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The Supersizers: Wartime

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Welcome back! After the unqualified success that was pointing a camera at Giles and Sue as they ate stuff, the BBC snapped them up for twelve more episodes chronicling a spotty and hilarious history of food. This week, it’s Wartime, as Sue and Giles go back to the home front and make do and mend, do their best to entertain GIs, and only occasionally inform people nearby what’s going on. Note: The comparatively dull pilot got away with a normal amount of screencaps. That is…not the case here. VITAL STATS Era: Wartime (the 1940s) Chef Grade: Allegra McEvedy, A++ cheffing Best Guest: The American GIs who appear with their manners booklet in hand and a can of pineapple in their bag, and are amazing sports through a truly surreal teatime. Best Food Moment: Sue eating a lamb chop inside a cupboard. We’ll get there. Worst Food Moment: Sue eating unseasoned, watery nettle-and-snail stew… Equality Now!: …while Giles has a Churchill feast underground. Worst Thing Giles Says: Pretty sure everything he says in the Churchill bunker… Read more »

The Supersizers: Edwardian

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(Technically this is “Edwardian Supersize Me,” because if this show loved anything more than getting its hosts drunk it was renaming the show every two weeks, but we’re going to try and hold things together. There are enough confusing things later.) Welcome to the Supersizers rewatch! We begin at the beginning, with the pilot that brought together Giles Coren, restaurant critic and perpetually awkward man of general questionability, and Sue Perkins, commentator-at-large who is probably dressed by snarky animated bluebirds every morning. Giles is sort of in love with her, which is his most redeeming feature. (Sue is also demonstrably fond of him, which keeps it from being creeptown.) While each episode is delightful in its own way, there’s definitely a structure in place: visit a doctor for a cursory “this is what the past does to you” frame story (spoiler: the past was often unhealthy but sometimes healthy, news at 11), ‘live in’ a house typical of the era, slap on semi-functional period garb, invite people over for awkward and/or amazing times, deal with… Read more »
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