Each week Loki is sliding downhill. The plot is chaotic. I don’t have any vested emotional interest in any of the characters. A far cry from season one which was interesting throughout.

Scorcese doesn’t just make movies about Italian gangsters, you know. He’s made movies about such things as the Dalai Lama’s exile from Tibet and about Japanese cryptochristians. He’s a man of the world who is interested in all cultures.

Everyone is saying “Marty” this and “flower moon” that, but no one is saying “Creator” this and “original sci-fi” that!

I honestly thought Oppenheimer would be the pinnacle of cinema for me this year, but I’m fuckin’ hyped for Killers of the Flower Moon.

No Relax? Holly Johnson’s view is that it was seeing the video that caused Mike Read and the BBC to interpret the lyrics in a way that got the song (temporarily and, as it turned out, highly profitably) banned.

This movie just didn’t work. Washington’s arc from AI robot hater to lover is fuzzily drawn and doesn’t connect. And a movie that asks us to be on the side of AI, at this moment in time, is tone deaf. Not saying it couldn’t have made a case, but it required way more depth and nuance than this simplistic story could…

I think you are right—she was insufferable and lazy, making bad vegetarian food and blaming everyone else for the troubles. I remember he made several hundred Euros during that simple lunch, by himself--it always makes me laugh to think about it many years later! 

There was a website in the pre-pandemic days that tracked all the of the restaurants he had visited and how they had done - unsurprisingly, the vast majority had closed, most of them very soon after he had visited, despite the show’s uniform happy endings (other than Amy’s Baking Company, of course). A lot of them…

Came here to say the same. The British version is much more docuseries than the American version, which is pure screaming reality TV. The US version is also clearly very highly scripted, as every episode follows the exact same structure/sequence of events to a T, just replacing the city and style of food.

American audiences, like the American people, don’t want empathy, support and success stories. We want angry, screaming, judgement and failure.

He came to a place in Nashville (my hometown) called Chappie’s. It was supposed to be a New Orleans style restaurant by a chef who had been displaced by Katrina. I had eaten there previously and it was definitely not that great for allegedly creole fine-dining. My friend and I both decided the food was bland.

It’s like people who go on Survivor, but never think to practice making fire. Some even say they’re superfans, so you’d think they’d know that’s important.

To be fair, most POS systems are a complete POS.

I appreciate Edwards’s ambition, but I might more interested if it didn’t have yet another ‘man escorts not-daughter across apocaypltic wasteland to save the world or something’ that I’m already getting pretty tired of.

My favorite UK episode was the lady with the bistro, she never even showed up for lunch service (not enough business to be worth it, per her calculations) so GR whips up a soup special for a reasonable price, opens the place for lunch while servicing and bussing tables, etc., all by himself and he has a crowd—does…

Daily reminder that just because something is original that doth not inherently make it good.

They have friends and family who eat their food and say, “You should own a restaurant!”

The fact that 16% fail is not that really that mind blowing. The study you linked to in the article says 17% of privately owned places fail in a year.  These places already have issues which is why they are on the show so its not a surprise after the celeb chef leaves they end up going back to their old ways and…

Most of all, it exposes how many people get into the restaurant business with absolutely no idea what they’re doing. I know I could never handle owning a restaurant, which is why I haven’t tried to.

I’m intrigued.  It’s hard to imagine topping Dr. Pimple Popper.