Oh, and thanks to you people, I watched (and introduced to friends to) Dance Crew (the history episode). I enjoyed it muchly. Yay!
Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?
Willow ,'Lessons'
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]
meara - Mar 26, 2008 10:15:41 pm PDT #4094 of 23273
Jesse - Mar 27, 2008 3:14:00 am PDT #4095 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Obviously they were going to put Claire (who we LOVE!) in the bottom two, to "teach her a lesson". Whatevs.
Yeah, and now she won't have to be smiley and cute until they do a commercial, and which point I assume they will be amazed at how well she does.
le nubian - Mar 27, 2008 3:42:59 am PDT #4096 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
TC: I was actually offended by the guy who said you can't make Mexican food into fine dining - so I was all "don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out."
How can you say that about any food from a WHOLE NATION of people?
Frankenbuddha - Mar 27, 2008 3:56:44 am PDT #4097 of 23273
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
TC: I was actually offended by the guy who said you can't make Mexican food into fine dining - so I was all "don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out."
And to say that with Rick Bayless as your judge? Beyond dumb. Pretty much everybody on the red team can go bye bye (the red team was the condescending snobs, right?) Especially jaunty hat guy - what a tool.
Kathy A - Mar 27, 2008 4:03:48 am PDT #4098 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
TC: I was actually offended by the guy who said you can't make Mexican food into fine dining - so I was all "don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out."
How can you say that about any food from a WHOLE NATION of people?
Oh, I was praying for this guy to go home from the moment he said that. You don't dismiss an entire country's cuisine in that way, especially not in Chicago, where you not only have Topolobompo, but several other fine-dining Mexican places (I really must get over to Flamingo Seafood near me, which was just featured on the local "Check, Please" show and looked fabulous, and is Mexican seafood fine dining).
You get ingredients fresh from the farmers market, you get tons of meat and all kinds of craziness, and you serve me hot dogs and velveeta? I don't know, people, in the midwest, this is where all your food grows! You need to learn that middle america is about fresh ingredients straight from the fields.
So very much this. God, that was so annoying! Damnit, we have just about everything here that they have in New York and San Francisco, and we have just as refined tastes, you TC snobs.
le nubian - Mar 27, 2008 4:11:03 am PDT #4099 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Adobo Grill in Chicago has my heart. I had the BEST guacamole I have had in my life there.
Damn.
Vortex - Mar 27, 2008 5:35:23 am PDT #4100 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
And, what idiot doesn't know that if you are making mac and cheese that's going to sit you make it extra saucy so that it doesn't dry out. BASIC.
Amy - Mar 27, 2008 5:37:00 am PDT #4101 of 23273
Because books.
Also? Who brings heavy, rich mac and cheese to a block party?
Frankenbuddha - Mar 27, 2008 5:39:49 am PDT #4102 of 23273
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also? Who brings heavy, rich mac and cheese to a block party?
Well, that didn't bug me so much, as it serves a lot of people, but the nuclear orange version she decided to make did. Looked like Kraft out of the box (which I adore, but is also really fucking condescending in this context).
lisah - Mar 27, 2008 5:40:32 am PDT #4103 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate
The most annoying part was my friends and I predicting exactly what would happen, before we even saw the photos.
Seriously!! Claire and Aimee were getting the Bottom 2 edit from the very start of the show. Mix it up ANTM editors!!! I love Claire too but she was being kind of mean to Dominique (who looks older than anyone I watch the show with and we are are older than 35 and two are mothers of toddlers).
Oh, I was praying for this guy to go home from the moment he said that
Me too, for real. What an ass.
Andrew gets on my last nerve but his taco sounded the yummiest to me.