It’s funny how a programme can be so different from season to season and yet hold up its quality threshold and dramatic intensity.
Unlike the UK’s Boiling Point which is a one-paced act of unremitting rage (but great all the same) The Bear has many gears in its armoury and in Season Two, more so than one, it finds time to test drive them and show us serenity, rage, humour, regret and hope.
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You know, watching “somebody feed Phil” might not fix all the problems in the world, but it is making me smile and laugh, and in this world we live in where tragedy seems constant, that’s not nothing ♥️
I feel like Gordon Ramsay succumbing to marketing microwaved meals is him throwing in the towel on his food tv career. Like how do you come back from being reminded your face is on the most cardboard lasagna ever concieved every time you try to roast someone for their slightly-less-than-stellar cooking?
Nothing can, and I mean nothing can beat the cosiness and comfort of a lighthearted Jdrama adaptation of manga that revolves around food! So glad to see my four idiots from manga pages come alive! Here are my favourite quotes from the series!
“Because this cafe itself is like a dessert.
This cafe?
Yes.
For example, when you want to take a break at work, you’d grab a cup of coffee or some sweets. Essentially, I think its the same. You can live without it, but you’d feel a little relieved with it.”
“As we get older, we say goodbye to more and more things. I knew that every living thing would come to an end eventually. But still I feel lonely. However, I’d like to think that the time we spent together and being together itself is happiness.”
“Is it okay for a man to give a Valentine’s day gift?
Of course! It has nothing to do with your gender. You can give gifts to whomever you love whenever you want.”
“I think it is a very positive and wonderful thing to love someone. No matter the shape or form. It’s amore.”
“A cafe is not an absolute necessity for survival. If you’re just thirsty, water is fine. However, people go to all the trouble of drinking tea and coffee in a special place. It is not a necessary, but it enriches, heals, and makes you smile. I think people need places lie this to move forward in life.”— Netflix Translation.
Other translated version of the same dialogue:
“This is where I belong.
A cafe isn’t necessary to live, certainly. You can just drink water to quench your thirst. But people go out of their way to drink coffee or tea in a unique atmosphere. We don’t have to exist, but because we do, people feel enriched, soothed and have smiles on their faces. I think a place like this is necessary to keep people going with their heads held high.”
“I’m baking here today, for my son who has rare quadruple cancerous jungle cancer. He’s actually dying as we speak, watching this show from his death bed. This dry-ass strawberry cake is for him, I love him so much he’s my whole world.”
people are acting like we’re saying creators shouldn’t be paid for their work; they absolutely should. and watcher already is. they have a patreon, they get sponsors, their videos regularly get millions of views which gives them ad revenue, they sell merch; they are getting paid. feeling indignant and disappointed that they’re asking us to pay for content we were already getting for free isn’t entitlement, it’s expected. they wanted to make bigger produced shows and now their budget can’t sustain it, that’s not on the viewer to make up for
Pamela Anderson to host Pamela’s Cooking with Love, a plant-based cooking show
The long-time vegan actor’s new venture comes amid a wider reckoning over the media and public’s treatment of the former Baywatch starPamela Anderson will host her own cooking show focused on plant-based recipes.Pamela’s Cooking With Love has been ordered to series by Food Network Canada, with the Canadian American actor set to cook meals with chefs on-screen for her family and friends at her home in Ladysmith on Vancouver Island, where she grew up. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/feb/07/pamela-anderson-host-pamelas-cooking-with-love-plant-based-cooking-show
Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!
Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*
Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!
A Celebrity Chef Code of Ethics sounds like something Eddie Rambler and Simon should discuss. Loudly. With a highlight reel. 😁😎🎥
Noah's sitting at the kitchen counter eating whatever it is they're cooking while they debate it, like "I can record this, right? This is PODCAST GOLD."
The Celebrity Chef Code of Ethics includes rules such as:
Never shit-talk another TV chef's food or aesthetic. (Politics are fair game, although there is debate about this amendment in the community. Don't talk to Eddie about it unless you want a civics lecture and, if he's had a few drinks, two really funny stories about Sandra Lee.)
If competing with another chef on a game show, you should behave in a sportsmanlike manner and be either a gracious loser or a modest winner.
You must never disparage fans simply for being fans.
The internet is real and the things you say on it are real so don't be a real dickhead on the internet. (This one is pending a light rewrite for content.)
Every time you take a step up the ladder of success, pull a few others up with you.
Don't get into it with restaurant critics or, if you do, make sure it's super funny.
If invited onto another chef's show you should either 1) be well-mannered and respectful when appearing on it, 2) decline politely if you don't think you can achieve #1, or 3) appear on the show and subtly troll them the entire time if and only if they are a truly bad person who deserves it.
Guess what Eddie's favorite option on that last one is.
The thing that gets me about a lot of reality television is that its horribleness isn't even novel. The greater part of these shows are just like let's take a totally conventional competition or game show format and go about producing it in the least ethical way possible. No, even more unethical than that. We need to figure out a way to make a baking show violate the Geneva Conventions.
Political ads: My opponent has jacked up taxes every year since he was elected!
Me: Which taxes? Income? Sales? Property? Business?
Political ads: I promise to hold the line on taxes!
Me: Which taxes? What government programs do those taxes contribute to? What gets cut if the lack of taxation causes a deficit?
Political ads: Think about the taxes!
Me: WHICH TAXES. WHICH TAXES ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. TELL ME WHO'S ACTUALLY GETTING AFFECTED BY THESE TAXES YOU'RE SO CONCERNED WITH.
Reminder to always ask what it is that people aren't saying in these ads.
A lot of them want you to think that it is your personal taxes as a working-class person that they're talking about. But if it's taxes on the rich that they're "holding the line on," then they're using your desire to survive with a greater portion of your own income as fuel to keep the upper classes from paying their fair share.
I keep getting the same three or four political ads (half aren't even for the district I live in) and I'm frustrated that they use these transparent tactics and that there are probably people that don't have the time or background to take that moment to go 'what are they hoping I hear in this? What are they actually going to do?'