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Masterchef Recap: Pray for Death
This episode has no purpose other than to fill in space so the series can last another week, so I am, for once, going to treat the show and its participants with a certain amount of disrespect.
We begin with a close-up of flowers in the ga...
Masterchef Recap: Rise of the Planet of the Grapes
For an account of the now-legendary appearance of Meghan Markle, Duchess of Suits, check my Good Food piece here.
There are four men left. Why only men? Is it institutional misogyny? Is it just random happenstance? Well, neither: it’s actu...
Masterchef Recap: Follow the Bleeder
Today nobody will be going home, so there’s that faint atmosphere of pointlessness around the kitchen. We’ll see some cooking, but we won’t see any real emotional trauma, so it does feel a bit like treading water. But anyway, let’s get thro...
(Late) Masterchef Recap: A Sauce Is Born
Outside the Masterchef kitchen, jackals howl and vultures perch on gutters, waiting to feast upon the wretched remains of an eliminated cook. It’s black apron day, and one of the final six will go home - if they’re lucky, that is, given the...
Everything Wrong With The Odyssey (2026)
There have been so many claims and counter-claims about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, a movie that has already become the first film ever to debut with a negative box-office take, as angry cinemagoers storm theatres to demand the managem...
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