This year's Sewing Bee is better than last year's Bake Off
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
I’ve never seen Sewing Bee!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
Ahh you would love it I'm sure, and the current season is great
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 22 June 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
Unlike Bakeoff it took a few seasons and presenter changes to work itself out tho
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 22 June 2020 00:05 (three years ago) link
Figuring out Sandy's nationality was like watching Inception.
― Pleeenk Floyd (Leee), Monday, 21 September 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
Have you heard her Apollo 11 story?
― koogs, Monday, 21 September 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
I have not!
― Pleeenk Floyd (Leee), Monday, 21 September 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
New season starts on Netflix US this Friday 9/25 😃
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 September 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
From Wikipedia
"In 1969, her father covered the landing of the first man on the moon from mission control. Toksvig was holding the hand of Neil Armstrong's secretary during the landing."
(She recounted this, and a bunch of other stuff you wouldn't think would happen to one person, on various QI episodes)
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 06:02 (three years ago) link
Hooray, actual likeable contestants this year instead of Innocent Smoothie labels in human form
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
Interesting/edgy that the woman who enjoys scandi metal chose to commit a hate crime with her Louis Theroux cake
― crisp, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
the technical accident and the result of that round was good tv.
they must've been quarantined with the presenters and tv people for, what, 2 weeks beforehand. i wonder how much mingling there was. and if they got to go straight home afterwards or faced another fortnight in isolation.
― koogs, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
Laura's resemblance to Theodora from I May Destroy You was unnerving.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/09/22/23/33477066-8761361-Digital_manager_Laura_31_looked_to_be_feeling_the_heat_in_the_ki-a-30_1600814097535.jpghttps://tvarchive2020.bradfordzone.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2020/05/Harriet-Webb.jpg
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 12:59 (three years ago) link
Anything else would just make it a holiday rather than a bubble, surely? Also bits of the 'journey'/'kids are my life' narrative ring a bit hollow if you leave them at home alone in the middle of a pandemic; I noticed this when they said one of the guys was "part-time carer, full time dad" to two daughters. Does that mean they/he were shielding? If so then leaving them is a big deal.
Interesting to see how this will change the production of the show - if we assume 10 episodes, filming is normally at the weekends so it's 2 1/2 months. Now, assuming back to back filming, it's done and dusted under 3 weeks.
This week I'm not sure anybody's baking stood out so this may be a personality-driven series. Also lol we are old, one of the entrants remembers John Whaite inspiring him "when I was just a kid".
Hats off to the one who said she never wanted to eat baking again, before the first cake was out of the oven.
― Mud... jam... failure (aldo), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 13:00 (three years ago) link
It was filmed over six weeks: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/sep/20/pizza-by-paul-flowers-by-prue-how-great-british-bake-off-built-its-covid-bubble
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that Guardian article pretty much agrees with my assumptions and clears up discomfort over home Vs TV bubbling.
― Mud... jam... failure (aldo), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
Really enjoyed the new episodeThe cake busts challenge was v good tv!poor Freddy Mercury & David Bowiehttps://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2020/09/Mercury-Bowie-GBBO.jpgTom DeLonge cake was a) lol and b) terrifyinghttps://www.nme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/TD-and-cake-696x442.jpgMarie Antoinette came out surprisingly awesome tho!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
tbf, the mercury and delonge cakes are pretty recognizable!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
It was all good tv and I felt so bad for the lady who bumped into the guy at the end of the technical challenge We’ve really missed Noel’s voiceover giving the contestants’ bios, always the best part of any season
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
It was pointed out on Extra Slice last night that Marie Antoinette was actually David Cameron.
― Mud... jam... failure (aldo), Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
yeah that was rough
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
(xpost re the woman that bumped into the guy)
re Noel’s voiceovers the one where the woman was a pantomime producer who did yoga in her spare time & enjoyed listening to Scandi metalmade us fully crack up laughing i made up my own contestant voiceover script feel free to play along“VG is a chicken sexer from North Whistlington. She worships the Outer God Yog-Sothoth in her spare time & lives with her half sister in a haunted bakery where they enjoy listening to calliope music.”
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
guy who got his cakes bumped seems a little socially awkward, he seemed to be having a hard time acting anything other than really pissedbeen on both sides of that problem of course
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
plus the stress of being on-camera for the whole thing cant be easy to deal with
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
oh yeah, there's no way i would ever go near a reality show.hollywood's "you signed up for it mate" about the closest i've gotten to empathizing with him
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
It was all good tv and I felt so bad for the lady who bumped into the guy at the end of the technical challenge
i know he'd just had his cakes knocked over but that guy (who is in the tent days after his wife has given birth, iirc) was really ungracious about it and had a bad energy imo
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah to be clear I think that guy is probably Qanon-curious at a minimum
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
ah the internet, where you can go from "guy-who-wasn't-happy-about-having-his-cakes-carelessly-knocked-to-the-ground" to "yeah, he's probably a 9-11 truther" in twenty minutes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
i made up my own contestant voiceover script feel free to play alongWe do this too!
