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]
Meanwhile, over at Hell's Kitchen I cannot believe that neither Bonnie nor Josh went home.
Eh, Brad was pretty awful too. Actually, Ramsay was spot on - the only one worth a damn tonight was Julia (again). Rock and Jen both basically left their teams twisting in the wind, and the other three were in various degrees of meltdown.
I worry because she doesn't have the food expertise some of the others have, but I'm still gonna bet that if Julia doesn't make it to the final two, it's because somebody (i.e. Rock or Ms. passive/aggressive) sabotaged her.
MY PAST IS NOT SOMETHING I NEED TO SHARE ON CAMERA! MY PRIVATE LIFE IS NOT FOR YOU TO TALK ABOUT! ALL I NEED TO TALK ABOUT IS MY FUTURE...
Yeah, I must just be crazy. Clearly I'm way off base on this...
ALL I NEED TO TALK ABOUT IS MY FUTURE...
WHICH WILL NOT BE IN THE ARMED FORCES. FOR REASONS THAT DON'T NEED TELLING DISCUSSING.
and the ability to perform under pressure that's needed in last week's IC challenge.
This this this this this, so much this.
The whole time I was watching those poor people getting put through that Iron Chef Jr. cruicible, being judged by Bobby and Kat no less, I just kept thinking "that's so cruel!" Not just forcing them to compete in an Iron Chef style cook off, but then forcing them to play Kevin Brauch on top of all that? SO UNFAIR!
And yet, Amy was the only one to ace the whole thing. She should have been there on her own merits, dammit.
I can't figure out Simon Schama (who does Power of Art on PBS, he just spent an hour telling how much he hates the French painter David). Is he just naturally bitter? Is he overwhelmingly jealous that no one's going to remember him in two hundred years? Is he oneof those people incapable of separating the painting from the painter?
Three Men and a Little Lazy are pretty cute.
Is Schama a royalist? Because that would make his hatred of David somewhat understandable, if frightfully dated. The guy did die almost 200 years ago, after all.
I'm just looking forward to next week's ep on Turner--he's probably my favorite painter.
Is Schama a royalist?
I'm not sure, he got very incensed when moving into David's period as painter to Napoleon, something about being just addicted to power, and Schama seems very offended by something about "The Death of Murat". I think Schama has a real detestation for anything resembling representationism in art, that art isn't legitimate unless smart people have to stare at it and debate its Meaning.
Bourdain doesn't like this season's HK:
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