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Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner (2019)
Not about breakfast, lunch or dinner
I don't know why they called this series Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. It's not about food. The first episode is more about making movies, so if you're interested in that, you might find It interesting. To me, it's the video version of the Lucky Peach magazine- now defunct. Too much swearing, not enough information. We see them eat food that looks delicious, but we don't learn anything about it. Someone on the set should have told them that getting stoned before filming was a bad idea. It's hard to understand what people are saying when they are both laughing uncontrollably.
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
Not enough Christine Baranski
Baranski stole the original movie with her dance number to Does Your Mama Know? It was the highlight of the film. She's barely present in this sequel, with one good line, and one high kick. What a waste! The young actors in the prequel are good, but they don't have the personality or stage presences of Baranski, Streep, and Walters. The audience I saw this film with was mostly people over 40- I wonder if the producers of this sequel thought they'd appeal to a young audience with a young love story. I think they were wrong.
Stove Tots (2017)
Real Housewives meets Top Chef
This is a terrible, terrible, terrible show! I enjoy cooking competitions, and some shows, like Top Chef Junior, show kids with amazing skills and abilities. This show seems designed specifically to showcase the worst kind of helicopter parents, and to make kids break down. The parents are allowed to hover in the background, and then to give short periods of help or advice during the cooking period, which sounds like a good idea. Except these are the most annoying parents the producers could find. And interspersed interviews with the parents and children only increase the feeling that these are parents living through their children. The judges have no interest in encouraging good behavior- one cook makes healthier versions of classics- out, immediately! One kid helps another contestant when he's not going to get his dish plated- she's out! Maybe this is the attitude that has made restaurant kitchens a hostile environment for a lot of people, especially women.
Midsomer Murders: Habeas Corpus (2016)
Shades of Brideshead?
No one else seems to have noticed the echoes of Brideshead Revisited in this episode. The friend of the brother who has been visiting the manor since childhood and now wants to buy it? His apparent attraction to the friend's sister? And Diana Quick, of course, the object of desire in B.R. Other reviewers have commented on loose threads, but I think some of those, at least, are the embedded reference to B. R.