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The Big Family Cooking Showdown (2017)
Was a good show, now they've changed the format...
Sadly, Netflix has apparently decided that all of their cooking shows will follow one format. There will be two challenges the first day, and a third on the second day. There will be a mystery basket of ingredients at least once. There will be a technical challenge of some sort at least once.
It worked with baking, it worked with Master Chef, but it falls flat on this one. They needed, desperately, to stick with the original judges, commentators, and format. I was so looking forward to a second season of this one, but now that it's here, I wish they'd never released it.
Todo sobre el asado (2016)
Such a strange movie.
This starts out as an interesting look into the barbecue culture of Argentina, their love of beef, and various regional delicacies. Sadly, about half-way through the film, it turns into an odd melange of barbecue reverence, anti-patriarchical vegan rantings, ramblings about how the entire act is reminiscent of homosexual communes (I'm not kidding, there's a "researched" who spends his entire time comparing barbecuing meat to being gay), and a bizarre back-and-forth battle between a bar owner and a former congressman over whether or not cooking barbecue is "women's work." The first 45 minutes are great.