I'm not talking about minorities per se. I'm talking specifically about black contestants. Nearly every season, the most talented singer by far is a black contestant, usually a female. And they never even get to the final 4, let alone win.
Javier Colon is not black. Look at the last name. He's Puerto Rican and…

Implicit in your argument is your assumption that I did not vote. How did you come to this conclusion? At what point in my comment that you replied to did you say "a ha! He did not vote!"

I watched this last season, but this last season will mark my final season of viewing. The three most talented people in the final 12 were three black women. And by talented, I mean off the fucking charts talented. And they kept getting voted out one by one to make way for white singers who sounded like Muzak. And I…

How southern and Midwestern viewers vote out all the exponentially more talented black singers to coronate a boring and inferior white person? That's pretty shocking too.

Oh yeah, I hope I made it clear that I wasn't passing judgment. Like you, I don't care one bit. And similar to your thinking, I also believe she's a beautiful woman. Not to mention an amazing actress, which is what I really care about. The cast on this show just kills it, literally and figuratively.

Easy Jet will be your friend while living in London. Florence is my second favorite city in Europe (Berlin can never be beat IMO). Despite the countless times I spent weekends there, I still miss it.

I'm by no means an expert on the subject, but I would say it's fairly clear she's had quite a bit of botox. She has that Sandra Bullock / Nicole Kidman face-not-moving thing going on.
All that being said, I don't care one way or the other. Her business, not mine. I judge these folks on their ability and to a lesser…

They already made a musical comedy about Hannibal with Steve from Married with Children as Hannibal. I think it was called Silence! or something like that. It was ok. Just… ok.

That was my sense too. So many of those shots both indoors and outdoors MUST have been filmed in Italy and France. We don't have architecture like that in the US, and I doubt their production budget would allow them to build sets like those.

Ping me if you have any questions. I love helping newbies pick appropriate operas to see. Next season has a lot of the classics on the schedule.

You can get season subscriptions for as cheap as $150 or so for 5 operas if you're ok being in the back row of the auditorium all the way at the top. The shows are designed to be performed for every seat in the audience to enjoy the show. They also do standing room tickets for $30, which are on the orchestra level…

Oh right. I forgot about some of Margot's clothes. She's got some serious statement pieces in her wardrobe. I don't recall Freddie ever having been dressed to the nines, but I'll take your word for it.

I was getting an Uma Thurman in yellow leather motorcycling through Tokyo en route to scalp Lucy Liu + hundreds of other people vibe. I don't know enough about film history to know if they're drawing from the same source material for inspiration.

This is the first time I remember them going all out on wardrobe for any character other than Hannibal, and certainly the first time for a female character.

This is an Adam-Levine-free zone. It is a safe place.

I know what you mean about the show being hard to watch. I loved every second of it, but after a year of completely mindless tv, I've temporarily forgotten how to flip the analytical switch into the on position to watch a tv show. I think I need to binge watch the last few eps of season 2 to remind myself how to watch…

I'm a season subscriber at the Met, and it's always easy to tell when there's a lot of people from Italy in the audience. Just ask yourself after a flubbed note "do I hear booing?"

But when you watch it on Netflix, it's too late to join the conversation on here. This board more so than any other tv show's board has the most engaged and erudite (and oftentimes hilarious) group of commenters I've ever personally seen.

Anyone get booed? Just the name "La Scala" strikes fear into the heart of every opera singer. Those are some unrelenting and vocal patrons.

it's as though this conversation never happened!
it was very fun watching someone I know very well on the show, but super bummed it went down the way it did. oh well.