I’m a parent of two girls, and am the youngest of 10 myself.   Yes the show can be quite difficult, at times, but I enjoy it.   For me, Breeders and Better Things, represent the realities of raising kids better than any other comedies on TV for the past 10 years, perhaps ever.   Kudos to FX for bringing us both shows.

I hadn’t really thought about it, but you’re right. One of the standard quick fire challenges use to be the prep relay, where teams would have to do tasks such as dicing onions, shucking oysters, breaking down chickens, etc. I suspect that part of the move away from this is an acknowledgement that you can be a great…

I don’t know about predatory contracts, as most of the winners have relatively quickly after being on the show, have opened new businesses or expended exiting ones.  I imagine the winner is probably contractually bound to do some events and such over the next year, but it wouldn’t appear to extend beyond that.

My memory may be failing me, but it seems to me the AV Club stopped reviewing the show after the abomination that was Top Chef Texas. That to me was the series nadir. In the damn finale, which was up in Alaska if I am remembering correctly, the chefs had to ski and shoot, and at one point, chisel ingredients out of a…

I actually own two Kitchen Aid stand mixers. My first one, is a white tilt-head model, and I used and loved it for 10 -15 years. Then one day, about 10 years ago, I found myself with an excess of points on a credit card that I need to use, and no trips on the horizon, so I decided to treat myself to an upgrade and…

Spoilers ahead. What rang hollow for me was how Wendy went from being an off the rails, this is happening my way or fuck off, crazy person, to being a loving, sentimental mom over the course of two episodes. I can’t buy that spending a night or two in the mental institution would have caused that dramatic a character…

The CGI on Taweret was outstanding.   I loved the way her ears kept flipping back and forth.   

I was never a Buffy fan, so when the show abruptly switched to a psych ward, I looked over to my wife and said, “Suddenly we are watching an episode of Legion.”

You know what could work though, adding freeze dried strawberries, blitzed into a powder, to make the topping for the pink ones. When I switch careers and open my own fancy bakery, that’s what I’ll do.

My neighborhood panaderia offered Yellow, White, Pink, and Brown conchas.

Mostly not. I mean, I do think the brown ones have cocoa powder in the topping, but I think everything else is achieved with food coloring. I’m talking in your average panaderia. I’m sure there are some artisan panaderias somewhere putting different flavorings in each, but that would be the exception rather than the…

I’m delighted to see Cuernitos on the list. Growing up in Laredo, Texas right on the border, these were and still are king in my book. I live in Austin now, and the cuernitos are harder to find up here. I wonder where the Angela grew up. When I do find cuernitos here, the don’t have nearly enough lard in them. The…

The review may not be satisfactory for you, but having watched the film this weekend, I do agree with the “A” rating.   I’d have to say this is one of the top 5 Pixar movies for me.

“ But anyone without a VPN or a BBC America subscription will get to return to the midlands on June 10.”

I am very uncomfortable with unnecessary poverty, but no my criticism really was about shitty writing.

The class divisions in the commonwealth are so over the top that it has a Hunger Games level of ridiculousness to it. Really, a literal red carpet gala? Mangoes? If this group really thinks spending the amount of time and energy it would take to grow a tropical fruit in that climate is a good use of their…

I sure hope I’m able to come back in a few days and say why I think this review missed the mark, because I was really looking forward to this show.

That edit in the scene with Lydia and Aaron was truly baffling.   “Hang on, I’ll be right back...with magic.”    I’d like to think that the showrunners lost a lot of sleep about whatever f-up resulted in that being the best they could do.

“But jesus, Gideon and Jesse are directly in the line of fire; Gideon does a wheelie to avoid machine gun fire.”

As I was watching Harcourt saying goodbye to Murn, I thought for a second he way going to perk up and fly into har mouth.  I was quietly begging the writer not to do that to us.