get jobs, either acting or contract killing, so he was in this state but he aced that audition and was far more convincing in getting Cousineau cast as well than last week, when Enriquito dismissed him easily for being so desperate. Of course Cristobal has a wife and kids back home. They’ve really fleshed out Noho’s story and found ways to intertwine Hank’s and Barry’s respective plots. If this acting job is a success, Barry is not going to want to get his hands dirty, especially since he has to keep Gene placated as well. But he’s going to rescue Hank because they’ve become friends. What happens to Sally will also have a huge bearing on Barry. Was funny how excited and effusive Natalie was about the Pam! Show, even though she’s working for Sally. But it seems notable that Sally didn’t dump Barry when he couldn’t get jobs and was in a poor mood even before he yelled at her. She had the upper hand in the relationship in season 2 but now that she’s got a big job, she’s more eager to please him? Still, she’s doing a show about domestic abuse and her live-in boyfriend shakes up the set by screaming at her and scaring the other cast and crew members? At some point Barry will be more invested in her success.

Though Toby kept going on about charming the pants off her repeatedly. What was that about? She said she wanted charm but didn’t want to be too close to husbands work because he might work too much?

They're common. A lot of these buildings are over 100 years old so they had to retrofit an elevator. Usually they're enough for 2 or 3 people or one people with some big suitcase. This is not just in Paris but all of Europe. Some buildings they can't easily install an elevator because they don't have a clear space where they can install a shaft from the ground floor to the top. I just stayed in a hotel in Lisbon which had an elevator going up to the 4th floor. But I had to go to the 5th floor for reception so I had to drag my suitcases up and down that last floor.

What a mess, they draw out this Sam and Juliette drama out. I understand why most of the cast is on this show, good looking young women who have no other means of making money. But Sam is suppose to be this rich scion so why is he on this show rolling his eyes repeatedly and playing this desperate guy? Juliette is attractive but does she really stand out versus other pretty young things who throw themselves at rich men? Must be all scripted right!

I wonder if they will mix in a lot of characters played by Kaley's friends doing cameos on the show. Maybe Margaret Cho and Alana Ubach are in that category, kind of like the later seasons of CYE had all these stars do an episode. The plots don't make sense but we get to see Kaley going to interesting places, getting into all kinds of shenanigans. Maybe that's the point of the show, though by the end of the season, we will see some growth, like she will probably dump Marco. But if they plan to continue the series, she's going to keep getting involved in intrigue, because that's part of the special sauce. So always life and death stakes swirling around our heroine.

Must be her thing, to always be in compromising positions. Her phone almost got her killed if it wasn't for Miranda Ex Machina -- even the show seems to acknowledge how absurd it is by having the character say those words. So no, she won't put the phone on silent. And speaking of expenses which she shouldn't be able to afford, how about all those international calls? She's in over her head, putting her friends in danger, as she's trying to help Megan.

Without knowing the locations of her work and where she's living it would be hard to say how many changes she would need to make on metro. There are also buses. But the inner arrondissements have several lines criss crossing because they fall in the middle of the individual metro lines. So more choices, like you could have two metro stations about the same distance away. But one of the metro stations may serve two lines instead of one so you can avoid a change in those stations.

It's quieter and you won't see as many tourists as in the inner arrondissements. So that may be more desirable for everyday life. There are certainly cafes and such but not as many of them. She cited the Bois de Boulogne, a big park area. My first visit to Paris I stayed in the 16th and I remember being warned not to go there at night. Other thing I remember were long metro rides to get anywhere. Trains became packed as you got closer to the center and most trains didn't have AC and still may not. If all she wanted to do was walk her dog in the park, there are plenty of nice parks even in busier areas. For instance, Jardin du Luxembourg is between the 5th and the 6th. Lot of people come there but there are always open benches and seats for people to sit for hours. There are also little playgrounds and other things for little kids to do, so it's both a neighborhood park and the site of the former Senate, so there's a grand palais with big water features.

