I skipped over most of your review cuz I’m only 6 episodes in, so I just saw the Mikey/Tina exchange, which was incredible. But I tend to agree with the snippets of criticism I’ve heard about much of the season. And it’s kind of wild to me that they finally open the restaurant and instead of pushing full steam ahead with that, we’ve been…
I skipped over most of your review cuz I’m only 6 episodes in, so I just saw the Mikey/Tina exchange, which was incredible. But I tend to agree with the snippets of criticism I’ve heard about much of the season. And it’s kind of wild to me that they finally open the restaurant and instead of pushing full steam ahead with that, we’ve been getting a lot of flashbacks, which I don’t think are necessary even though the actors are still killing it.
The closing of Olivia Colman’s restaurant was a gut punch and I love that from a narrative perspective. The reaper is always hanging over restaurants. It’s a brutal business; which again makes it frustrating that The Bear is still choosing to focus efforts elsewhere in s3.
A side note: there would be no way to give adequate space to Jon Berenthal, Jeremy White and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. The Bear would be a different show and it would suck w/o the star power of Ayo Edibiri if it was just white guys yelling at each other. But I enjoy Berenthal’s character every time he shows up. Just about every ruggedly handsome white male in Hollywood has been asked to play an annoying, sometimes toxic white male asshole at some point but Berenthal brings a kind of humanity to each of these roles. It bums me out that his excellent turn in We Own This City has been memoryholed. There’s a part of me that wonders how the show would’ve gone if Mikey had lived and been centered and not Carmy. But then again, Sidney and Carmy’s relationship is the absolute strength of the show; very much a McCartney/Lennon dynamic. So I dunno. I like White’s performance but I don’t find Carmy very interesting beyond that relationship and I just love seeing Berenthal on screen.
I skipped over most of your review cuz I’m only 6 episodes in, so I just saw the Mikey/Tina exchange, which was incredible. But I tend to agree with the snippets of criticism I’ve heard about much of the season. And it’s kind of wild to me that they finally open the restaurant and instead of pushing full steam ahead with that, we’ve been getting a lot of flashbacks, which I don’t think are necessary even though the actors are still killing it.
The closing of Olivia Colman’s restaurant was a gut punch and I love that from a narrative perspective. The reaper is always hanging over restaurants. It’s a brutal business; which again makes it frustrating that The Bear is still choosing to focus efforts elsewhere in s3.
A side note: there would be no way to give adequate space to Jon Berenthal, Jeremy White and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. The Bear would be a different show and it would suck w/o the star power of Ayo Edibiri if it was just white guys yelling at each other. But I enjoy Berenthal’s character every time he shows up. Just about every ruggedly handsome white male in Hollywood has been asked to play an annoying, sometimes toxic white male asshole at some point but Berenthal brings a kind of humanity to each of these roles. It bums me out that his excellent turn in We Own This City has been memoryholed. There’s a part of me that wonders how the show would’ve gone if Mikey had lived and been centered and not Carmy. But then again, Sidney and Carmy’s relationship is the absolute strength of the show; very much a McCartney/Lennon dynamic. So I dunno. I like White’s performance but I don’t find Carmy very interesting beyond that relationship and I just love seeing Berenthal on screen.