Meet Mary Berg, your new cooking-information infatuation GlobeArts
There are more cooking shows than any of us could possibly watch. There are competitive shows, gimmick shows and oodles of other content that is either plainly silly or amounts to food porn. Do we need another one? is anchored by Mary Berg, the winner of MasterChef Canada in 2016. Berg, a twentysomething charmer, is all geeky enthusiasm and concentrates on simplicity. “Nothing too fancy!” is something she blurts out often. She has both presence and a natural sense of self-deprecating humour.
In the period since she won the competitive show, Berg has only launched a small catering business and done some TV appearances talking about her recipes. You can tell she hasn’t an ounce of cynicism about TV nor has she developed the kind of egotism that so many TV cooking stars display. It’s a delightful, attitude-free new series.
In the first episode, it’s Berg’s mother Myra who comes along to enjoy the meal – herb-and-garlic-stuffed lamb tenderloin with oven-roasted asparagus, garlic-and-herb flatbread, and a strawberry-rhubarb galette for dessert. It has more charm than one hundred other cooking shows combined. “Woo-hooo! It’s the easiest home-made bread ever,” Berg shouts at one point. True, perhaps, and making a series with this kind of agreeableness isn’t easy at all.
The pilot follows Harrison Brennan a doctor on his way home from work at a big hospital in Chicago. He’s going home to partner Daniel and their daughter Jira . Stopping to buy milk he’s caught up in a robbery situation, and is shot and killed by rookie cop Paul Evans . What unfolds is how the shooting has an impact on the cop’s family and the victim’s family, and the entire neighbourhood. Complicating things is the fact that Jira’s real mom, Tia Young is running for local election.
It’s different when a network drama tackles race and crime, and the Black Lives Matter cause. Everything is more heartfelt and unsubtle. As dramaarrives on Netflix this weekend. It’s a supernatural thriller that has Uma Thurman and Tony Goldwyn playing the parents of a heart donor who discover that their daughter may not be quite as dead as they first thought. That’s because the young woman who receives the heart appears to become a very different kind of person.
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