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RemoteControlFreak

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  1. Another family with differences stakes their claim on reality TV. And boy does this check all the boxes. They definitely give off a fundamentalist Christian vibe, the mom doesn’t work outside the home, all the girls and women have hair down to their waist, teenage son already engaged, homeschooling, dad is sole earner with a very pedestrian job, claim they’re not on TV to be famous, yada yada yada. Following the well-worn steps trod by the families Duggar, Roloff, Gosselin, Busby et al it won’t be long before they move into a new bigger house, the dad quits his job, they start taking vacations around the world, at least one kid peaces out, and the marriage dangles by a thread held together only by TLC money and endorsements. Can’t wait for it.
  2. You have to remember that production hires these people but Captain Lee can fire them. That's what sets up the repeated scenario we see on Below Deck and Below Deck Med of department heads getting stuck with incompetent workers and right away going to the captain to plead for a change. Every season, production sticks in at least a couple of characters who are just there to make the TV show something we want to laugh or roll our eyes at. Part of the show drama is to see how long they'll last. And, obviously, there's no way that if Below Deck were not, above all, a television show, someone with Shane's experience would have been hired. The show COULD cast a whole crew of supremely capable and responsible workers, but it would be too boring for most viewers.
  3. I agree on the definition of corruption. My point was that there was no indication that Thatcher’s reluctance to sanctions was connected to her son’s work. The mere fact that he did business in South Africa is not sufficient grounds to charge Thatcher with corruption.
  4. Obviously you don’t have to “be around” for a period of history to know if a depiction is true. In any case, it’s not even close to corruption if Mark Thatcher merely doing business with South Africa influenced his mother’s policies. Margaret Thatcher’s reluctance to impose sanctions on South Africa was mainstream Conservative Party ideology at the time.
  5. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-crown-the-official-podcast/id1485757121
  6. The official Crown podcast is a great source for learning what content the show’s creators based on real events and what is fictionalized.
  7. I don’t think it was a real stag, just movie magic. It definitely was not a real dead stag carried back on the horse.
  8. It was a sign above a merry-to-round and it said "Proud Merry Go Round".
  9. Could Popcorn be Cyndi Lauper? The voice, both the accent under the altered speaking voice and her singing voice sound like her. I'd be surprised if Sun isn't Demi Lovato. No idea about Snow Owls but at one point the woman said "oh, brother" to the man so I'm guessing siblings. Donny and Marie Osmond.
  10. Do you really mean to imply that there specific Jewish “mannerisms?”
  11. Exactly. No one would have said either “Black” or “Thank you for your service.” Also they wouldn’t have used the term “Asian.” They would have said “Oriental.” And being a veteran wasn’t viewed as that rare in late 1940s America, since being in the military during World War 2 was almost a universal experience for young men.
  12. Pic in Hannah’s Twitter showed date 02/08/19 on a Sydney AUS pharmacy package. That’s August 2, 2019.
  13. Time off from doing what? He’s the least hard working person in show business.
  14. Yes. And Sandy’s phone call to Yachty Central looking for a chef was staged. Below Deck never replaces fired members with random chefs, stews or deck hands. They bring in a vetted and approved reality TV character, often one who’s been on a previous season.
  15. If Malia has any ethics, before snapping a pic and running to Sandy, she’s have simply gone to Hannah and said, “Hey, I noticed you had Valium. Isn’t that a maritime law violation?” And let Hannah have a chance to explain. A few episodes ago, after seeing how Malia handled the deck crew, I posted that she had the best leadership skills of anyone in any season of Below Deck, though she still had a chance to fuck things up. Thanks Malia for proving me right. You fucked things up spectacularly. And your leadership skills actually suck. They’re almost as bad as Captain Sandy’s, and that’s a very low bar.
  16. Sandy didn’t “make him” cry. Yes, she micromanaged but the criticism of his cooking was deserved. He seems like someone who was chosen for Below Deck more for his TV show appeal than his cooking experience. Actually, on rewatching, she’s a terrible manager. She still didn’t “make him cry,” but she did nearly everything wrong.
  17. I’ve watched a lot of The Big Bang Theory and see nothing similar between Kevin Gillespie and the fictional Sheldon Cooper.
  18. Malia has the best leadership skills of anyone in any season of Below Deck or Below Deck Med. Yes, this includes Captain Lee. Of course she still has time to fuck it up in the usual ways (see Eddie Lucas, Ashton Pienaar, and later-season Kate Chastain for examples).
  19. None of this excuses anything that Kevin said or did, from coming up with restaurants (real and conceptual) that glorify gun culture and slavery, to issuing a weird mea culpa apology after the BLM uprising on June 2020. It doesn't matter that other people think this way or act from these beliefs, either now or in past years, in the southern US or in northern California. It's a very dangerous step to start excusing someone's bad behavior because other people engage in the same behavior. Kevin had a very public platform on a popular reality television show and he used it to reveal his antiquated thinking that reinforces the worst stereotypes of the American south.
  20. But Gregory was at the final judge’s table where Melissa was named Top Chef. Did he fly back to the US after he lost and then come back to Italy just to stand on the side during final judging? All indications are that he stayed in Italy through the finale but just wasn’t well enough to be a sous chef.
  21. I don’t know. There’s something about Blair. She comes across as trying too hard to be one of the cool kids. I’m guessing I’m the only one who thought her confession about alcohol use screamed, “I’m a serious Queen too! I also have an alcohol problem!l”
  22. It's unclear that this Facebook post has anything to do with his glorifying slave plantations in his restaurant concepts. It appears to be a requisite response to current events and BLM. I don't think Kevin has any idea that his cooking and restaurants serve to squarely identify and glorify all that is reprehensible about the American South -- from slavery, to plantation life, to restaurants that serve large portions of bad food, to irresponsible gun culture, to faux [fill in ethnicity] cuisine. For god's sake, he even named his first restaurant "Gunshow," describing that one of his fondest childhood memories was attending gunshows with his dad. He even calls the employees, "hired guns." (https://gunshowatl.com/) If he's not racist, he's certainly tone deaf. So it was completely on brand for him to show up in Italy, speak of himself in the third person, act like he discovered pasta e fagioli, and then serve his dishes with a tableside application of a mound of parmesan. It's probably just what he has his hired guns do at Gunshow Atlanta.
  23. Country Captain reminds me of a cross between Colonel Sanders and the Country Kitchen chain restaurants. This is apparently what Kevin was going for, but it would take a lot for me to go to a place like that.
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