Red Mosquito

doug rr wrote:team Joe..ice chips was great

daft twat wrote:I don’t think this is far and away the best show on tv, but I like it a lot.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote: This season is meandering a bit.

daft twat wrote:

doug rr wrote:team Joe..ice chips was great

Just saw it and agree.

8 eps down and I don’t get the hate. I have enjoyed every episode. Ice Chips really made me see Sugar for the first time. She’s so fucking great.

If I had one minor gripe, it’s the Faks. This show doesn’t need Rosencrantz and Gildenstern doing haunting bits in every episode.

I don’t think this is far and away the best show on tv, but I like it a lot.

Spoiler: show

Sugar constantly asking if JLC called Pete, leaving to suppose that she did not and could totally be on brand, really escalated the dynamic of the episode for me.

daft twat wrote:In 2010 my wife and I went to Chicago for a weekend to see Louis CK and Ricky Gervais at the Chicago Theater on back to back nights. That was mainly for me. As a thank you to my wife, I booked us a table at Alinea despite the insane $500 price tag. The chef Grant Achatz was in the beginning of the season 3 finale as Carmie was looking at pictures. Anyway….

I can’t remember how many courses there were. A lot. They were all wild. For dessert, Chef Achatz actually came to the table and made it right in front of us on the vinyl table cloth like a Jackson Pollock painting. It was fucking ridiculous. All of it was amazing and none of it was the best anything I ever had.

This show perfectly emulates the “fine dining” experience. We consume most tv and most food in a mindless way. These restaurants and this show force you to stare at each dish/moment and appreciate the art and also the ridiculousness of it all.

No one has the best meals of their lives at these places. Those meals are born of real hunger or a good buzz after a concert or a long vacation day, and they’re usually comfort food. Like most of the tv most of us watch.

The Bear is great. It’s Binaural. I’m so glad we have both. But I like Ten and Curb Your Enthusiasm more.

Ps. Finished the season
1) Will Poulter looked like a giant next to JAW. I looked it up. 6’2” vs 5’7”
2) Weird ending
3) Could Olivia Coleman be Professor McGonnegal in the HBO Harry Potter series? She so great, and I can’t see anyone else following Maggie Smith.

daft twat wrote:In 2010 my wife and I went to Chicago for a weekend to see Louis CK and Ricky Gervais at the Chicago Theater on back to back nights. That was mainly for me. As a thank you to my wife, I booked us a table at Alinea despite the insane $500 price tag. The chef Grant Achatz was in the beginning of the season 3 finale as Carmie was looking at pictures. Anyway….

I can’t remember how many courses there were. A lot. They were all wild. For dessert, Chef Achatz actually came to the table and made it right in front of us on the vinyl table cloth like a Jackson Pollock painting. It was fucking ridiculous. All of it was amazing and none of it was the best anything I ever had.

This show perfectly emulates the “fine dining” experience. We consume most tv and most food in a mindless way. These restaurants and this show force you to stare at each dish/moment and appreciate the art and also the ridiculousness of it all.

No one has the best meals of their lives at these places. Those meals are born of real hunger or a good buzz after a concert or a long vacation day, and they’re usually comfort food. Like most of the tv most of us watch.

The Bear is great. It’s Binaural. I’m so glad we have both. But I like Ten and Curb Your Enthusiasm more.

Ps. Finished the season
1) Will Poulter looked like a giant next to JAW. I looked it up. 6’2” vs 5’7”
2) Weird ending
3) Could Olivia Coleman be Professor McGonnegal in the HBO Harry Potter series? She so great, and I can’t see anyone else following Maggie Smith.