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
cmon i dont think he deserves that level of flaming. humiliation & disappointment are pretty hard feelings to mask in the moment, even for a Britisher.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
As they also pointed out on extra slice, she was flailing long before he got anywhere near her. But she was obvious gutted and moreso when she won.
There was no joke about what the judges were about to get up to either.
― koogs, Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
No judge chat before announcing the winner either
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
trust me i know pass/agg arsehole British blokes, this guy is almost definitely oe of them [prepares to have assumptions destroyed next week when he turns out to be good egg, I honestly don't think there's ever been a bake-off contestant i didn't like]
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Sunday, 27 September 2020 06:23 (three years ago) link
I feel like I watched a different show from the rest of you! I barely noticed the man whose cakes fell; he was like the intact paste of other chewed-up humans. Meanwhile, the lady who knocked down the cakes seemed (to me) rude throughout the episode and then shed crocodile tears to make the drama about herself, followed by visible embarassment. I thought she was very selfish! Suffer in impotent shame like the rest or us, geez.
― rb (soda), Sunday, 27 September 2020 13:36 (three years ago) link
What are examples of her rudeness?
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Sunday, 27 September 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
Rudeness maybe the wrong word – maybe 'ungracious' is a better one. "I feel sorry for whoever has to clean up after me," (smirk); "I don't like Battenburgs" ; "I don't want to eat cake again" ; "half of the Batttenburg is in the oven, it's like toast, it's horrible." eyeroll, sneer, turning her back on the bland guy right in the middle of him saying, "it's okay, accidents happen."
― america's favorite (remy bean), Sunday, 27 September 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
"I don't like Battenburgs" ; "I don't want to eat cake again" ; "half of the Batttenburg is in the oven, it's like toast, it's horrible."
i don't think ungracious is really the word for this but maybe the typical brit sense of humour doesn't travel very well? she just seemed funny to me
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Monday, 28 September 2020 07:25 (three years ago) link
I thought she came across as mostly nice, smart and funny so idk
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Monday, 28 September 2020 09:38 (three years ago) link
Yeah, my partner had already said "Okay, I like her" before the cake nudging incident - and I think she was genuinely mortified over it.
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Monday, 28 September 2020 10:27 (three years ago) link
Sura is VERY London - I was sold on her when they showed footage of her walking a leashed cat in front of her estate.
― santa clause four (suzy), Monday, 28 September 2020 11:19 (three years ago) link
Ha! Yes, that was exact moment that sold Sarah, too!
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Monday, 28 September 2020 11:26 (three years ago) link
Definitely agree with you, Stevie. Those remarks seemed very much like jokes.
I thought it there was a strange energy in the tent, as if everyone knew each other and the presenters better than in previous series (but maybe that's just the way Matt Lucas is with everyone? Just instantly friendly?) but also everyone's nerves were stretched almost to breaking point, and anything at all could have set them off. I wasn't surprised that there was an accident in the first round. Hopefully (for the sake of their own sanity) they'll all have calmed down a little bit by this week.
― trishyb, Monday, 28 September 2020 12:33 (three years ago) link
Lockdown, innit? Weird vibes all round, I'm betting.
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Monday, 28 September 2020 12:47 (three years ago) link
I mean, soda feels what he feels, obv. I liked Sura, thought she was very deadpan in general (exchanges w Noel lol) and actually mortified at the cake-knocking.
No surprise though that soldier cosplay armored guard couldn't pass off graciousness. Son, we have had an actual prison warden who had better manners than you.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 28 September 2020 13:02 (three years ago) link
This thread, from the favourite group of a particular bit of ILM:
When we were 16/17 we had one of those teachers you never forget (1/9)— The Clientele (@theclientele) September 23, 2020
― Tim, Monday, 28 September 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link
That’s great.
I love Rowan: he’s like a non-miserable Kenneth Williams.
― santa clause four (suzy), Monday, 28 September 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
We think he looks like old ben whishaw. Except we like him.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 28 September 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
Oi, disliking Ben Whishaw is NOT ALLOWED. Few things more hilarious than watching Paddington 2 and A Very English Scandal as a double bill (“Hugh Grant just bummed Paddington!”)
― santa clause four (suzy), Monday, 28 September 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
Aw thats so great!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 September 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link