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Jack'sBucks wrote: ↑18 Jul 2022 16:25 pm I just got Hulu and was thinking about checking it out, but no thanks. Quite frankly, I find America's preoccupation with chefs and food to be highly disturbing.

I didn't make any friends here before when I posted about this, but America needs to go on a diet. The US obesity prevalence was 41.9% from 2017 to March of 2020. Nearly half of this nation is obese. And the economic and social impact of obesity has risen to nearly $1.4 trillion dollars, up from $976 billion in 2014.

I have a lady friend that's a doctor, and her ex-husband works as a surgeon at county. He's a busy man...lots of diabetic amputations...business is booming.

A few years ago I went to a music festival in Hollywood and saw Deep Purple, Alice Cooper and Edgar Winter. Great show, but I had to be relocated by the management because I had no where to sit. The people sitting on either side of me were huge...they literally overflowed into my seat.

The same thing happened to my wife and I at the LA Coliseum on Christmas Eve in 2016. We went to see the Rams play the 49ers and we couldn't sit in our seats. We were surrounded by San Francisco fans that weighed like 400 pounds. It was a nightmare. When the Coliseum was designed and built 100 years ago, people were much smaller. Those seats do not work for today's football fans.

American's should be eating to live, not living to eat. We're actually evolving into a different species. In the past 40 years, American's feet have increased an average of two full sizes to support our girth. I think that speaks for itself.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

Chino wrote: ↑20 Jun 2023 15:01 pm Guess I’ll need to jump on a quick Hulu trial. Glad they released them all at once.

Dicktar wrote: ↑21 Jun 2023 10:54 am

Targaryen wrote: ↑15 Jan 2023 02:00 am

Jack'sBucks wrote: ↑18 Jul 2022 16:25 pm I just got Hulu and was thinking about checking it out, but no thanks. Quite frankly, I find America's preoccupation with chefs and food to be highly disturbing.

I didn't make any friends here before when I posted about this, but America needs to go on a diet. The US obesity prevalence was 41.9% from 2017 to March of 2020. Nearly half of this nation is obese. And the economic and social impact of obesity has risen to nearly $1.4 trillion dollars, up from $976 billion in 2014.

I have a lady friend that's a doctor, and her ex-husband works as a surgeon at county. He's a busy man...lots of diabetic amputations...business is booming.

A few years ago I went to a music festival in Hollywood and saw Deep Purple, Alice Cooper and Edgar Winter. Great show, but I had to be relocated by the management because I had no where to sit. The people sitting on either side of me were huge...they literally overflowed into my seat.

The same thing happened to my wife and I at the LA Coliseum on Christmas Eve in 2016. We went to see the Rams play the 49ers and we couldn't sit in our seats. We were surrounded by San Francisco fans that weighed like 400 pounds. It was a nightmare. When the Coliseum was designed and built 100 years ago, people were much smaller. Those seats do not work for today's football fans.

American's should be eating to live, not living to eat. We're actually evolving into a different species. In the past 40 years, American's feet have increased an average of two full sizes to support our girth. I think that speaks for itself.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

That was an absolutely spot-on Bill Maher impression.

Ronnie Dobbs wrote: ↑06 Jul 2023 13:18 pm

3dender wrote: ↑01 Jul 2023 09:32 am Don't really get Ronnie's criticism of the dialogue, it feels very authentic to me, maybe except when Sidney and Carm always keep talking over each other without ever actually communicating anything. That's pretty irritating. But overall the authenticity of the characters and their interactions is what sets this series apart. It's in Wire-tier for me in that aspect. Any elaboration on your complaint is welcome Ronnie.

Don't really know how to explain it. When the characters are talking and interacting regularly, I don't have a problem with it. When they're going back and forth really fast sometimes, whether it's joking around with each other or something, it just feels a bit too cutesy for me. It reminds me of Shia LeBeef in Transformers, just talking really fast. I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy.

I really do like the show, I should say. Not one of my favorites of all time or anything, but I think it's really good.

Dicktar wrote: ↑30 Jun 2023 15:37 pmAlso, there is no way any 3 star restaurant is going to let Ritchie work the front of the house and keep that disgusting facial hair. A full, well-trimmed beard, maybe, but he looks like he just woke up on Tuesday morning of a weekend bender. (I realize that's in character, but all the more reason to have him shave to undscore his transformation)

FrankTheTank wrote: ↑07 Jul 2023 10:10 am

The dialogue in Fishes (AKA the Christmas episode) was extremely frenetic and at times pretty unsettling - you could feel the extreme tension during the dinner table scene right before Michael snapped. That said, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bob Odenkirk, and John Mulaney all nailed their guest appearances. One of the best ensemble television episodes I've ever seen.

It was exhausting, plus trying to figure out exactly who everyone was. Who was Sarah Paulson's character? A cousin right? And then her boyfriend, who people thought was gay, was John Mulaney. I could not figure out who Bob Odenkirk was until at least half-way through, I thought maybe the mom's new boyfriend before realizing he was their uncle. That episode was so insane, but you are spot on, they were all terrific in it. I can't even begin to think how hard that episode was to shoot. I think Jamie Lee Curtis gets an Emmy nod for her role, even though she was only in 2 episodes...she left quite a mark.

Ted Striker wrote: ↑04 Feb 2024 09:54 am Ayo Edebiri hosted SNL last night and she was really great at it. She started in standup and it showed. It was the best episode of SNL in years.