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5 hours ago, peachmangosteen said:
I found this kind of hard to follow because there was too much going on but I really liked it. I will definitely keep watching.
Agree. For a first episode, I would have preferred a slower introduction to the characters and we got lost at points (watching it half asleep didn’t help) but it does seem intriguing.
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48 minutes ago, eelpout said:
Reality Blurred's review.
Bake It Til You Make It was the baking show I liked the first episode of. Second episode not so much. Too much talking to the camera, as the review noted.
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On 12/31/2022 at 3:35 PM, eelpout said:
No topic exists for this new thing on Food Network, so I'll start one. Heaven help me though, the less said about this the better IMO. I couldn't make it more than 2/3 of the way through the first episode before my (uncolored) contacts dried up, staring unblinking at the screen.
A show that seems to have been destined for Bravo, but maybe they passed(???). Is it a cooking show? Simple candid reality? An unintended critique for why social media is the devil? Even they aren't sure. 😁
(And there are 5 more episodes of this??? Maybe there are guest appearances of the real estate agents from that failed SF Million Dollar Listing show? 😉)
Watched the first episode with my girlfriend’s sister. I turned to her and said, “Shouldn’t this be on Bravo?”
I enjoyed another new show on the FN, on cake competitions, and gave this a shot. Not coming back for episode 2.
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I first saw this as a young-ish adult and loved it, maybe more as I got older. It probably helped that my mother told me I was the spitting image of Ralphie when I was a kid. It has an element of nostalgia for me too. I spent my early childhood in a town not unlike the one in the movie, and I’m old enough to be able to vaguely relate to the settings in the movie, as if I came in at the very tail end of that mid century era. I can see where that wouldn’t happen for younger generations.
This one and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation are our annual traditions.
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6 hours ago, enoughcats said:
We're in the process of changing access. The battlebots website hasn't been updated, does anyone know which streaming services will have it?
I would check Discovery Plus, where it’s been in the past.
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On 6/11/2022 at 10:00 AM, Schnickelfritz said:
She was from season 2. Maureen was diagnosed in 2016 with Bullous Pemphigoid (auto immune disease) and got blisters all over her body. She was in the hospital for 4 months and for some reason the blisters on her buttocks formed those keloids. I'm glad they showed her follow up. She seems like such a sweet lady. Glad she got relief!
Her episode is Season 2, Episode 2 if anyone is interested.
Well the show is back and if I’m not mistaken, one of the patients last night had the same rare auto immune disease. Interesting that they traced it to a diabetes medication which triggered it.
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Using Safari, cannot get into some show forums I follow. Tapping the title does nothing. Seems to be random.
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Having now watched most of the second episode, I think there is not enough trivia content (and most of it is sort of easy) if you’re a Jeopardy type of fan, and if you’re watching for the celebs, they need to have more content than waving around their arms and laughing.
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I swear Mike Myers is hosting this show.
The gameplay on this show is not very well explained.
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On 12/16/2022 at 10:30 PM, Enigma X said:
Roddy, the tech guy, is way more fucking annoying than he needs to be.
While Lamb has grosser habits in the books, overall the tone of the dialogue in the TV show seems a lot nastier. I don’t know whether it’s the same dialogue that just seems nastier, or whether it’s been rewritten. In the books, it’s sort of humorous.
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I didn’t need a traditional happy ending for Eli and Cordelia, but while the series was well done, I found it so depressing I’d be hard put to recommend it to anyone,
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3 hours ago, paigow said:
Lamb killed bathtub guy - staged as suicide- while Cartwright Sr. aka Governor Swan waited on the street.
And (in my recollection), bathtub guy was Standish’s boss and boyfriend.
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3 minutes ago, annzeepark914 said:
But when CNN was first created, wasn't it supposed to be 24 hour news? I thought that was Ted Turner's vision. I believe that if something *big* happened, CNN would cover it no matter what entertaining show was on. There certainly is plenty of news each day to cover.
I think though that CNN found out that people don’t want to watch news 24/7, so they diversified into other things like this series. The problem is that series are expensive and can be hit or miss with the viewing audience. So now after a management change, they’ve decided to go in a different direction.
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On 12/7/2022 at 8:51 AM, Crs97 said:
I know so many people dislike Matt, but I tended to see him more as sweet than anything else. Noel is the one who seems intrusive and mean spirited while Matt seems more lighthearted. I think of Laura fan-girling him because she loved Les Mis and his handshake with Jurgen.
I know an unpopular opinion, but I do think the weird vibe Noel brought to the show changed it for the worse. I could see, for example Sandy and Matt working together much like the original hosts. Matt needed the right co-host, and Noel wasn’t it.
