The Bear (FX/Hulu)

[tree_]

grow a sense of humour ya faks

[Ello Sailor]

I was enjoying them until they

Spoiler: show

visited Claire at the hospital.

That was fucking stupid.

[The Argonaut]

I was perplexed at why we were spending so much time with them until that exact scene, Ello, and then I began to wonder why anyone puts up with them. They are insufferable and beyond stupid and so poorly written.

Really, the whole season is. It was just incessant, repetitive yelling or the Faks being beyond moronic and annoying, or a quiet very poorly acted scene where a couple characters have entirely un-nuanced conversations about a BIG TOPIC like legacy or life. just a shit season.

Haven't seen the last ep yet

[dad]

I was perplexed at why we were spending so much time with them until that exact scene, Ello, and then I began to wonder why anyone puts up with them. They are insufferable and beyond stupid and so poorly written.

Really, the whole season is. It was just incessant, repetitive yelling or the Faks being beyond moronic and annoying, or a quiet very poorly acted scene where a couple characters have entirely un-nuanced conversations about a BIG TOPIC like legacy or life. just a shit season.

Haven't seen the last ep yet

You’re in for a treat.

[The Argonaut]

Nope, it sucked

[tree_]

I guess the only solution is genocide

[epilogue]

Four episodes in and this show continues to wow.

And while everyone in the show is amazing, and it feels shitty to single out and elevate one over the many, Richie has become one of TV's all time great characters.

We'll see how this finishes up but right now it's making a serious run at Mad Men as my favorite show ever.

[The Argonaut]

Honestly don't see what anyone could see in this season. Its big emotional moments are all hollow and all hinge on montages of big emotional moments from earlier seasons. Nothing in this season was earned, nothing was funny, nothing was even mildly compelling. Big fan of season one, fan of season 2, season 3 was shit, and I can't wait for season 4. Just a waste of time, this whole season

[Monkey_Driven]

Still trying to figure out if Argo liked this or not

[Ello Sailor]

Honestly don't see what anyone could see in this season.

Olivia Colman and Ayo Edebiri mostly. They really are incredible IMO. Also, the cinematography was brilliant at times. And then there's the Reznor/Ross score in episode one.

My shit list for this season is massive though.

[spike]

I was perplexed at why we were spending so much time with them until that exact scene, Ello, and then I began to wonder why anyone puts up with them. They are insufferable and beyond stupid and so poorly written.

Really, the whole season is. It was just incessant, repetitive yelling or the Faks being beyond moronic and annoying, or a quiet very poorly acted scene where a couple characters have entirely un-nuanced conversations about a BIG TOPIC like legacy or life. just a shit season.

Haven't seen the last ep yet

team argo. the dee dee ep was so gratuitous and boring, for example. the bear is too far up its own ass.

[Ello Sailor]

the bear is too far up its own ass.

No one can argue with that. Or at least, they shouldn't.

They had a bunch of real-life chefs talk about their most stressful moments in a roundtable setting instead of, you know, developing established characters or resolving plot points.

Big time (self) fart sniffers, these show runners. But sometimes it's great.

[spike]

the bear is too far up its own ass.

No one can argue with that. Or at least, they shouldn't.

They had a bunch of real-life chefs talk about their most stressful moments in a roundtable setting instead of, you know, developing established characters or resolving plot points.

Big time (self) fart sniffers, these show runners. But sometimes it's great.

oh god that was painful. all the chef cameos are, but at least in past seasons they were kept short. the funeral dinner just never ended, and was compounded by the weird staring contest between carmy and joel mchale.

[dad]

the bear is too far up its own ass.

No one can argue with that. Or at least, they shouldn't.

They had a bunch of real-life chefs talk about their most stressful moments in a roundtable setting instead of, you know, developing established characters or resolving plot points.

Big time (self) fart sniffers, these show runners. But sometimes it's great.

oh god that was painful. all the chef cameos are, but at least in past seasons they were kept short. the funeral dinner just never ended, and was compounded by the weird staring contest between carmy and joel mchale.

yeah, that was weird. we don't need carmy to prove to mchale that he'd made it. that was off-putting. go to therapy, carmy.

[dimejinky99]

It’s been interesting watching the kinda switch.
In the beginning season one you’re rooting for Carmy and want him to win and yet you can’t stand Richie he’s gods own asshole and holding Carmy and his vision back.

Now season three it’s a total turnaround and can’t stand Carmy he’s a self obsessed twerp who needs therapy and Richie’s the best guy in the show who’s learned and listened and grown up and with clarity.

And they’re at each others throats because of that. Carmys regressed big time and Richie has progressed leaps and bounds. I’m not sure how aware they each are of that. Too busy hating each other at the moment.

Didn’t call each other cousin once in the entire season it seems.

[epilogue]

Honestly don't see what anyone could see in this season. Its big emotional moments are all hollow and all hinge on montages of big emotional moments from earlier seasons. Nothing in this season was earned, nothing was funny, nothing was even mildly compelling. Big fan of season one, fan of season 2, season 3 was shit, and I can't wait for season 4. Just a waste of time, this whole season

If you didn't get hit by that scene of Richie and his daughter in episode four or by the montage under Save it For Later in episode two or by Marcus's speech at his mother's funeral or by the fact that episode four is called 'Violet' then I'm not sure what you ever liked about this show. Episode three was just as tense and riveting and vital as S1E7 and Fishes.

TV is all about the expected. People watch TV to see something familiar and time and time again this show does the exact opposite. It drills down at the moment it's expected to expand out. It's funny when it should be devastating. It makes you flinch when it's expected to make you swoon. I haven't finished it yet, obviously, but through four episodes I don't see what any fan of this show would be disappointed by.

[The Argonaut]

Richie was occasionally interesting, and I liked the Eddie Vedder montage

[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.

[epilogue]

Listening to The Watch (from last week) talking about the first episode and they have a good point. There was probably no way this was going to maintain the public love in S3. TV audiences -- and critics, especially -- just don't work that way. There was no way this wasn't gonna have a backlash.

But the show is still top notch for me. Really looking forward to the remaining episodes.

[oasisfan35]

Listening to The Watch (from last week) talking about the first episode and they have a good point. There was probably no way this was going to maintain the public love in S3. TV audiences -- and critics, especially -- just don't work that way. There was no way this wasn't gonna have a backlash.

So what is broken here, does all entertainment basically have to be disposable to hit any type of mark?