Amazing Race
I’m Like an Angry Cow
This leg of the race had an eating challenge. If anyone had watched the show in previous seasons and seen what the eating challenges have consisted of, they are almost always a lot of meat. I can’t remember one that didn’t have meat. If someone knew they had to eat something, why would they assume it would be vegetarian? It must be the same kind of thinking that believes barreling through the race without stopping to read clues is the way to win. It doesn’t work!
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Top Chef: New York
Melting Pot
Here is a quick run down on the two challenges:
- Quickfire Challenge: Test of skill with three rounds: (1) peel 15 apples with a knife, (2) brunoise two cups of apples, (3) create a dish using apples.
- Elimination Challenge: Create a dish inspired by ethnic neighborhoods
The very beginning of the episode was showing the different personalities of the chefs, which is good in some ways since there are so many of them, you can get them all confused. I watch the show for the food though so I don’t care too much about the behind the scenes drama that happens each season. I really like that the judges stay out of it and are completely in the dark until the season if finished filming and they are watching it along with everyone else on Bravo. I think the most interesting thing with all the different chefs this season is that two of them are from Europe. There is Stefan from Finland and Fabio from Italy. I like that they are mixing it up with people outside the U.S. and wonder why it took so long to happen.
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Tags: melting pot, New York, top chef
Amazing Race
My Nose Is on Fire
This leg of the race included a Speed Bump for Team S&M because they were last in a non-elimination leg. In the past, the game has had nothing happen to teams that came in last in a non-elimination leg. Then they lost their bags and all their money. They only had what was on their backs after that. That was annoying since they had to beg and plead with people to give them money. It wasn’t much fun to watch. Then, they had the teams marked for death where they had a time penalty when they checked into the pit stop. Time penalties are not very exciting to watch either. I like the extra task that they have to do because it depends more on their skills and reading clues like the rest of the race. It’s the same with the U-Turns where teams are sent back to do the other detour instead of just standing around not doing anything for a period of time when there were Yields before U-Turns.
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Tags: amazing race, dehli, india
Amazing Race
Please Hold Me While I Singe My Skull
At this point, I have some definite favorite teams. I’m really rooting for Toni & Dallas to win. I actually like Nick & Starr, even though the divorced ladies can’t stand them. I find the divorced ladies pretty stuck up though. I have tried to like them, but they are just annoying. As much as I don’t like Team S&M or Team Emo, they make for good television so I hope they stick around for a bit to give me something to write about. I’m surprised the frat guys are in the race. They seem to make very dumb mistakes and have been second to last almost every leg. It really does seem to be Andrew and dead weight. Does Dan do anything besides whine? Has Andrew done every road block? Did they get rid of the requirement where each team member had to do an equal number of road blocks?
Continue reading “TAR: Fire Head Lady”
Tags: amazing race, delhi, india
Amazing Race
Do It Like a Madman
Last week I wondered how the blondes got so far behind, which ultimately led to their elimination. I found some video footage that didn’t make the show of them being stuck at a gas station forever not able to get their automatic vehicle started. When they finally asked for some help, the gas station attendant showed them that they weren’t in park. They had been sitting there forever with the car manual out trying to figure out why the car was broken. Oh boy.
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Amazing Race
I Wonder If They Like Blondes in New Zealand?
The divorced ladies were all about causing more drama before this leg even began. They confronted the siblings about how they asked Aja and Ty to U-Turn them. It cracks me up that teams take it personally when another teams U-Turns them or in this case, asks someone else to do it. Starr said she tried to make it better, but the divorced ladies were having none of it. More blah blah blabbitty blah ending with divorced ladies still hating the siblings.
Continue reading “TAR: Crazy Kiwis”
Tags: amazing race, auckland, new zealand
Amazing Race
Did You Push My Sports Bra Off the Ledge?
Before the race even starts, there is drama during the pit stop. The Amazing Race used to show what happened during the pit stop, but quit doing it a few seasons back. It is back again, most likely because there are drama llamas around. One of the divorced ladies, Christy, was drying her sports bra on some ledge. Next thing, it is on the ground, but Starr (one of the siblings) was there so Christy accused her of pushing it off the ledge. Starr said she didn’t, but the divorced ladies aren’t believing that nonsense. Starr said she didn’t know what advantage that would give her, and I agree with her. What would that do? Could it be that it just fell off due to wind and gravity and Starr happened to be walking by? No! That’s unpossible!
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Tags: amazing race, bolivia
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The Mousetrap
I wondered in an earlier episode why Charley and his wife had to be on the run since robots were going to destroy the world regardless where they were. I blanked that Cromartie, one of the Terminators, knew they knew where Sarah Connor would be located. The episode started with them being off driving somewhere and stopping to get gas at one of those random lone gas stations on the road that I have never seen or dared stop at, even when driving from Phoenix to California. While getting a drink from the ancient vending machine from the 60s, Charley’s wife, Michelle, doesn’t realize that the person getting into the truck with her is Cromartie until he starts up the truck and takes off. Oops!
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Tags: mousetrap, sarah connor chronicles, terminator
Amazing Race
Do You Like American Candy?
Sometimes my first impressions change after the second episode. There are some people that I didn’t find annoying, but now can’t stand. There are some people that I thought were annoying, but grew on me a bit. Nothing has changed so far. I still do not like separated couple, Ken and Tina, and I don’t like Team Emo–Terence and Sarah. I think I’d be sad if Team Emo left though because they are entertaining to write about. I just don’t want them to win. While watching this episode, I was pondering a better name for Ken & Tina instead of separated couple. Since she loves to beat down on her cheating man and he just takes it since he was bad, they are now Team S&M.
The teams started out in Brazil on a floating fortress. While resting for 12 hours before they have to go on the next leg, Team Emo was getting all upset over nothing! Don’t be shocked. Mr. Emo was complaining that Ms. Emo was talking to other teams. How can she pay attention to him all day and night if she is interacting with other people? Why doesn’t she understand! He pouted and ran off while she cried in confusion.
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Tags: amazing race
Fringe
The Arrival
The show really started to remind me of The X-Files with this episode. It had crazy creepy people that seem to be doing something that could be helpful or could be sinister like Mr. X or Cigarette Smoking Man in The X-Files. This time, it was the bald guy with no eyebrows, known as The Observer. I think he needs a snazzier name. At the beginning of the episode when he wanted his sandwich as raw as possible and all the peppers on the side, I commented that I wondered if he was an alien like those in Roswell that really liked Tabasco on everything since they loved spicy foods. Then he piled the entire bottle of pepper, his plate of peppers and most of the bottle of Tabasco on it. Maybe he is an alien! He doesn’t seem to age in any picture that they have taken of him over the years. He doesn’t seem to interfere with most things, sticking to his title of The Observer, but he did help Walter save him and Peter from drowning. I completely expected Walter to tell Peter that he had died in the lake and he was really a clone or something crazy like that.
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