Maybe I didn't notice it as much in previous seasons but the running theme is white people doing bad things, or just being inadequate in this case as the parents. You had the bad foster kids couple, two white women, in Sinterklaus. You had the white billionaire welshing on a bet of maybe $40-50k in The Old Man and the Tree. I think it was also a white guy who made a big deal about the woman who thought Darius was hitting on her at the party. The reparations episode with some white people being angry about personally having to pay in The Big Payback. You had the white roadie stealing Alfred's phone and causing a lot of turmoil in Cancer Attack. White Fashion was using the Central Park 5, with a poster showing 5 young black men around a young white woman, for which the white fashion designer was hiring Alfred to "end racism" by 2024. Then you had the white woman buying out the lease to put the Nigerian restaurant out of business so she could do a weak imitation of Nigerian food in her food truck. It also featured a Karen accusing Van of shoplifting -- she did steal. Then Trini 2 the Bone with the clueless and unhip white parents, who wanted to buy experiences for their son by hiring a certain type, like a "more metropolitan" nanny to replace Sylvia. So this season has been kind of a compendium of white people behaving badly. Now were previous seasons as obvious about white privilege? Maybe the only black characters behaving badly were the young black woman housing the white guy about reparations in the Big Payback, the cynical black activists looking just to get paid in White Fashion and Van stealing stuff. Though in White Fashion, Alfred wanting to just get free stuff and then stealing Earn's ideas about giving back to the black community wasn't a good look, nor was Darius being so hipster and wanting to telegraph it when he asked for Nigerian food makes him seem less genuine. Earn and Van scammed a free night at a plush hotel suite from gaslighting the accusatory Karen.

16th is further away from the places tourists visit. The HH presumably don't need to visit those places but they are the things which make Paris beautiful. The 7th, which is where the second house was, has street markets and lots of cafes, museums, a lot of river frontage, Champs de Mars and Esplanade des Invalides, a big open space. It also has a UNESCO office, which may be where she works. It's also closer to places where singles might frequent, though maybe she is going to take the advice of her co worker and use dating apps.

She said she spent 20 years to be able to do the job she has, which involves climate change I'm thinking maybe she works for a UN agency where she obviously works in English. But there aren't specific programs for climate change at universities. She said she worked in the Calgary oil and gas industry. Was that part of the 20 years? She either has a scientific background or some kind of administrative role running programs to mitigate climate change. But still not clear how the education or maybe industry experience she acquired in 20 years prevented her from having relationships. Plenty of people in demanding jobs have relationships, get married, start families. In the aftermath, they didn't show her walking her dog in the nearby parks. At one point, Parisians walking their dogs on the streets of Paris used to be a problem. Now as is the case everywhere else, the dog owners have to pick up after their dogs.

It seems they put some bought into the episode descriptions to make them short and oblique. More than once, they use “white people” as if they’re addressing race. Or last week when they had the white woman accuse Van of shoplifting. A couple of years ago, there was a lot of social media activity about instances of Karens calling the cops on a black birdwatcher in Central Park or black kids selling lemonade or black teens trying to use a community pool and so on. Turns on in some of the cases, Russian bots were amplifying some of these egregious cases, possibly to depress black voter turnout. In this case, the white characters, especially the kid, are sympathetic. They didn’t have to take Sebastian to the funeral. Sure they should be spending more time rather than outsource parenting, though they were already talking about replacing Sylvia with a Chinese nanny. But what are they saying, they shouldn’t have hired Sylvia but she shouldn’t have spent so much time with children of rich people instead of her own? Yet the kid got exposed to other cultures yet that may be more about the parents having their son be exposed to things which may help him professionally, such as learning Mandarin?

It can’t just be a coincidence that there’s widespread insubordination and defiance against the chain of command. Magda says If Aesha was encouraging she would work hard but Tumi thinks Aesha is being too nice, other chief stews would have come down hard. Jason holds back on Ryan being dismissive of him and Jason says he doesn’t want to confront Benny when he’s not doing his job because Benny gets all emotional. So maybe this cast was told that they’re not going to emphasize the chain of command, that they don’t have to follow orders they don’t like . Then Brittini being thirsty with the male guests and bristling at Jason telling her she was slacking on her duties to chat up the guests. She thinks it’s because these guests found her attractive. Maybe Ryan, Benny and Magda figure they can’t easily be replaced because of Australia’s strict quarantine rules but you’d think casting would have some alternate cast members handy. Regular BD producers love firing drama but maybe the producers in Australia don’t have the same approach. I don’t know if it would be satellite Internet or mobile networks. The Whitsundays seem remote, like not a lot of development on them. But it’s suppose to be a popular tourist destination so at least near port it would have good coverage. To do smooth video chats there would have to be a strong 4G connection or better. Satellite is not better.

