04-15-2013, 10:15 AM | #1 |
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The Great British Sewing Bee
The Great British Sewing Bee is this cute, quaint little reality TV series about tailoring. (Says it's about sewing but so far everything's been clothes. No needlepoint artwork, no quilting, just pure clothesmaking.) Six women and two men were invited to compete for the title of Britain's best amateur sewer. Each round spans two days: on the first day, the contestants participate in two shorter competitions; while on the second day, they partake in a single challenge that lasts the entire day. After each round, two people are eliminated. That's the way it's been thus far, anyway, so the series looks like it's only going to be four episodes long if it keeps up that pace whereas it'll be six episodes long if it slows down now to single eliminations.
I don't really buy into the whole "Britain's best amateur sewer" angle, but that hasn't prevented me from enjoying this quaint reality TV series for what it is. Sewing one's own clothes and other cloth-based items (drapes, quilts, etc.) really is a lost art in much of the developed world, so it's quite fun to watch these contestants show what they can do. It's akin to watching competitive sports that've also fallen out of common practice (like horseback riding or archery) blended with other domestic reality TV programs (like those to do with cooking or home renovation). I never thought I'd watch two hours of people sewing skirts, dresses, and blouses, but here I am. So give her a look and see for yourself if you like it.
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Bit of an anglophile, Talon?
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04-15-2013, 12:56 PM | #3 |
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A, no, there's plenty about England or English culture that I don't particularly care for. (For starters, Doctor Who, even the reboot, was so boring and silly to me I put it on indefinite hold in the midst of
B, lest you forget, I'm half English.
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Your opinion on Doctor Who is noted and burned in the hellfires which it belongs in. Half English? Cool.
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04-15-2013, 06:50 PM | #5 |
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This looks a lot worse than it really is (I swear ;_; ) :
Spoiler: show Back on topic, the show really is cute as it's sort of like "the competitive sport of tailoring", if such a thing could be done with tailoring. That's what this series seems to have tried to go and do: make sewing something which viewers at home can find engaging even though sewing is ordinarily one of those things that is infinitely more boring to watch someone else do than to be doing yourself. I really have to praise them for managing to defy that property of sewing. Given who the judges are, though, I get the impression that the remainder of the series is going to be a) all clothes or else b) clothes for all except one which will be a token quilt/drapes/something perfectly ordinary. Where are the plush dolls? Where are the needlepoint pictures? Where are the tapestries? I realize that tapestries and chemises are like the apples and aardvarks of the art-with-cloth world , but still. I would've liked to have seen more than attire being crafted here. Fingers crossed that they'll surprise me in one of the remaining two episodes.
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Just finished Episode 03 of this. Will watch Episode 04 later. Pleased with the judges' decision on who to send home this round:
Spoiler: show If I had to guess who I think will win it all in the end, it would probably be: Spoiler: show
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