It’s so good! I love the format and the way it alters the playing field between Michelin stars and, like, the lunch lady. So many new-to-me foods I wanna try now! (Though the skate can still miss me. Will never forget chefs weeping “it burns!” at the fried skate during Hobi’s fridge.)

Thanks to Fridge Show, I’m p sure I remember who wins, and yet I am still yelling at the tv at certain match-ups. And ingredients. And I am HERE for all the team reactions.

Cooking shows are usually at least a little bit horny (the good ones, anyway), but this is like the fine dining equivalent of Alton Brown and his spreader bars: undeniable.

And the two judges being blindfolded and handfed in the second round isn’t inspiring ideas at ALL, I can assure you. The lingering closeups on bared mouths vulnerable to hands of faceless servants, quiveringly eager chefs of all levels, slo-mo chewing whaaaaat.

I don’t think any of us, Namgi included, are emotionally prepared for their first time(s) back onstage and performing. At ALL.

Forget singing while running; I am so impressed he can sound so good whole maintaining that absolute death clench on the balloon ropes.

The Astronaut is truly one of the great concert-finishing belt-along songs. The “there is no one else” and final “and I looooooooooove you”s are just unmatched for feeling grounded in THAT moment in THAT space with a the people around you.

Speaking of unprepared, all seven of these goobers together performing and playing on stage? Affirmatively choosing to be together, bringing more fully rounded individuality to songs old and new?? The future wide open ahead of them??? Nope.

Jin laughing at Army is really the engine that drives this show, and bless his heart for figuring out how to shape an entire concert tour around it.

Nonono, the psychological preparation for being lovingly scolded by Jin is ENTIRELY different than assuming the crash position for this much j-hope chest and hips before 7am. I am UNPREPARED.

Dude, it took me over two months from my last full day in the office to be able to even open L*nk*d *n without feeling genuinely nauseated. I support you several thousand percent in taking your time/being kind to yourself. Enjoy a job-free/-lite festive season!

This is exactly the kind of travel I want to plan when my hypothetical travel agency becomes even marginally less hypothetical! ::sighs dreamily::

I hope Yoongi, who went first to show them all the way, has been helping Hobi, who took a Lolla-to-Lolla full circle, and they can now welcome Jin, who held it down by himself for a year, with a soft place to land.

I hope there is some kind of comfort they can take in each other, the three who know what it is like to hold down a tour by himself, who know what it is like to come to the end of that tour alone, exhausted and emotional and slammed back into the rest of your life like the end of a moving walkway.