The Great Pottery Throw Down 2023 episode 2
The Great Pottery Throw Down 2023 episode 2: Siobhán McSweeney sets the 11 remaining potters a deceptive challenge, in which they must make a keepsake box with a disguised lid and perform an unusual task while blindfolded. Judges Rich Miller and Keith Brymer Jones must decide who is potter of the week and who will leave the pottery.
This week’s tricky task is a great way to get to know the 11 remaining contestants — and for them to exhibit their artistic flair. They must slab-build a keepsake box with a secret compartment that reflects a dominant interest. These range from mudlarking and dance to science-fiction and beekeeping. And despite the odd droppage and kiln-crack, the creations are all without exception amazing. But the technical challenge — to throw three stacking mixing bowls, blindfolded — unsurprisingly exposes a few wobbles at the wheel.
Less a TV competition, more a collective of creative souls and like minds, Throw Down is back for series six with leg-mended Siobhán McSweeney back on hosting duty and Rich Miller and Keith Brymer Jones taskmastering as usual. And straight away, challenge one raises the emotional stakes with a tea set “dedicated to someone you love”. Soon it’s not just Keith with a lump in his throat but the contestants, too.There are nerves and droppages, and despite all the clay wedging, the creations are in the lap of the kiln gods. Yet the warm, catch-all camaraderie is infectious. Who wouldn’t be sad to be shown the studio door by the judges?
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