The Bear (FX on Hulu) TV Show • Page 56

Finale spoiler there are few people who can play a smug dickhead better than Joel McHale. I almost thought they were about pull a "he was actually nice, Carmy's mind is just fucked" thing, but nope they doubled down making that dude a straight up sociopath

 

5 episodes in. I’m enjoying it, but it feels different. It feels kind of unfocused?

 

Definitely. That was my takeaway from the season as a whole. Still good, great performances, and some amazing individual episodes; but the overall season arc just came off as unfocused, disjointed, and a little messy.

Also felt like some of the dialogue would go back and forth between excellent to eyerollingley self indulgent in an instant.

 

This is going to be a season that everyone calls the worst one and that i think is the best one. I definitely agree that nothing really happens but i kind of like how vibe-y it is and it feels like a nice bridge from one era of the show to the next.

 

I think the highs are definitely in the first half of the season

And yeah as much as the hospital episode was necessary it was like 80% a bottle episode and I wasn't super into it

 

Mk.gee!

 

need a gif of this

 

Realized I barely started s2 when word that s3 just came out, so I’m playing catch up. And might I say, as I’m sure others have, god DAMN.

I don’t understand how they do it. Incredible writing. Everyone firing on all cylinders. Perfect show.

 

Finished the Season 3 finale and okay I get why it underwhelmed some. I didn't mind how it ended but as a patient man who LOVED episode 1 there were definitely moments in the last two episodes where I thought, "Okay, you can stop holding on this person's face now." Episode 9 was the first time the writing fell a little flat to me (was it a different writer that episode?) and things moved too slowly and felt inconsistent.

Even so, The Bear at its weakest is better than most shows at their best and I'm satisfied with this season overall.

Update: Okay, interesting. Episode 9 did have a different writer, but the only other episode that writer wrote was Forks which is legendary. Fascinating.

 

Worst part of the season - of the show - was all the celebrity chefs talking

 

The amount of time spent in a finale listening to people who aren’t our characters was wild. Didn’t feel like a finale at all.

The season did start to feel somewhat flat to me after the Tina episode, but the first half was strong as ever and I think it’ll all work better as a whole when season four drops since it was all originally supposed to be one season. Just hope it’s not a full year before we get it

 

Doesn’t help the rest of the season stand out as much with a premiere as great as that one tho

 

Episodes one and six are 2 of the shows best.

 

I see that. I did really enjoy the second half of the finale, basically from Carmy getting worked by Chef Joel McHale and onwards I really enjoyed it.

 

I didn’t mind the celeb chef stuff only because I kinda like Syd participating and seemingly belonging in the convo while Carmy couldn’t have possibly been less present if he tried lol

 

I think my issue with them is 1) they sound very stiff and awkward to me, 2) they feel very self-serious except for the very nice lady from Kasama, which is an incredible spot, and 3) i really don’t like Christina Tosi from milkbar lol

 

couldn’t disagree more

not nearly as bad as the writers forcing so many Fak scenes on the viewers

 

That feels VERY realistic based on the chefs I’ve known lol

 

It definitely is lol and Carmy, Syd, Chef Terry, etc. are also just as self serious. But they’re fictional, and they aren’t usually talking about themselves in that way, or if they are it’s tempered by demonstrating all of their flaws and such lol

I’m not trying to say food can’t be art or high concept or shouldn’t be taken seriously. I think people who treat it as a craft are really cool. I just think there’s a level of navel-gazing coming through the screen there with the particular group they assembled and the way the scene played out that reeeeeally took me out of it.

 

True. At this point I expect there to be 100 Faks in season 4 and that the Faks will establish a military junta over Chicago in season 5.

 

There were maybe 2 too many fak scenes and the cameo didn’t work for me really. I’m assuming since Matty is a producer he wanted more screen time.

 

Tbf, having one weirdly jacked quirked up white boy is common in large Chicago families

 

I found the haunted stuff incredibly funny

 

I just love Matty so I enjoyed his scenes

 

Yeah i liked the haunted stuff too, feels like a good bit