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‘Crucio!’ yelled Harry Potter / MasterChef director

The softer judging style won points and a vastish audience, swerving MasterChef from the reality show delights of humiliation drama.
But you just know the director did well in his wizard classes – he kept flinging ‘Crucio!’ at the two contestants. That’s the “unforgivable” torture curse, as in, you know, excruciation, or crucifixion, or something.
In last [...]

Humiliation drama

So I’ve finally caught up with season one of the series du jour, Mad Men. (On DVD; yes, could have saved the money and streamed it but one has to keep struggling with the fun/work balance on the computer.) Watched with eyebrows racheted up to max and mouth in generic O-shape, as in OMG. Patriarchal [...]