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axleblaze posted:Man food shows are sort of in a dire place right now... The Great British Baking Show is a fantastic series. It is a very straightforward competition with some awesome classic desserts and without any faux drama or negativity.
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Jan 23, 2016 03:09
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Top Chef also remains as the one-true cooking competition show. That's the only one where if you win/get far it actually means something in the restaurant world.
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Jan 23, 2016 03:37
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I haven't seen it. So basically the opposite of master chef?
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The Great British Baking Show is the most pleasant and soothing thing in the world. Even the contestants seem relaxed. They start the timer and everyone just kind of putters around for a while before they start mixing their ingredients or whatever. Highly recommended.
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NESguerilla posted:I haven't seen it. So basically the opposite of master chef? Yeah. It's on Bravo so there's some contrived bullshit in there, but they get really amazing chefs (most of the time) and put them through real challenges. It's up on Hulu as far as I know. Also I have a soft spot for Master Chef because I love Gordon Ramsay and sometimes some of the stuff the people do on that show is ridiculous. The season 2 winner, a blind woman named Christine Ha, is incredible and has some really delicious recipes.
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MasterChef is a favorite junk show of mine. Watch it if you want to see Gordon Ramsay scream, with true fury, "you DO NOT serve a COWBOY undercooked steak!" I don't recommend sitting down to just watch it, but great to put on while cleaning or packing or something.
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Jan 23, 2016 04:08
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I mention this every time the movie comes up but my absolute favorite thing about the FE is the completely uncommented-upon fake white Ruby Rhod who's hard of hearing. I don't think I've ever noticed this, or even heard about it until just now.
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GonSmithe posted:Top Chef also remains as the one-true cooking competition show. That's the only one where if you win/get far it actually means something in the restaurant world. Yeah, a bunch of former Top Chef people are still relevant a decade later: Marcel, The Voltaggio Bros., Carla Hall, Fabio Vivani (note that only one of these people actually won their season). It's like American Idol in that way. X-Ray Pecs posted:I don't think I've ever noticed this, or even heard about it until just now. It's most prominent in the preamble to the Diva Plavalaguna segment. It's a gag that's like five seconds long, and then the character comes back later for maybe ten seconds to do some funny business with Dallas.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Yeah, a bunch of former Top Chef people are still relevant a decade later: Marcel, The Voltaggio Bros., Carla Hall, Fabio Vivani (note that only one of these people actually won their season). It's like American Idol in that way. I eat at Stephanie Izard's restaurants whenever I get a chance, several of the best meals I've ever had.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Yeah, a bunch of former Top Chef people are still relevant a decade later: Marcel, The Voltaggio Bros., Carla Hall, Fabio Vivani (note that only one of these people actually won their season). It's like American Idol in that way. Marcel is, and will always remain, the loving worst, though. I met and became friends with my now best-friend from college because he wore a TEAM FABIO shirt to a party once.
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My two least favorite contestants in the entire history of the show are Marcel and Ilan. What a couple of little fuckin' weasels.
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wafflesnsegways posted:MasterChef is a favorite junk show of mine. Watch it if you want to see Gordon Ramsay scream, with true fury, "you DO NOT serve a COWBOY undercooked steak!" I don't recommend sitting down to just watch it, but great to put on while cleaning or packing or something. This works for most Ramsay shows, Kitchen Nightmares is my goto show for background noise or for a slow nightshift at work.
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Gaz2k21 posted:This works for most Ramsay shows, Kitchen Nightmares is my goto show for background noise or for a slow nightshift at work. Service industry reality shows in general are the best to just put on in the background while you are doing something else. They are always super entertaining and stupid enough that you never feel like you missed anything by barely paying attention. Bar Rescue is my personal favorite trash show.
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NESguerilla posted:Service industry reality shows in general are the best to just put on in the background while you are doing something else. They are always super entertaining and stupid enough that you never feel like you missed anything by barely paying attention. Bar Rescue is my personal favorite trash show. Same. For some reason Taffer hollering at people never gets old to me.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:My two least favorite contestants in the entire history of the show are Marcel and Ilan. What a couple of little fuckin' weasels. Was Marcel the one who served sriacha ice cream to children? I just remember him yelling about NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT REAL COOKING IS NO YOU SHUT THE gently caress UP DAD or somesuch nonsense.
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I finally watched A Young Doctor’s Notebook . I wish I had started this show a long time ago. Daniel Radcliffe plays the titular doctor, and Jon Hamm plays the very same doctor a decade or so down the line. Thankfully the two interact on screen together, because their chemistry is absolutely fantastic.The young doctor is sent to run a rural hospital, just outside of nowhere, just as the Russian Revolution begins. While the rest of the country is being reborn, he feels he is stagnating, as innumerable peasants pass through the doors of his hospital. He spends his days treating syphilis, performing amputations, administering medications, and treating syphilis. The bleak reality of everyday peasant life in Russia meshes perfectly with the utterly bleak humor of the show. The gore, the laughs, and the grey snow all play off each other perfectly to make one of the most delightful miniseries I have ever seen that deals with frequent child death. If you like black humor, this is as dark as it gets. And I can’t recommend it enough.
