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Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


Toddson - Jun 19, 2007 7:01:22 am PDT #108 of 23273
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

oh, ew - I missed that! (HK) What is WITH these people? they were talking about Julia not "knowing the product" and not knowing about high-level ingredients and spices and then you've got one person fishing food out of the trash and another one preparing to use seafood that's gone bad. bleah.


sj - Jun 19, 2007 7:10:40 am PDT #109 of 23273
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

And did you guys see Joanna lick the tongs she was stirring the risotto with?

I saw that and was surprised nothing came of it later.


sumi - Jun 19, 2007 7:32:29 am PDT #110 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

Right. I think Julia's got good basics and she can learn to make those dishes but will Jen learn the sense to not take food out of the garbage if she hadn't learned that from her mother by now? Or Joanna being unable to small really bad crab? Or licking the damn tongs?

Sheesh.


Frankenbuddha - Jun 19, 2007 8:15:07 am PDT #111 of 23273
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Right. I think Julia's got good basics and she can learn to make those dishes

And she can prioritize on the fly. If she knows what's going into something, she's aware of how much time she does or doesn't have on something else. Nobody else on either team seems to have the first clue how to do that. Learning the technique to make a dish is easier than learning how to do five things at once, IMO.


Toddson - Jun 19, 2007 8:16:23 am PDT #112 of 23273
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Does Chef Ramsey look at the footage when deciding who goes? There have been things that happened when he wasn't around that should have had some impact, but a lot of the time they don't ever seem to come up. I'm thinking especially of last season when one of the people said something was almost ready and the person who was assembling the service took her at her word and then got chewed out when it was going to take a while to cook and then the person lied about what she'd said.


Frankenbuddha - Jun 19, 2007 9:15:12 am PDT #113 of 23273
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I love that TWoP has the Gordon Ramsay bleep-o-meter in their recaps. Love.


SailAweigh - Jun 19, 2007 6:09:19 pm PDT #114 of 23273
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Sean, I missed the Ice Road Truckers on Sunday, but I caught it tonight. Those guys have got to have fricking nerves of titanium to do that. Everytime I heard the ice cracking I wanted to tell them to get the fuck off the road.


Sean K - Jun 19, 2007 6:21:49 pm PDT #115 of 23273
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Yay! I can talk Ice Road Truckers with Sail!

I loved Alex. He cracked me up. Crazy old bear of a canuck.


SailAweigh - Jun 19, 2007 6:40:28 pm PDT #116 of 23273
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I loved some of the accents. That kid hauling the oversize loads is so Fargo it's ridiculous.


Sean K - Jun 19, 2007 7:09:58 pm PDT #117 of 23273
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

That kid hauling the oversize loads is so Fargo it's ridiculous.

His wife and kid were beautiful with their pretty, oversized almond eyes.