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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]


kat perez - Dec 02, 2013 10:21:15 am PST #21604 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

Didn't The Sing Off start out as a holiday/Christmas season show? I may be misremembering. At any rate, I'm just happy that it's coming back because I so love this show. As long as Ben Folds and Shawn Stockman are still in, I'm in. I don't have strong feels about Jewel taking over for Sarah Barielles. Anyone is going to be better than Nicole Scherzinger, so there you go.


Theodosia - Dec 02, 2013 12:11:16 pm PST #21605 of 23273
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

TAR: At least Tim of the Tim & Marie Squabble-off doesn't have many illusions about his partner's disposition.

I feel a little bit for her -- I don't like hard-boiled eggs, so I have no idea how long you're supposed to boil them. OTOH, I'd have the sense to actually put them in the boiling water if I was trying to cook them....


Jessica - Dec 02, 2013 2:38:31 pm PST #21606 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

OTOH, I'd have the sense to actually put them in the boiling water if I was trying to cook them....

I am guessing/hoping that she was only holding them above the water for a few moments, long enough for the cameras to capture it and edit it together with Tim's comment.


Theodosia - Dec 02, 2013 3:07:53 pm PST #21607 of 23273
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I was also amused that Travis's makeup job on Nicole was significantly better than what Nicole did to his face.

Leo and Jamal have noone but themselves to blame for their last place. I mean, it's not like they've got really great beards to start with, but to go back to that nearly-hopeless needle/haystack they'd given up on?

I can only hope this means they don't make it to the Final Three, but then that would mean Tim & Marie definitely make it in. (It isn't that T&M are incompetent or undeserving of it, just that Marie is so continually unpleasant when she doesn't have to be.)


kat perez - Dec 04, 2013 2:56:31 pm PST #21608 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

At this point, I'd root for Tim and Marie to get in ahead of the Afghanimals and who'd have ever thunk it? They have become increasingly unpleasant as the race has gone on, while Tim and Marie have maintained their unpleasantness threat level at a constant "Boo. You are not as good as past villains" pretty much the whole season and Tim, at least, seems like a not terrible person.

I have to pull for Boston to take it all. The ER Doctors have showed off a sanctimonious side these past couple of episodes that is not pleasant. Also, Nicole is kind of a doof at tasks. She gets really easily rattled and that annoys me to no end. Given that I pretty much enjoyed most of the teams on this season, we wound up with a pretty underwhelming bunch going into the finale.


brenda m - Dec 04, 2013 3:19:06 pm PST #21609 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

The Afghanimals has grown on me, actually. Though they did not do themselves any good last ep.

Frankly (and I would never have thought this at the beginning, on either end) I will happy as long as it's not Travis and Nicole.

I really like Boston, but they need to get more competitive. Tim and Marie have toned it down some, and are good racers. The Afganimals are up and down, but have grown a bit less irritating since I think more of the sthick we see later in the race is genuine.

Travis and Nicole's weird sanctimony and fixation on the Afghanimals, and their personal dynamic, is so offputting.


meara - Dec 04, 2013 3:54:18 pm PST #21610 of 23273

I'm with Brenda. Wouldn't have thought it at the beginning but I just don't feel like Travis and Nicole are good racers. Tim surprised me last episode with how normal and yet accepting of Marie he was. It was interesting.


Vonnie K - Dec 04, 2013 6:35:55 pm PST #21611 of 23273
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Restaurant wars! Jesus Mary and Joseph, what a disaster at Found. I am glad Sarah went home, since it seemed obvious the majority of the chaos was due to her not training the wait staff properly. Leaving the judges' table without explaining the food! The attitude! I got the sense that Shirley and Nina's dishes were almost as good as Nicholas' (and probably better than most other dishes at Fin) and kinda cracked up at how they just kept their heads down and cooked their food, away the clusterfuck doing a twister around their heads.

Fine, Travis. I will try to forget the creepy yellow fever thing from a few episodes back, since you clearly knew what you were doing being FoH.


Frankenbuddha - Dec 05, 2013 3:22:59 am PST #21612 of 23273
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Jesus Mary and Joseph, what a disaster at Found.

Amen (so to speak). Must make the obvious joke and say they should have been "Lost" instead.

Fine, Travis. I will try to forget the creepy yellow fever thing from a few episodes back, since you clearly knew what you were doing being FoH.

I got to go along with the judges and say that was the best FoH I've seen ofor Restaurant Wars. Or at least the best that also did a solid by the kitchen in the process.


Morgana - Dec 05, 2013 5:28:28 pm PST #21613 of 23273
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

Re: Found -- as soon as they spent all their time squabbling over décor and dishes and reached the market still without having decided upon a menu, I knew they were a disaster waiting to happen.