Sailorgirl26

I LOVED this show--I'm so glad it's on Hulu. I've watched it probably twice already. Season 2 got a little too woo-woo but season 1 was killer. The episode with George Michael hiring Eli to defend the high school student is my favorite episode of all. This show proved you can successfully incorporate musical numbers in a show. I forgot Laura Benanti was in it--I wish we'd seen a bit more of her and Nate's relationship but I'm sure it was scheduling availability for her. Victor Garber singing "Don't let the sun go down on me" 😍😍😍 Eli calling Jordan (Garber) a George Michael "fan boy" and Jordan's response was just an all-time great TV moment. And of course "Dottor a-Chen". And George. Freakin'. Michaels. Can you tell I LOVE this show???

They must have hired a new social media manager, because their Insta this season has been stellar. Nelly was the perfect person to do this! https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDr-V_yAh2d/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/nov/30/bake-off-dylan-bachelet-breakout-star

Awww . . . baby Dylan at the beginning -- so stinkin' adorable! I think once he got in his head, he just couldn't get back into the groove, but out of all of the "since the show ended. . ." updates, his made me the happiest (and they ALL make me happy). Georgie's showstopper has to be what sealed the deal for her -- both her decorations and her flavors were on point. I'm so glad Paul held her to rolling down the hill if she won -- that was great. I was on edge the whole episode wanting each of them to pull it off, but knowing only one could. I managed to avoid being spoiled on Instagram . . . @MartyQui it wasn't easy, so I feel for you! The family interviews and updates always get me. Definitely had tears in my eyes more than once in this final.

Was it definitely her? I thought it was an Easter egg--I was just coming here to ask if anyone else caught it. Just the extra rose of icing on a beautiful cake. Edit to add: I think you're talking about not-a-girl but there was an Eleanor Shelstrop shout out in the classroom, which is what I'm referencing. They show the back of a student standing up and she's wearing a white sweater that has rainbow stripes around the collar and the same haircut and color as Eleanor. It's a very intentional shot. This was a wonderful, bittersweet, touching, and heartwarming show. My mom developed early onset Alzheimer's when she was 52 so this show was a gut wrencher for me at times. Someone in that writers' room definitely has a relative with Alzheimer's or they put the time and effort into observing and really understanding the onset of the disease. The two scenes that really got me were when Charles was explaining to his daughter that he'd broken his promise to Victoria and was putting her into memory care. Having to make that decision for my mom really broke my dad. The second was the second to last scene when the woman with Alzheimer's was gently petting the stuffed dog Charles had given her. My mom had a stuffed seal that she was attached to in that way. I held onto that seal for a really long time. 😢💜🥰

But they all visit each other. . . . I follow several former bakers and they often get together with bakers from their seasons 1:1 and as a group. Hell, Matty had all of the bakers from his season at his wedding. I love both of them, but do not understand why every male/female interaction has to have an are they/aren't they spin. Didn't the media do it with Chigs and Lottie too? Its a bit of a sore spot with me for reasons, but still. Either speculate for everyone when they catch up, regardless of gender, or just leave it alone. They are both cutie pies, no matter what!

This was one of those themes that could have been stupid but they did okay. A couple of years ago, 70s week would have been something like "make a disco ball that rotates and suspend it from a roller skate lace"--SO glad the show runners paid attention and brought the show back to what it's actually about--good, quality baking by talented home bakers. If you follow GBBO on Instagram, they posted pics of Allison when she was little in the 70s. She was laughing even then. In the list of people I want to drink with in a pub, she is pretty close to the top!!! Hell, I bet even just a Target run with her would be crazy fun!!

When I read the description, I immediately thought of the Bradley Cooper episode, in which the student ran into him at the deli across the street. And they didn't disappoint -- in the scene where Barbara and Melissa were picking up their Italian subs, on the board behind the deli owner? A signed picture of one Bradley Cooper. Its those through-details that make a really great show. And this is a really. great. show.

Orlando Jones as Gregory's father remains some of the best tv casting ever in terms of resemblance and believability.

I want to love this because David Tennant makes anything great and Aidan Turner is Aidan Turner but I am just not getting into this. Is this a "you really need to have read the book to appreciate it" show?

Quoted the wrong comment. I like the idea of Ash taking Laurent to fill the void of losing his son -- we know that D & C are headed to Spain next season and it would be a good way to close the book on the messiah child story. Funny, because I hated the kid the first season but he's finally grown on me the past two episodes, because he's acting like a normal kid and not some all-knowing, all-feeling whatever. . . .

The catacombs in Paris are indeed very real. https://www.catacombes.paris.fr/en# There's many, many steps you have to take to get down into the catacombs. Unrelated to the convo but what I think of every time I see them in a show or movie . . . I had a ticket to tour them but blew out my knee and spent the day with an ice pack on my knee. I was really upset as the catacombs were one of my absolute musts on that trip. . . they apparently are quite something to see, and easy to get lost in (but they don't allow tourists into a lot of the areas. This was a good episode -- they moved the plot along nicely and Coudron is a good addition to both the badassery and redemption themes that define Carol and Daryl's character arcs.

Well, France does fit inside the state of Texas, so..... (Not saying Texas is small, just saying France is smaller than Texas. And that I look for every opportunity to share this random fact.)

I lasted about 5 minutes longer than you. This just dragged on and on and on and on.....I ff-ed to the last minute to see if there was any wrapup. You are not alone.

Kumail's abs will forever remind me of Hasan Minaj's rant about said abs: NSFW language warning: