Hot Docs Review: 'Set!' Makes Competitive Table Setting Actually Seem Interesting Directed by Scott Gawlik
Published May 03, 2021
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You've been setting your dinner table wrong this entire time. That much is clear after Scott Gawlik's
Set!, a superb dive into California's competitive tablescaping scene.
The film follows participants in the six month lead-up to the Orange County tablescaping fair, which they prepare for with the same intensity and determination that one imagines Tom Brady might for the Superbowl. Forks have to be placed just so, fingerprints on the glass won't do, and if your menu makes reference to "soup" but you've got a consommé bowl on the table, you're as good as toast.