Several of my friends and I have also gotten back into Diablo 3 in preparation for Reaper of Souls. Almost all of us quit shortly after launch, but we're enjoying the revamp. The farming endgame has opened up a lot to where you have several viable options depending on if you feel like steamrolling through, grinding…
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What are your other favorites? I've only seen "Spring, Summer, […]" and "3-Iron", both of which I really liked.
Yeah, the season was weak not because of Nick, but because of its structure and editing.
I've eaten at Craftsteak in Las Vegas and Craft in LA, and both of those restaurants seemed to exemplify the principles he touts on the show. I wonder how hard he pushed to do something like LCK where he can just judge regular head-to-head food preparation while the producers try to stuff the main show with as many…
I think the main Top Chef show has been bleeding viewers very slowly since season…5 or 6? Masters and LCK are my favorites to watch due to the consistency of production and professionalism on the competition side.
I haven't watched season 3 in a long time, but I don't really classify Hung's four Quickfire wins and up-and-down Elimination placing as "mediocre". He was definitely kind of a dick, but he appeared to be the best technical chef by the end of the season and I remember the finale coming down to Dale and Hung each…
This finale didn't tarnish the brand; if it had presented a poorly structured challenge in addition to the weak editing, then maybe, but the damage has already been done by previous seasons. It would take a finale with a combination of a Hosea-like winner and something like the Iditarod gimmick of Season 10 to…
Completely agree with the analysis and last sentiment. This is one of the strongest potential winner/runner-up pairs in the show's history. Out of Harold/Tiffani, Ilan/Marcel, Hung/Dale, Stephanie/Lisa, Hosea/Stefan, Michael/Bryan, Kevin/Ed, Richard/Mike, Paul/Sarah, and Kristen/Brooke, in my opinion only the…
As a culinary neophyte, one of my favorite recurring Quickfires is the mise en place challenge (or some variant thereof). Last season had a butchering Quickfire and a knife skills Quickfire, there was a mise en place relay in the Texas season, and All-Stars had a mise en place relay and a knife skills Quickfire. …
NYT articles about the Knicks and the Nets this year are hilariously depressing.
The bizarre text justification creating a column of dead space below the header image also bothered me.
They're like bags of sand!
Vishnevetsky is absolutely one of the best writers on this site, especially when it comes to communicating a well-founded critical argument. Whether you agree or disagree with his viewpoint, the context is always there.
The slow chase featured early in Way of the Gun, as well as its final shootout, are standouts of the past decade or so.
Absolutely. And even trying to take a critical standpoint, this was a good episode, where the throughlines made sense and the judging wasn't opaque — nor did the editing get in the way of viewers' appreciation and understanding.
She's a talented observer, absolutely; as a dramatist, she has struggled somewhat. It's because of her reputation as a "giant of contemporary American fiction" that expectations of her writing are so high. Over time, I think better writers will have more interesting things to say about similar experiences, but I'm…
I loved the conflicts between different schools of thought and how they played out among the chief characters. The narratives, for me, got a bit muddled in the final third of the film, but overall I agree with your general point.
I've seen the original cut as well (just once), and while I wasn't completely floored by it, I was seduced by WKW's visual and emotional mode. It's another rendition of the paralysis of romance, but with some beautifully fluid fights interspersed as exertions of frustration, conflict, and tragedy.
Given that Yuen Woo-Ping did the fight choreography for the Matrix series and for this film, you can see it as derivative, or as a do-over with a different guiding sensibility.