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Oh man, is it? I watched the David Chang's Chef's Mind and it turned me off so hard on him. He was so overcompensating bro-douche. I have only been to one Milk Bar and had bare minimum at the noodle bar. Like, he's sooooo bro-tastic. I was surprised and wanted to slap him with a pork loin.

And then since I am asian I had to question whether I was being hard on asian men trying to be douchey bro as a counterpoint to the nerdy/weak asian stereotype. But whatever, he isn't doing me any favours.

he is only moderately broey to me, which... may mean something

you're not asian

I'm half. So i guess i am half douchey apologetic.

His was the worst season of Mind of a Chef but I think maybe they just hadn't gotten the style down.

Like David Chang needs to get a better publicist I cringe when I watch him..

I watched 3 season's the only one that stood out was the Prune restauranteur.

I see it's called The Mind of a Chef. OK>> carry on.

Edward Lee's cookbook is pretty good, his half season made him look like much less of a douchebro than his stint on Top Chef.

Fred Armisen's standup special peaked at mildly amusing.

bro mind, chef body

xp agreed and cringeworthy at several points where it appeared he was actually bombing (?) which is an odd thing to see in a televised special

Fred Armisen's standup special peaked at mildly amusing.

― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 9:24 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Absolutely correct. The funniest thing about it to me was just the audacity of Armisen seeming to not even try to elicit more than a dry chuckle. That appears to be his sole ambition.

Oh man, is it?

Possibly skip the first episode where he and Aziz Ansari go for pizza but the taco one is genuinely very good - there’s a lot of Peter Meehan and Chang in listening mode and it’s as much about immigration and identity as it is about food.

And then since I am asian I had to question whether I was being hard on asian men trying to be douchey bro as a counterpoint to the nerdy/weak asian stereotype. But whatever, he isn't doing me any favours.

The Looming Tower adaptation seems to be out there, will check that out laters.

curious how the hell they will play that
hoping for scene of young OBL riding his horses and watching old US westerns on VHS but ready for disappointment

I'm hoping some dramatisation of OBL's maverick, machine gun toting/daredevil pilot/joker of an older bro Salem, who once sent medical video footage of an an anal procedure he had to King Fahd as a joke.

yeah i remember that bit lol

it's on hulu not netflix but i kinda ended up getting bored with the looming tower. it's a very by the book tv movie kinda thing. almost like an old-fashioned tv movie from the old days. cardboard characters. maybe worth watching if you don't know how it ends...

so i just went back to watching The Unit. #rebeccapidgeon4lyfe

the Fred Armison is morbidly fascinating, so cringey it took me three different nights to get through the whole thing

^ couldn't hack that one

i hate him

all the anti-fred stuff going around is making me not want to watch the portlandias i haven't seen. i did enjoy portlandia on occasion.

I'm probably never going to watch any more of that Aziz Ansari show because Aziz is the most irritating, least interesting part of the show. Maybe if they made a new season without him in it.

I really liked Fred in The Documentary Now! episode "Juan Likes Rice & Chicken"...

you would think that sleater-kinney wouldn't want to hang out with a big jerk if he is the big jerk everyone is saying he is. they are totally anti-jerk.

I have no beef w Fred but that special is a tough ride, again redeemed only by the expression on J Mascis's face immediately after the NPR routine

yeah i wasn't gonna watch that.

i like portlandia and documentary now! but the drum comedy special was terrible

and Trenchmouth! what a fuckin band....he really is a great drummer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGZg131YSc

Fred looks like rick moranis

The last I heard about Armisen was his bad bad break up with Elisabeth Moss. He did an in-store drummer character set when I worked in a record store in Blyn awhile ago. It was eh...

why would elisabeth moss marry a non-scientologist anyway? doesn't seem like enlightened alien people would want to be with one.

maybe she's the church-of-england of scientologists, where she claims to be involved but really just runs a tea stall once a year

Surprised there are no #metoo stories coming out about Fred.

I mean, a bunch of stuff came out a couple of years ago, well before the movement.

i think comedians in general are just horrible boyfriends and spouses. 85% of them.

That’s funny

that's the irony. they just make their families cry.

every single photo i've seen of armisen is total "mothefucker with dark secrets"

I had to stop watching Morose Schlump I mean Patriot eight episodes in. I really like the way the story's put together and told, and I could stomach the self-conscious quirksiness, but if you're going to have your main character be such a charisma blackhole, it needs to be earned and explained. He's just sad?

someone cattle-prod Elizabeth Moss ffs. She's totally mogadon in everything. spangled to the hilt.

serious q though is she really just totally baked all the time?

zapped her with the scientology machine a bit, eh?

To me, she has a nice un-plastic surgeried, expressive face. It's a shame about her being scientologist but most religion might as well be scientology.

I like Moss in a lot of stuff, Mad Men (Peggy is the best character), 'The One I Love,' 'Queen of Earth' even West Wing but she's not a huge selling point on a movie or show in and of herself.

she would be now, surely

i'm not a fan. she reminds me of someone i might know. but not in a good way. like maybe one of my kid's teachers or something....i don't know who. someone. people i've known. or people who have had to explain things to me in municipal buildings in a sympathetic and patient tone because they knew i was a mess and also that i had the mind of a child. but that's my problem. i was not a peggy fan. i really wanted to be. i didn't want to watch handmaids tale because of her. actually most of the people in that show were kinda dud-like to me. (i feel the same way about The Path on Hulu. Maria watches it and she always asks me why i won't watch it and its mostly because the people in it are so unlikable to me. i don't care what happens to them.)