The Bear (FX/Hulu)

[The Argonaut]

I am also through the first three. Is it a tad...aimless?

[doug rr]

I am also through the first three. Is it a tad...aimless?

did you watch it with your girlfriend?

[The Argonaut]

I don't have a girlfriend and I watched it alone

[dimejinky99]

Overall this felt like almost nothing and it ends at what feels like is midseason?

It labours the same points over and over and over. Far too much for what it delivered in the end such as it is.
Ten episodes for really only three plot points. To call them storylines would be really exaggerating things


Frustrating stuff as a whole in the end. It doesn’t feel whole at all.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[dimejinky99]

Overall this felt like almost nothing and it ends at what feels like is midseason?

They filmed seasons 3&4 at the same time and you watched all of S3 in less than a day, so maybe cut them a little slack?

Heard they actually didn’t? Filming doesn’t commence until this winter?

Wouldn’t change the story here though.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[dimejinky99]

What would they know? Cast members have said they’re not back filming til end of the year.
Sure some of it was done maybe. They had little else to do going by contents of season 3

[oasisfan35]

Overall this felt like almost nothing and it ends at what feels like is midseason?

I have not watched yet so I am treading lightly in this thread but the time frame from the announcement of the full season drop in June (early February) was made before the actual filming for it commenced. It seems filming did start in late February but that is a bit of pressure in my opinion. Sometimes that pressure yields great returns, other times not so much.

Personally I don't care for full season drops, I like a week to let things simmer in my brain and really only watch an episode at a time anyway but avoiding spoilers isn't always easy.

Plan is to start tomorrow evening and we shall see but I am looking forward to it.

[dimejinky99]

Overall this felt like almost nothing and it ends at what feels like is midseason?

I have not watched yet so I am treading lightly in this thread but the time frame from the announcement of the full season drop in June (early February) was made before the actual filming for it commenced. It seems filming did start in late February but that is a bit of pressure in my opinion. Sometimes that pressure yields great returns, other times not so much.

Personally I don't care for full season drops, I like a week to let things simmer in my brain and really only watch an episode at a time anyway but avoiding spoilers isn't always easy.

Plan is to start tomorrow evening and we shall see but I am looking forward to it.

It still does what it does well when it comes to the human stories but overall just doesn’t feel like it has a plan or know what it’s doing. Much like the bear itself ?

Come back anyways. Looking forward to seeing what you and everyone else thinks.

[VinylGuy]

I loved the new season’s premiere. That’s how you use a Trent and Atticus song.

[dimejinky99]

The first episode is outstanding. On all counts.

[Ello Sailor]

Episode one down. Holy smokes, it's all so heavy. And so beautifully shot. Seeing Olivia Colman again was a "fuck yeah!" moment. She's incredible.

[Ello Sailor]

And yeah, that was Reznor/Atticus at their best, in both execution and application.

[VinylGuy]

I also loved the second episode

[Ello Sailor]

Episode one: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross firing on all cylinders.

Episode two: Whyrrr derrnt ya huurg and kisss merrrr

Eddie Vedder solo sucks so bad it's insane.

[The Argonaut]

It's going for a different vibe, be fair

[Ello Sailor]

My mistake. The ass-sucking vibe -- good call Argo.

[The Argonaut]

How very dare you

[Ello Sailor]

Heard, chef.