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Saw a news story on CBS today that Reynolds and McElhenney got to meet King Charles at the stadium grounds with the team, as the King and Camilla were visiting to celebrate Wrexham getting the official status of “city”. Who knows, maybe there will be a second season.
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11 hours ago, SunnyBeBe said:
Why is Al having so many blood clots? This is scary. I saw that he came home from the hospital, but had to quickly return due to blood clots. Then, they showed a photo of him this morning and he must have lost a ton more weight. They said he’s back home from the hospital again, which I guess is good news. I wonder if he’ll return to work.
No idea, but I had read that having covid increases the risk of blood clots in some people. Al had covid in early October, maybe this was a side effect?
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I think this should be labeled episode 3.
Having read the books, I preferred the book to Season 1, but so far prefer the TV version of this season to the second book. I think the plot is better suited to TV, although certain twists to come, IMO, are harder to believe than the plot of Season 1.
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I just ran across a American Baking Show Celebrity Holiday Edition on the Roku channel. Paul and Prue are the judges. Ellie Kemper and some guy are the hosts. Of the celebrities, I had heard of only one, a football player. Did not watch, at least not yet.
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All hands were on deck tonight for the state dinner with Macron. Mika, Joe, Barnicle and Meacham among the invited guests. I guess Willie was left at home to run the show tomorrow.
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I was mostly impressed by a gun that could shoot through a brick wall and kill someone. I didn't care for the whole "training" sequence for the peripherals in the tower. Seemed a knockoff of a video game.
I will probably have to watch this again for some of the conversations about the factions in future London, which left me a bit confused.Not sure why Lowbeer would be concerned about accelerating the Jackpot in a different timeline (or maybe she's not).
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27 minutes ago, dubbel zout said:
I wondered, given their differences in social class, why Cornelia couldn’t have had Melmont immediately arrested and make the charges stick. Perhaps she was too traumatized. Of course, if she had, then we wouldn’t have a show.
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On 11/21/2022 at 2:06 PM, Deskisamess said:
I'm finding it impossible to express my thoughts on this season, so broken sentences it is.
Hugely disappointing. No longer charming. No longer about baking. Unfunny hosting. Awkward ill cast host. More fails than showstoppers. Not enough time allotted too many times, which led to most fails. Obviously biased editing. Not enough actual baking.
How far it's fallen. From a spectacular bread lion, to limp asparagus, baby corn, and a cucumber fishing rod. The latter belongs in the Gallery of Regrettable Foods.
I wonder if Paul Jagger of Bread Lion fame would even get cast on the show in its current iteration, with its emphasis on diversity, youth and personality.
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3 hours ago, peach said:
Stories like this often deal with fate. So. do the efforts to "save the world" continually cause the end of the world, over and over? What will Burton do when he finds out his haptics were implanted by and controlled by evil people in the future? They interact with the past thru this "data transfer" which obviously relies on electricity. If someone like Burton Fisher and his military unit discover they are being controlled this way, would they not...hack the electrical grid, causing the Jackpot? The final disaster is in their town, but is it the Fishers destroying the connection or the Future destroying their resistance? Plus we have multiple factions in the future.
It seems being "terrifyingly good" means it's Aelita's interference with the past that could actually cause them to fight back and create the apocalypse. She also said she enjoyed the power that comes with ordering them around, playing with her dollhouse, as it were. Then there's Lev. So it seems everyone enjoys playing the "sim" of the past, making quite a mess.
Anyway, I look forward to more! And to see how they go on the offense.
This is where time travel logic can fry your brain, but I had the impression that the actions of the future world in the “stub” world (like introducing haptics) would not impact the future we see on the show and couldn’t create the Jackpot. It could impact a different future spinning off from from the stub. Otherwise, every time the future does something in the stub, it would change their own present.
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What the future world learns from messing around in the stub of course would impact their own world going forward.
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On 11/14/2022 at 7:31 AM, Cetacean said:
Sadly, while this isn't a "hate watching" situation for me, it's more like a "let's get it over with" season. I no longer eagerly await each new episode, there is just so little to love anymore. I like the bakers well enough although Sandro is getting on my last nerve. But Prue and Paul can go pound sand, they are getting to be unwatchable.
This has been true for me for the past couple of seasons, too. Each season I tune in with great enthusiasm (loved the first cake episode this season, for example), then it slowly drains away. I’m not sure if I’m just jaded with the show (which happens for me eventually with a lot of reality competition shows), or if something is fundamentally different.
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All Episodes Talk: Orange is the New Yuck!
in Today
Savannah spent a couple of years in between in Washington as the White House correspondent before moving to Today.
A bit weirdly, Valerie Jarrett’s daughter was introduced on the show last week as the new “senior” legal analyst/correspondent for NBC.