Aieeeee - "Uncorked," the sommelier reality show

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Sharon Bowman

Sharon Bowman
OK, I was given a sidebar on some site telling me that a new program on EsquireTV.com (??? this is a thing?) has been released. It is called "Uncorked."

One can watch the first episode, which I have just done.

The story is that there are six New York City sommeliers who are gearing up to try to pass the Master Sommelier exam. (Viewers are told ab initio that only some 200 persons have passed said exam in its 40 years of existence.)

Now, the movie "Somm" made many of us lose the will to live. This new iteration I would not recommend, aside from the fact that though it's staged in a completely amped-up-music way, and with all the petty cruelties of the competition/reality television world, it still is a little bit interesting, and the "participants" are real folk that some of us know.
 
I caught a bit of that show while looking for the GOP debate. It looked pretty insufferable to me, but I didn't watch even half the show.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
I caught a bit of that show while looking for the GOP debate. It looked pretty insufferable to me, but I didn't watch even half the show.

Mark Lipton
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You stumbled across something insufferable while searching for the GOP debate?
Let the thousand punch lines bloom . . .
Best, Jim
 
originally posted by Florida Jim:
originally posted by MLipton:
I caught a bit of that show while looking for the GOP debate. It looked pretty insufferable to me, but I didn't watch even half the show.

Mark Lipton
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You stumbled across something insufferable while searching for the GOP debate?
Let the thousand punch lines bloom . . .
Best, Jim
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most of TV is pretty insufferable these days.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
most of TV is pretty insufferable these days.
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I actively watch "Elementary" and "Big Bang Theory". Anything else I see is incidental.
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I still enjoy Chopped though the "specialty" shows (teen chefs, military chefs, cafeteria chefs) are starting to get on my nerves.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
most of TV is pretty insufferable these days.
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I actively watch "Elementary" and "Big Bang Theory". Anything else I see is incidental.
Click to expand...

I still enjoy Chopped though the "specialty" shows (teen chefs, military chefs, cafeteria chefs) are starting to get on my nerves.
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Chopped is our son's favorite program apart from BPL games and Men in Blazers, so I've seen quite a bit of it. Not bad most of the time. I didn't really want to watch the GOP debate but I felt compelled as a citizen to subject myself to at least a bit of it. In the end, I just caught the CNN summary.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
most of TV is pretty insufferable these days.
Click to expand...
I actively watch "Elementary" and "Big Bang Theory". Anything else I see is incidental.
Click to expand...

I still enjoy Chopped though the "specialty" shows (teen chefs, military chefs, cafeteria chefs) are starting to get on my nerves.
Click to expand...

Chopped is our son's favorite program apart from BPL games and Men in Blazers, so I've seen quite a bit of it. Not bad most of the time. I didn't really want to watch the GOP debate but I felt compelled as a citizen to subject myself to at least a bit of it. In the end, I just caught the CNN summary.

Mark Lipton
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i have some guilty pleasures like The Black List. i have no idea what is going on because the plot is impossible to follow but Spader is fun.

Chopped would be way better as half hour show. It just drags on forever. But i do watch it sometimes.

i also like House Hunters Int'l.
 
Great British Bake Off. It's so....British. It will satisfy any anglophile cravings, more so than Downton Abbey, IMO.
 
I'll wait for the crossover episode with Survivor ...

For me these days, it is pretty much fake news only. Trevor Noah's doing a pretty good job, imho, and Larry Wilmore's progressing. John Oliver brings up the rear.
 
I fear you've fallen for his alluring British accent. He must get that a lot.

Kidding.

Reasonable people can disagree. He's a wee bit twee for me.
 
originally posted by Florida Jim:
originally posted by MLipton:
I caught a bit of that show while looking for the GOP debate. It looked pretty insufferable to me, but I didn't watch even half the show.

Mark Lipton
Click to expand...
You stumbled across something insufferable while searching for the GOP debate?
Let the thousand punch lines bloom . . .
Best, Jim
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Let the thousand punch lines bloom made me laugh! Did you make that up?
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
No, seriously, reasonable people can disagree. Except perhaps in New York.
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Just puzzled about your use of "twee," which doesn't fit. John Oliver is the most cutting, informed and by the bye funniest person on that type of television. He also swears like a longshoreman.

His timing is flawless, his buoyant delivery is like puppies but then downshifts to wrenching in three to five ways, etc.

I never thought I could care about some of the things he delivers on, and that is of course the point. I am the lambda audience for this show, because I am reluctant to get up in arms. Yet up the arms get.

ETA: I also never-to-rarely guffaw audibly when watching television, and yet you can put that in the ledger for John Oliver's show, as well.
 
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