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The bridal episode was really underwhelming, I didn't any. It would've been a lot more interesting were they able to colour and cut the hair too (although I can imagine those models being hesitant if their wedding isn't far off), but coming up with an idea and do it for 2 people in 2 hours is a mean setup. The creative challenges I just skip through, but the re-interpretation of Amy Whinehouse was pretty good.

I told my friend about this show and all she said was: I am glad I don't have to do that sh*t anymore. I doubt she'll watch the show. Between the shitty pay and working conditions (even though she worked in a very posh, high end salon) she has become pretty fed up with the customer facing side of the industry.

Anna

This is going to sound really mean, but ... if Ashley was the first reserve, then the pickings for contestants for this show must be really slim. She had one decent week - the daybed week - but besides that and for someone who trained in wood working, she is lucky to still be in this competition. The skills might be there, but on creativity the others are way ahead of her, even the ever over-complicating Tanya. She was so so lucky she won that annoying immunity challenge. Jacob, Lauren and Russel sure look like the front runners at the moment. I am not mad keen on this huge sculpture challenge and wouldn't be mad if the scaled that down to a more manageable size where they don't have to spend the bulk of the time removing a solid cube metre of wood first.

The crossover I didn't know I needed: Sewing Bee's Esme Young and Pottery Throwdown's Keith Brymer will appear together on an episode of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip!! I don't have a date for their episode yet, but Celebrity Antiques Road Trip series 11 begins on Sunday 23 October at 6:50pm on BBC Two and iPlayer. Theirs should be the 11th-ish episode.

The crossover I didn't know I needed: Sewing Bee's Esme Young and Pottery Throwdown's Keith Brymer will appear together on an episode of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip!! I don't have a date for their episode yet, but Celebrity Antiques Road Trip series 11 begins on Sunday 23 October at 6:50pm on BBC Two and iPlayer.

I just realised that Kyla looks like my GP and now I can't unsee it. The two have very opposing opinions about sugar 😄 I disapprove of any challenge that makes bakers spoil good bread by 'painting' it with food colouring.

I assume it was Noel who suggested or at least heavily supported GBBO having a Halloween themed week (he suggested Vegan week and Danish week was down to Sandy). SO here is the question: what would you like to see or suggest to the producers? Me? I would love to see them do something Eastern European - anything East of Vienna will do - because they have really tasty treats and delicious breads. An apple based challenge (as they did this week) would've been high on my list too, along with something nut-themed or floral flavours. AN allotment themed week maybe. I am sure for copyright reasons they couldn't get away with HArry Potter or LOTR themed weeks, but a literature inspired week, why not?

The clootie dumpling. They've been done before (James in Original season 5 (I think thats US Netflix collection 1), episode 6) and didn't go down well back then either if I remember correctly.

Thanks for starting a thread for this. I'm always unsure how many Primetimers watch stuff thats not officially available to US viewers. My good friend trained as hairdresser and I used to be a hair model for her and her colleagues. She was on the team for the London hair show a couple of times and now works for Schwarzkopf Professional, teaching hair professionals new methods and introducing them to the new salon products. I have to introduce her to this show and see what she thinks. She used to cut my hair until she got the Schwarzkopf gig, now I cut it myself and I feel even I cold do a better job than some of the contestants did in the cut challenge. If they had given the cut-models who weren't happy with their look a chance to pick one of the other contestants for a second go (the precision cut dude with the long hair probably could've done something nice for the girl who was talked out of cutting her hair very short) that would've been worth watching. I also get what the guest judge was about when he said he wanted them to take it a step further that would make other people ask for a hairdresser's phone number. The colour challenge was cool, but keeping such a colourful look neat requires a lot of further salon visits once the roots start showing again. The models all had amazing hair. The hair models for the creative brief, I feel for. I would not volunteer for something like that ever again. You basically have no say and some of the creative challenges didn't look very hair friendly. I hope they get the stuff taken down properly and some hair treatment to clean and relax the hair before they get sent off. As a show I think its very similar to the make-up based Glow Up and the 'creative' challenge is all about that picture for Instagram. There isn't much for the average person to learn. Explain some techniques, some of the corner stones of hair care and styling. I feel that with both shows I would like to see a regular make-over challenge with regular people. Give me something that is attainable for me.

I don't know if this is going to come to Netflix, but Channel 4 (on E4 or All4) has that new hair styling show - The Big Blow Out. Its a similar structure to Glow Up, but for hair stylists. They managed to get some big brands for challenges and so far the show has also had hair colouring and a cutting challenge (if anyone remembers the short lived show Hair on the BBC, this is a lot better). And the judges (Sam McKnight and Lisa Farrall) are pleasant enough, and AJ Odudu is gorgeous and brings good positive energy as presenter. I just wish they would explain their techniques a bit more.