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red19fire posted:Was Marcel the one who served sriacha ice cream to children? I just remember him yelling about NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT REAL COOKING IS NO YOU SHUT THE gently caress UP DAD or somesuch nonsense. It was some utterly bizarre ice cream flavor like that that no child could ever enjoy, and he had a habit of putting foam on everything.
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I've been watching the first season of Hannibal on Prime. While I don't actually like it, per se, I am hooked for two reasons; the total absurdity of the murderers, and Mads Mikkelsen's incredible wardrobe.
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deoju posted:I've been watching the first season of Hannibal on Prime. While I don't actually like it, per se, I am hooked for two reasons; the total absurdity of the murderers, and Mads Mikkelsen's incredible wardrobe. It's certainly my favorite cooking show.
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deoju posted:I've been watching the first season of Hannibal on Prime. While I don't actually like it, per se, I am hooked for two reasons; the total absurdity of the murderers, and Mads Mikkelsen's incredible wardrobe. This show is so pretty that all of its flaws don't even matter after the first season.
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Whoever wrote that was right on the money. Really good premiere and the last several minutes are indeed full of WTF. Really looking forward to seeing where this one goes. Apparently it is based on a UK series of the same name. Anyone here seen that version?
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I binged through Friday Night Tykes and it's actually pretty good. There's a bunch of coaches bullying kids moments but there's also really touching stuff and surprisingly neat game footage. The games are really nicely shot with some cool dramatic slow-mo shots edited in. It has a kind of Any Given Sunday feel to it at times.
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Atheistdeals.com posted:Every nerd gushes about Edge of Tomorrow which makes me feel weird for thinking it's kinda lousy. Edge of Tomorrow and Mortal Kombat are pretty much my platonic ideal of movies that don't aim terribly high, but hit the mark dead on. EoT seriously justifies its existence with that montage of Tom Cruise dying over and over again alone. (Cruise rolling under the truck, followed by that CRUNCH sound and Bill Paxton going "What the hell were you thinking?" made me lose my poo poo.)
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pahuyuth posted:Apparently it is based on a UK series of the same name. Anyone here seen that version? I saw the original version whenever it was on tv a few years ago and at first I really enjoyed it, but then they just kept trying to stretch it out further and further and the plot contrivances got thicker and my patience grew thinner. I feel they should've quit after one series of 4 episodes. I mean by the time they were fannying about in South Africa I wondered why the hell I was still watching it but like an idiot I stuck it out to the end. So, fun at first but outstayed its welcome.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Same. For some reason Taffer hollering at people never gets old to me. My favorite thing was to pause it and take pictures of him yelling at people. I used to have a bunch of these.  
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wafflesnsegways posted:The Great British Baking Show is the most pleasant and soothing thing in the world. Even the contestants seem relaxed. They start the timer and everyone just kind of putters around for a while before they start mixing their ingredients or whatever. Highly recommended.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Same. For some reason Taffer hollering at people never gets old to me. I think it's because every other host is putting on a show; Taffer is legitimately insane.
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red19fire posted:Battle Creek...created by Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad Vince Gilligan wrote a script for the show in the early 00s and it was rejected, then after BB got big they dug it up out of the trash and made a series out of it. That's pretty much Gilligan's entire involvement in the show, which makes them leaning so hard on namedropping him to promote that much funnier.
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I just started watching The Expanse (have to stream it from Apple or Xbox, still airing the first season). If you're a space nerd or liked BSG and aren't watching this show then I don't even know what to tell you. Anyone watching Dark Matter? I gave two episodes a try. It was pretty good but the design of their logo thing is so fricken stupid I wanted to turn it off on that alone.
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NESguerilla posted:My favorite thing was to pause it and take pictures of him yelling at people. I used to have a bunch of these. Lord what a goblin. However, if you see him dialed back you could see how someone would want to be around him for more than five minutes. red19fire posted:Was Marcel the one who served sriacha ice cream to children? I don't remember that specifically, but he is best recalled as "the foam guy".
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Blind Rasputin posted:I just started watching The Expanse (have to stream it from Apple or Xbox, still airing the first season). If you're a space nerd or liked BSG and aren't watching this show then I don't even know what to tell you. I think I got about three episodes into Dark Matter, and wasn't really that drawn into it. I really disliked the spaceship set. It tries so hard to be gritty looking, but it ends up looking unfinished.
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Four episodes into The Expanse and it's just simply loving amazing.
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It's the colorized version so you'll have to futz with your settings, but Amazon Prime has Forbidden Zone and it's got titties, Tattoo from Fantasy Island, Oingo Boingo with Danny Elfman as Satan, those two dudes from UHF, singing, dancing, giant frogs, more titties, everything you need.
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Bone Tomahawk was definitely worth a watch. Very tight, simple plot while being interesting. Great acting, and I especially loved Richard Jenkins's character.
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Dark Places is in Amazon Prime. Never heard of it until tonight, but it was definitely worth your time if you like writerly crime thrillers.
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Netflix finally put Monsters back up. I forgot how incredible this movie is. drat it's an incredible indie film. I still can't bring myself to watch the sequel, has anybody seen it? Does it suck as bad as the reviews say it does?
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Monsters and its sequel, Godzilla, both own.
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magnificent7 posted:I still can't bring myself to watch the sequel, has anybody seen it? Does it suck as bad as the reviews say it does? I didn't watch the first one, but Dark Continent is solid.
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