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He didn’t just snap one day. It was planned. He wanted a new life with his gf and she wasn’t really interested in his kids. She wanted him to have a kid with her. She wanted to give him his first son.
When you watch and read other info about the case, you learn there’s a lot more to the story than what is shown in this documentary. There’s more info found on chris’s cell phone, and the gf’s cell phone, and the family computer
I thought that was a very real and meaningful moment. And it was the third and final time that word came up in the series. Pity you were to squeamish to continue. And no, they’re not all the same.
Probably because he lives it in real life
How much do you know about the uk population? They have numerous accents too. England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland all have their own numerous regional accents, plus the uk is well-peopled with emigrants, refugees, relocated folk, etc. from all over the globe.
West’s point is likely more along the lines of Americans can’t tell the difference between Mike Myers and an actual Scotsman, Englishman, etc.
It’s just so tacky and cliche.
Just watched the scene in Borat. Not surprised. Not surprised at all.
I read somewhere that Jackie’s son doesn’t exist in the Conners Universe.
I honestly think they were deliberately playing it campy. It was such bad acting.
Tubi app has it (free viewing).
You’re deliberately avoiding the point.
Plus there’s
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tax-returns-new-york-times-debt-deutsche-bank-irs-1067422/
Oh god. The country really is doomed
Of course, but then there wouldn’t have been a script
Apparently VOTERS didn’t DESERVE to know that TRUMP DOESN'T PAY INCOME TAX
When the kids were discussing it, they mentioned that their mother didn’t have a will.
Just watched the second half of the south region semi finals. I wondered if, once again, a french patisserie chef had done himself in by going too far off brief with an extremely loose interpretation of chocolate cake. Additionally, his meringue/macaron based creation was TOO chocolatey. The judges admitted they could each eat only one bite. That should have kept him out of the finale. But it didn’t.
During the judges’ deliberations, they admitted they were also considering whether their two chosen winners would stretch themselves and reach beyond their comfort zones to wow the judges in the finale. Despite both the greek pastry shop and the family bakery out-performing the french patisserie in the Judges’ Choice chocolate cake round (Mich couldn’t help taking multiple bites of their delicious chocolate cakes), the french pastry chef won. Clearly, the judges preferred the other two chocolate cakes. But the judges had deemed That both bakeries would be reluctant to stray from their comfortable repertoires and were thus eliminated in favor of the french chef who should have lost by default.
Which begs the question: why are the local family bakeries competing against classically trained french patisserie experts? I loved both semi final winners: Saveurs and Mark Bennet Patisserie. They’re fun to watch. But so were the family bakeries. They belong in two different programs.
P.S. as much as I enjoy watching the French chef work, what is up with that horrible braid/queue/rattail hanging from the back of his head?! Ugh! I wish someone would sneak up behind him and snip it off!!
I’m watching the south region semi-finals and the family bakery is up against all the pastry chefs. They are easily outmatched. I agree that they could and should have stepped out of their comfort zone and tried something even a little more ambitious than their regular repertoire. They didn’t even make their own chocolate icing for the eclairs- they brought ready made icing in a tub that is mass produced for the food industry. (At one point, while all the pastry makers were flying around the kitchen, working so hard to complete their complex pastries, the family bakers were standing still, eating slices of bread.)
This is why there should be two different series, one competition for best patisserie, and a separate competition for family bakeries producing English traditional regional specialties. Each would be interesting in their own right. But pitting one family bakery against patisserie specialists seems unfair, and very uninteresting.
Episode 4 had a french pastry chef LOSE against a family bakery. Nice surprise, except it wasn’t a surprise because the pastry chef’s creation for the baker’s dozen was so far from what it was supposed to be. His Cherry Genoa cakes were overwhelmed with a chocolate casing and a huge load of chocolate mousse. But the cakes themselves were dryish, lacking cherries, and more like an after thought to the rest of his pastry.
The winning bakery’s Speciality Bake failed to impress (Kentish Apple Cake). Once again, the local traditional cake was outshined by a french chef. This french chef made salted caramel macaron For the Speciality Bake, which was highly favored over the traditional local apple cake.
If the french chef hadn’t gone so far off brief for the Baker’s Dozen, and had concentrated more on the cake than on showcasing more skills and techniques (which he bragged at the finale would carry him through), he would have won easily. Ultimately, it was lousy cake, sunken cherries, and too much chocolate that did him in. The family bakery only won by default.
Cornish pasties
Bedfordshire clangers
Lancashire courting cake
Kentish Apple cake
Lardy cakes
Custard tart
Battenberg cake
Parkins
Rock cake
The 1990s decade was a while ago, but it wasn’t the 1950s. Plus I just saw another instance in series 6, which is dated 2003. It was jarring. In an American program, such an incident would make the viewer think negatively about the character, suggesting he has an alcohol problem or that he disregards regulations and operates outside the rules.
Barnaby does occasionally skip some steps in his investigations (conducting searches without a warrant.), but I don’t believe viewers are meant to infer Barnaby considers himself above the law.
Perhaps in the books Barnaby did operate outside the law all the time? (When were they published.) It was pretty common in 1970s US police dramas to find officers acting on their own, searching without warrants, occasionally acting the vigilante. But programs have gotten “smarter” and sharper since then.