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Originally posted by Slightly Brown View PostJust finished the latest series of Masterchef.
spoilers>>>>>>>>>
The loveable Eddie takes the title. Handsome fellow with a reassuringly doughy midriff. My 74-year-old mum got herself a right teeny-bop crush. My dad is all of-a-sudden making jus and char-grilling lettuce. Anyway, this series was particularly good. A likeable cast of characters. Less combative than the US and Australian versions. A lot of the food looked particularly delicious this year. Pickling is still big, but foraging has taken a back seat. It’s one of those shows that you get so into that you feel a want when it’s not there. It’s on iPlayer if you’re in the mood.
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Olayemi. She was great. It's regular on Masterchef to see cooks who seem unlikely to win but are the ones you'd be most excited to be fed by, and she's definitely in that sphere.
When I was in Finland recently I watched their Masterchef recently, and it was similar but had some more game-like rules whereby contestants could get their food judged as soon as they finished and use that time elsewhere. It's a tad more gimmicky and detracts a bit from everyone having the same conditions to simply prepare great food.
I think Masterchef in the UK has made some strides in inclusivity so that people who cook are skilled in different cuisines don't get kicked out just because they can't master making a pie or cake or some other fairly Westernised culinary convention. It seems a little bit more open. That said, its coverage of non-meat dishes is still miniscule (considering how many people in the UK don't eat regularly meat now), and it had an unfortunate return of that total A hole Gordon Ramsay to resurrect his shouting and bullying style of management, which is a toxic ingredient the food trade desperately needs to get rid of.
Also, there some almost a borderline racist idea in Masterchef that anyone who doesn't cook Western food brings 'lots of flavour'. It's almost a tautology. What good chef doesn't provide lots of flavour? It's almost as bad as Black contestants on Strictly being described as having rhythm. Someone seriously needs to have a word.
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I dunno, Peps. I've been watching Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy (BBC IPLAYER), looking at him scoff his way around the regions. And I sit and salivate and want to eat every dish he tries (as well as making a mental note yet again to eventually visit Sicily).
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Originally posted by diggedy derek View PostSpoilers
It’s been one of those Masterchefs where it’s been obvious almost since the start who would win. A little like 21 year old Craig a while back. Eddie’s just great.
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I don't think they've persevered with Junior Masterchef much here, maybe as Junior Bake Off was a bit of a hit. That does sound a lot of fun, though, I'm sure.
For me, food works as a visual experience, it's just a brilliantly produced bit of TV where they manage to capture the sheen of a sauce or the grain or the stickiness of the rice really well. Obviously would be nice to taste it, but, it's still a feast for the senses.
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Originally posted by slackster View PostI dunno, Peps. I've been watching Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy (BBC IPLAYER), looking at him scoff his way around the regions. And I sit and salivate and want to eat every dish he tries (as well as making a mental note yet again to eventually visit Sicily).
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Mike Meyers' The Pentavarate is bad, I'm sorry to say.
Ever since the second Austin Powers film, the ratio of awful shit, fart and dick jokes to really funny clever jokes has grown steadily and in this, the ratio is about 3 to 1. It's sad because some of his impressions in it and jokes about Canada are clever.
I gave up after episode 2.
He's one of the only famous people I can think of who faded away not because he was metoo'd or accused of specific charges of abuse, but just because he's known as just too difficult to deal with. Even Dana Carvey doesn't want to deal with him any more, really.
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I watched a bizarre but charming documentary movie on the plane yesterday called Set! about competitive table setting, and a bunch of (no surprise) Southern Californians competing to win the Best In Show for table setting (or tablescaping as some called it) at the Orange County Fair.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostMike Meyers' The Pentavarate is bad, I'm sorry to say.
Ever since the second Austin Powers film, the ratio of awful shit, fart and dick jokes to really funny clever jokes has grown steadily and in this, the ratio is about 3 to 1. It's sad because some of his impressions in it and jokes about Canada are clever.
I gave up after episode 2.
He's one of the only famous people I can think of who faded away not because he was metoo'd or accused of specific charges of abuse, but just because he's known as just too difficult to deal with. Even Dana Carvey doesn't want to deal with him any more, really.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostI watched a bizarre but charming documentary movie on the plane yesterday called Set! about competitive table setting, and a bunch of (no surprise) Southern Californians competing to win the Best In Show for table setting (or tablescaping as some called it) at the Orange County Fair.
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Originally posted by WOM View Post
You're very charitable. He's just an asshole. I know people who grew up with him and a couple who've worked with him in the industry (Love Guru movie, specifically). He's just an asshole. Dana Carvey is being sweet when he hedges about why they're estranged.
Dana Carvey basically retired from the business for a while because he wanted to stay home with his kids. He said he could make $100,000 plus a private flight to do private stand-up gigs whenever he felt like it so he just did that for awhile. But he's been more public in recent years and it's been clear that doing more with Meyers is not going to be part of that.
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A second hand recommendation this but my wife pulled an all nighter (ending at about 4.00 am this morning) watching the first series of ‘Love Life’ on BBC iplayer which she tells me is the best thing she’s seen in years.
The second series is apparently on BBC1 at the moment.
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Originally posted by Sunderporinostesta View PostFinished off Slow Horses a couple of days ago. I liked it.
Then after reading Gary Oldman may revisit his Smiley role in a remake of Smileys People binged Alec Guiness’s original. Wonderful stuff but not as good as TTSS.
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
I'm nervous. Stretching brilliant 30 minute comedies to feature length has a tragic history.
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Going off previous comedy specials, I'm predicting that Andy and Lance win a competition to go on an archeological dig in Egypt. Following an unlikely series of events, they are confused for spies and kidnapped. The day is saved when they detect an ancient skeleton key in the desert sand and escape the baddies lair. Guest star Omid Djalili plays all the Egyptians.
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