The Halbrand/Sauron slow burn, especially telling Galadriel that she was the driver of the operation that brought him here, was good. Galadriel is acting like a child not alerting anyone to her revelations about Halbrand. The stranger and the cultists was unneccessary and far too long. Gil-Galad needs a better razor. Ugh the scene with Sauron in a billowing black cape there at the end. Is it really a 2 year wait til the next season? Thats too long for a show like this. They will have to build up momentum again.

Yeah, I expected a bit of an update too. I really needed closure on James and Erin There is a short documentary on the BBC about the 'real' Derry Girls aka the girls who went to Thornhill (the real life version of Our Lady Immaculate) at or around the time Lisa McGee was there. They show a few clips of Lisa dancing on stage that are very much like Erin & Co in the season 1 finale. There are also a few shots of a girl that is the spitting image of Michele. Its in Irish (with subtitles), its called Ceathrar Cailíní Dhoire

Uff, for a moment I thought Carole would reverse Houndini it again, but it was her time to go. Not terribly good with social cues is our Paul? He could've clocked right away that Dawn wasn't that keen on being compared to his Mom instead of rubbing it in a bit more. Speaking of Dawn, how gutting for her that she messed up the Lemon meringue pie (if you think British pronounciationa are a bit of a head scratcher sometimes, you should hear the German Bake Off contestants say 'meringue'), something she knows inside out. Artificial flavours are always a herald of doom on this show, aren't they?

I checked. Season 1, episode 6 when Mary is collecting darks for the washing she asks Sarah 'so, if I go next door and open that washing basket of yours ...' and I am sure there was a hint on Joe living with them at some point. For houses like those, 2-3 upstairs rooms (one probably a box room with a bed) plus a bathroom would be the standard layout.

LOL, I was thinking the same. That female judge and her limited vocabulary are melting my head. I like the new presenter though.

if I remember correctly Orla, Sarah and Joe live next door.

Do I remember correctly that the instructions only said 'make the refried beans', 'make the picco' etc. Do they expect the contestants to be familiar with every possible dish in international week? As for the missing taco press, my first choice would have been a rolling pin. Or maybe that's a chance to finally put those odious trouser presses of yesteryear to good use 😅

I think it most of that was the actor's work and chemistry and it would be refreshing to see them lean into it more instead of actively baiting like the Sherlock team did post Reichenbach. It can be romantic without getting sexual and as going with the times immortal beings it doesn't need to stick with that gentlemen/Frodo/Sam way of understanding. I saw MS asked about the queer fan fiction in an interview and he was very sweet about it. Freeman and Cumberbatch always sounded mildly annoyed, but maybe that was because they didn't like each other that much.

Agree! Also, is it just me who didn't understand the point of that time machine? After a couple of days that is just a wooden box with some dials on top. Both, the potion cabinet and ice cream cart, as a concept, seemed more like sturdy things for a kindergarden or day care centre (I say that as someone who had a wooden play kitchen). The Ferris wheel is more decorative storage than toy, a cute thing for soft toys instead of prams or miniature chairs.

That Balrog needs a good prescription of melatonin if it can be woken by a falling leaf. It isn't the shuddering tale of waking a monster from the bowels of the earth I though it would be. I hope that this means the stranger isn't a balrog, not because it isn't consistent with JRR, but I feel it would be a big thing for a layman audience to accept. The Mystic Dawn trio though, I am curious to learn what they are about. I enjoyed to mood change with Elendil thinking he's lost his son. The scene were he set the horse free was very Aragorn and Brego. Halbrand on the other hand ... one moment he is on his death bed with a festering wound, next he is galloping away with Galadriel?

How did Carole manage to cling on again? She and her gung-ho approach to the first 2 challenges are starting to grate on me.

I'd say it also has a good deal to do with supermarkets being the head sponsor of the show now (it used to be Aldi, now it's Sainsbury's). They want to sell decorating stuff that surely has a better margin than flour and cream. That, in my opinion, is how we end up with cake houses and biscuit masks. From a retailer's view, even pizza seems a good earner. Sure enough, Sainsbury has a Bake Off themed section on their website. That they still never had a proper sourdough challenge in bread week is a criminal oversight imho.

I remember that, it was a good show, but rather slowly paced. It is currently on repeat on BBC Two. I never understood the guy with the abstract art, who used the toxic paints in his custom made studio. There was a good show called 'Art School' in the mid 00s that focused on teaching the contestants the techniques and a critical eye.

Shirley picked the bold necklace that was bound to show up well on camera, but I preferred the others tbh. They looked well made. Something about this show needs to be tweaked. Katherine and the male jude are good TV material but I really struggle to connect with the show. Jewellery making is very specific and expensive, and not something that you can just have a go at, unlike sewing or baking or make up. Project Runway had a Project Accessories spin-off, that only got 1 season. I don't know why it works with pottery and I am curious about the hair show that starts on Monday. Can any of youse think about another craft that would work in this format?