Look. You like Brooke and I like Shirley. Period. The fact that we disagree means nothing other than that. I could ask you why YOU're twisting things but that would be childish and we can't have that. Let's just agree to disagree and move on.

Having the courage of your convictions is tantamount to wearing blinders?

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She actually smacked herself on the forehead and said, "I cannot believe I forgot my protein!" Wonder why she changed her story

And graham Elliott even remarked that Brooke's clams were a "little too much" for a first course.

Calling the 3rd course a tie is purely subjective. I'd bet that if polled the judges would have given that round to Shirley, if only by a hair. They loved brooke's beans, liked her pork belly, but didn't seem to feel it was remarkable in any way—-whereas they absolutely loved Shirley's dish.

Oh my god. As a judge, Paul Hollywood is enough to make me stay away!! Cannot ABIDE that man. The fact that he began a relationship with Marcella forget her last name Mexican chef while each was married doesn't help.

That show!!! It's simply the best, period, dot. I think I've watched each episode twice and don't see myself slowing down anytime soon.

I hear you. I said even more
upthread about the Brooke pork belly entitlement bit, which was kind of astonishing. I could never give up on this show primarily because I'll watch just about anything related to cooking unless it has Guy Fieri in it. But I understand where you're coming from.

Then why do you continue to read them?

I don't disagree that Brooke is probably well-rounded, even-keeled and level-headed (some of the time). Technically superior? Maybe (but not to Shirley). Is she passionate? Emotional? Does cooking bring her endless amounts of rapture and joy? Not in this lifetime. Brooke brings to mind a highly-trained robot…

Ummm…did Brooke ever thank Shirley for the pork belly?? If so I sure missed it. I DID hear her thank God for it; not sure what he had to do with it, but I do believe it was Shirley who deserved the thanks.

Her beauty was unquestionable; I'll not waver on that score. Particularly when she was very young, those huge, luminous eyes, the bone structure, and the very pouty mouth—-my God. Obviously this is all very subjective but I'll take her face over Gigi Hadid's any day.

Petherbridge. I might have even seen one or two of the Carmichael eps but can't remember. That one looks as though it was shot on videotape which I refuse to watch, period.

Oh, James M Cain!! Don't get me started. One of my favorite writers, along with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler and Ring Lardner.

I do, too. She was an absolute and rare beauty. In her very early films, before she'd learned many of her mannerisms and was a blonde, she was absolutely breathtaking.

That movie has always stupefied me, largely due to how incredibly strange (and sorry, downright ugly) Davis looked—-and this was at the period in her career when she was at her most luminous. Finally found out why —-apparently there was much drama around final negotiations and who gets to do what and for some…

Was it on this film that Davis and Merrill fell in love and married? Can't remember and too lazy to look it up. Now THERE's a tempestuous relationship.

There's actually a weird Brit series (from the 70s or 80s?) about Lord Wimsey. It sucks. Very disapppointed as I loved the books!

I never saw him when he was NOT a milquetoast. Pity he was lost in the war, though.