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So I mentioned in my last entry that I baked a whole chicken ... well, being that I am only one person, I had lots of it left. I considered a number of things to do with the leftovers, but finally decided on ... chicken enchiladas! It's the first time I've ever made them (much easier than I had imagined), but they came out great -- especially cool considering I ended up adapting several different recipes and making my own enchilada sauce. I also made Norwich sourdough, which came out really well, and I was thrilled about that too, because the first time I ever made it, it was a failure. Recipe for the enchiladas and photos of both here.
TV stuff:
I love Ugly Betty, but Betty herself is actually one of my least favorite characters on the show. Everyone else has endearing foibles, but Betty herself is often annoyingly righteous and cutesy. Even America Ferrera made this comment recently that bugged -- it was about Gossip Girl not being a positive show for young women, which from what I know of it, I wouldn't argue against. But you know, not every actress is lucky enough to land the kind of role she did, one in which she gets to advance her career while being on a successful show that spouts (mostly) positive messages at the same time. Such opportunities are fairly rare for actresses. And especially considering Blake Lively is her co-star in the Traveling Pants movies, I just thought it was kind of an uncool public comment to make, even if the criticism is merited. It could have been said far more diplomatically, with the onus of the blame placed on society and television and the lack of positive female characters in general, while acknowledging that working actresses have to work.
But speaking of -- I'm downloading S1 of Gossip Girl. It seems SO guilty pleasure. I can watch it when I OD on the sometimes overly sweet Ugly Betty stuff.
I also watched the pilot of Fringe on Hulu and ... color me unimpressed. It's WAY too like the X-Files without any of the things that made XF great (with the possible exception of Joshua Jackson). I find Anna Torv completely distracting, because she has absolutely the worst American accent that I've ever heard! Her acting seems fine, good even, but I can't get over the accent. As Jade says, if an American did a British or Australian or any other accent that poorly, they'd get eviscerated. Within the first scene or two of the pilot, I was Googling her to discover her nationality, and what a surprise it wasn't to find out she isn't American. Seriously, if they really wanted her in the role, they should have had the character be an American who grew up overseas or something. There isn't a single scene she's in where her accent is convincing and I can't not notice it!
TV stuff:
I love Ugly Betty, but Betty herself is actually one of my least favorite characters on the show. Everyone else has endearing foibles, but Betty herself is often annoyingly righteous and cutesy. Even America Ferrera made this comment recently that bugged -- it was about Gossip Girl not being a positive show for young women, which from what I know of it, I wouldn't argue against. But you know, not every actress is lucky enough to land the kind of role she did, one in which she gets to advance her career while being on a successful show that spouts (mostly) positive messages at the same time. Such opportunities are fairly rare for actresses. And especially considering Blake Lively is her co-star in the Traveling Pants movies, I just thought it was kind of an uncool public comment to make, even if the criticism is merited. It could have been said far more diplomatically, with the onus of the blame placed on society and television and the lack of positive female characters in general, while acknowledging that working actresses have to work.
But speaking of -- I'm downloading S1 of Gossip Girl. It seems SO guilty pleasure. I can watch it when I OD on the sometimes overly sweet Ugly Betty stuff.
I also watched the pilot of Fringe on Hulu and ... color me unimpressed. It's WAY too like the X-Files without any of the things that made XF great (with the possible exception of Joshua Jackson). I find Anna Torv completely distracting, because she has absolutely the worst American accent that I've ever heard! Her acting seems fine, good even, but I can't get over the accent. As Jade says, if an American did a British or Australian or any other accent that poorly, they'd get eviscerated. Within the first scene or two of the pilot, I was Googling her to discover her nationality, and what a surprise it wasn't to find out she isn't American. Seriously, if they really wanted her in the role, they should have had the character be an American who grew up overseas or something. There isn't a single scene she's in where her accent is convincing and I can't not notice it!
