well, in retrospect it does make sense - if you're gonna learn to speak perfect idiomatic Earthling, there's no reason why it would have to be some whitebread newscaster dialect…

"This idea, as I said to our composer Jeff Russo, that the show should sound like Dark Side of the Moon, so he went out and he bought the patch cord synthesizer they use in the show."
- Noah Hawley, in an interview with Alan Sepinwall

thanks for that link!

sooooo, you're implying you _weren't_ getting fired every week?!? I think you might've been doing that whole "touring band" thing wrong…

my own distaste for Andy Cohen had erased the memory of the mere existence of Watching Live-ish Happenings Now (or whatever the hell it's called) from my brain, therefore your line about 90s Garofalo (whom I also love as much as I dislike Cohen) was a *complete* head-scratching non-sequitur!

just watched the episode, haven't read the review or any of the comments, but had to come here right away to say:

umm, maybe point out to her that the show has made a habit of using surreal hyperbole for emphasis or effect? and then be prepared to choke down your own metaphorical gallon of yak piss as she punishes you for the condescending mansplaination ;-)

So *that's* where Ellen May ended-up after she left Harlan!

her name is "Fen" - it's a nod to a completely different character from the books also named Fen, but apparently they're not going to use that plot. Also, her father in the show ("Dint" the weapons-maker) is named for another person from that same book-storyline
mild book spoilers: in the books Dint (a magician I…

I read somewhere that the showrunner was psyched cuz their new FX house (they switched from last season's contractor) was able to let them do a dragon this season, so we have that to look forward to!

how about: evil baby was horrifically defending itself, and Reynard was there in disguise as the receptionist to gloat

They might've figured it was now too on-the-nose, given how they're kindof using it as a mission statement for the show

btw, just started watching episode 5, and it seems clear now that they're definitely using it to contrast the bland/boring "real" (and in this case corporate business) world with the exciting, colorful (literally) world of magic

in fairness, he might do something like that every time, but it just hasn't shown up in the edit (deliberations reportedly taking multiple hours in many cases, 95% of the footage being left on the cutting-room floor)

long holiday weekend & haven't watched until now - actually not even through the whole episode but just had to come here to say…

ba-dum-dum (crash)

Right, I completely agree that the show *actually* determines which of a season's cast of competitors can do better at a series of artificial challenges (that happen to be cooking-related). But at least having LCK gets them a little bit closer to achieving their stated/ideal purpose of determining the "top chef" of…

My rationale for LCK is, if TC is really about finding out who's the best "chef"
(given a show-constrained cooking competition vs. a working restaurant), then having a (kind of) double-elimination format allows the better chefs to have at least some chance at overcoming artificial show-induced failures. The cream has…

Thanks for the tip!
woot!

"Tell Julia I'm going fox hunting" - love that line!