Dawn: I feel safe with you. Spike: Take that back!

'First Date'


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]


Amy - Mar 28, 2011 6:53:18 am PDT #16445 of 23273
Because books.

Just to be clear, I don't judge (at all). But it does make some of her dreamier deliveries of Quickfire instructions a little more understandable.

TAR: I'm rooting for Flight Time and Big Easy. They're completely charming. I did love the people at the tea challenge hugging and cheering Luke when he finally finished, though.


erikaj - Mar 28, 2011 8:37:22 am PDT #16446 of 23273
Always Anti-fascist!

"Knowing" Bourdain as I have recently started to, that would be my guess...Bourdain never met a drug reference he didn't like.(including standing around a bunch of grandmas buying cannoli, noticing he had powdered sugar on himself, and sighing melodramatically "Ah...the eighties,") I also had read that she had either:
a. Gone to some kind of "legalize it!" event.
b. been interviewed by High Times
I don't really know which. And I don't know why it stuck in my head, since I'm not really a Top Chef viewer...I watched it for a season, probably. But I probably thought something wiseassed myself, about Funyuns challenges, or something.


le nubian - Mar 28, 2011 9:43:13 am PDT #16447 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

What is it about Nerve that isn't SFW. I opened it and am merrily reading the web pages.

If there is a sudden silence, I have been kidnapped.


Amy - Mar 28, 2011 9:49:59 am PDT #16448 of 23273
Because books.

Nerve has a bunch of sexuality columns and some nude photography, although that might be for pay now.


Liese S. - Mar 28, 2011 10:21:09 am PDT #16449 of 23273
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

India Killer Fatigue Syndrome

Yeah, I definitely thought this. I felt for the workers, too, and was glad when they cheered for him. You could tell they didn't expect it to be nearly that difficult a challenge. Smell was the key issue here. It's much easier to tell a distinct difference with the odor of tea than the taste.

I was okay with seeing them go, too, but I'm glad he finished and didn't quit.


le nubian - Mar 28, 2011 10:22:57 am PDT #16450 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

dammit. I'm missing the nudes!


Jesse - Mar 29, 2011 5:06:13 pm PDT #16451 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ooh, anyone else watching Drag Race on VH1 on the DVR like I do might have missed the big twist at the end -- Michele and Santino (and anyone else?) get to bring back an eliminated queen!


smonster - Mar 29, 2011 5:08:46 pm PDT #16452 of 23273
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Yup, I saw that.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 29, 2011 5:25:04 pm PDT #16453 of 23273
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Oh, stocky dudes on HGTV shows, when will you learn that white shirts with horizontal stripes are not your friends?


Amy - Mar 30, 2011 5:14:11 pm PDT #16454 of 23273
Because books.

Top Chef: How ironic is it that Mike picked all women for his sous chefs after the way he behaved this season (and in his last)? Now maybe he'll learn a lesson about who to diss.