Man I lost track of all the Mesa Verde stuff. The production schedule for this show just killed whatever narrative momentum it had. IIRC, first season of BB was interrupted by a long writer's strike, which cut it short. But when they aired it, there wasn't this big gap between seasons. Sure we had the pandemic but I think Odenkirk and others had major outside projects which caused them to delay production.

Lalo is supposedly looking for proof, as Hector demanded. He'll probably show up and say he doesn't believe it was the Peruvians or whomever Nacho accused before he died. Mike's probably going to have to try to protect Nacho's father. But a podcast reminded me that Nacho tried to get his father to move away and he refused, just said to tell the police.

Or they told her she has to act more reserved as a leader and to tout her relationship, which is suppose to have settled her. Or her previous appearances on BD were exaggerated and she was encouraged to speak without filters.

The question isn't what Ashley's been up to. The question should be, why is Bravo casting someone like her? Did she happen to have some jobs in yachting or did she or the producers make up or inflate her experience to get her on the show? Did she get cast because they expected her to get into certain shenanigans on camera, producing the kind of footage they aimed to get?

But is that Sam's outlook on life? Not saying it couldn't be but they kind of sprang it in the last part of the series finale. They could have ended with it being a snow globe in the eyes of an autistic child for instance. Maybe this is one of these "life-affirming" works that is suppose to be inspirtional and show how good life could be, with all these friends and family. You could certainly spin her situation negatively, two daughters, one leaves college and one doesn't even go, even though she's suppose to be a whiz kid. A mother who's forgetful and maybe a growing concern for Sam and her brother to worry about. Some financial issues yet she owns two homes, a bitching car yet she can get plenty of work in an industry which pays very well. But Sam sees life as this glorious gift, inspiring wonder. Well they never quite signaled that kind of existential view. Instead it was about her dealing with trying daughters, cooking a lot and getting to do some cool work. Did Better Things always exude this zest for life all the time? Certainly not in this zen kind of way. Sam got aggravated at various times. She put up with a lot from the daughters but had a short leash for her mother and her ex.

They threw all kinds of astronomical phenomenon, a total lunar eclipse, which made all these comets or star showers visible, Aurora Borealis, etc. Guess they have a healthy budget compared to a typical drama or comedy or dramedy. They get to shoot outside a lot, went to London, etc. Louis CK was reportedly very anal about the cinematography for his show. He was specific about the types of shots, angles, etc. he wanted for his show. I think Aziz Ansari was similar about Master of None. They hired cinematographers who seemed to put up more shots you'd see in movies than on TV shows. So maybe Adlon got into that as well. Maybe these standups and voice actors study cinema a bit before they get their chance to have their own show and become auteur wannabes. I like the things Louis CK and Aziz did on their shows. Adlon, they had a real polished look but not sure it served these "mundane" stories necessarily well. More budget is not necessarily better.

Yeah I don't know how well they could pull it off but Nacho trolling Hector probably helped sell it. Hector pumped his corpse full of lead to show how pissed he was. I understand his motivations but still very hard to trade his life for his father's life. This is where my recollections of previous seasons probably is coming up short. If Lalo died like he was suppose to, they wouldn't have had to sacrifice him? Wasn't he under suspicion or at least the Salamancas were treating him like dirt and it was only a matter of time before they took advantage of him and his father? It's plausible but they had written an interesting character and they had to dispose of him before the BB timeline. It feels abrupt, though it's been 6 seasons or 5 seasons and part of season 6 for the character.

Problem is, Sally wouldn't have the experience of knowing how to manage all the crew, what it takes to set up scenes to film, lighting, etc. Not to mention working in the writers room, making casting decisions, etc.

Seems like the Oaxaca couple quickly adjusted their budget to expectations. I would have thought she would have insisted on the third property but maybe throwing the husband a bone since she's the one pushing for the move. They probably planned to create his business to complement hers before he quit his job. In fact, probably got it off the ground so they knew they'd have the income. But she wanted to move down to anywhere in Mexico based on her college experience? Probably more to the story, like they are counting on reducing their housing expenses by a lot.

I don't think people particularly want to see people drinking on TV. It's the over the top behavior which can come from binge drinking. Then people argue, fight, hookup, etc. That's what the production team is about, filming all that. And Bravo is about airing all that. If they did a documentary about the behind the scenes of working on a yacht, most of it would be boring action, very little time featuring the guests and little time featuring the whole crew going out together to dine and drink. Would be boring I guess. The formula is to move the Real World onto boats. Not the early RW seasons, the late ones where the cast had to go out to clubs and binge drink.