Taskmaster – Season 17

    A very close second to last season’s brilliance – this saw the lateral-stylings of Jon Robins, the carefree madness of Joanne McNally, the timid & good-natured earnestness of a Dracula-costumed Nick Mohamed, the borderline incomprehensible logical leaps of Sophie Willan, and introduced me to the complex mind of Steve Pemberton (which prompted us to have…

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      MasterChef 2024

      The bespectacled ogre and his scrotum-faced keeper drag another batch of hopefuls through the repetitive competitive kitchen-based challenge, this year spicing things up by bringing back a busload of near-misses from last season. Was that for variety, or because there weren’t enough entrants? At any rate, this time next year I’ll probably still be struggling…

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        Griselda

        Sofia Vergara’s Spanish-language piece about drug queenpin Griselda Blanco. I’m not 100% sure why the prosthetics were necessary, but other than constant background distraction this was a pretty intense bit of escapism. I think I wanted to shout at the TV at a few points (“WHAT THE HELL MADE YOU THINK SMOKING CRACK WAS A…

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