The Bear (FX/Hulu)

[Mecca]

Is ice chips to the bear as fly is to breaking bad?

[VinylGuy]

Saw the first five eps and im loving this season really. I did hate John Cena at ep 5. Fuck you Cena. You are just not funny.

[doug rr]

Cena has jumped the shark..

[Simple Torture]

Pete is so, so fucking stupid.

[daft twat]

team Joe..ice chips was great

Just saw it and agree.

8 eps down and I don’t get the hate. I have enjoyed every episode. Ice Chips really made me see Sugar for the first time. She’s so fucking great.

If I had one minor gripe, it’s the Faks. This show doesn’t need Rosencrantz and Gildenstern doing haunting bits in every episode.

I don’t think this is far and away the best show on tv, but I like it a lot.

[Ensign9]

I don’t think this is far and away the best show on tv, but I like it a lot.

What is?

[RockPusher]

Love this show- Season 3 is my favorite. Napkins and Ice Chips all day, Jeff!

[dimejinky99]

Yes Jeff!

[Ello Sailor]

Not a big fan of Ice Chips, sorry fellas. 1-3 and 6 (Napkins) were top tier. The rest was ehhh.

[dimejinky99]

Great news!

John Cena has quit wrestling! so hopefully he'll be a full time character in here!

[E.H. Ruddock]

lol they always go back to wrestling

[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]

This season is meandering a bit.

To be expected given the expansion from 3 to 4 seasons, unfortunately.

Still, this shit is better than meandering than most shows are when tight and at their most intentional.

[oasisfan35]

team Joe..ice chips was great

Just saw it and agree.

8 eps down and I don’t get the hate. I have enjoyed every episode. Ice Chips really made me see Sugar for the first time. She’s so fucking great.

If I had one minor gripe, it’s the Faks. This show doesn’t need Rosencrantz and Gildenstern doing haunting bits in every episode.

I don’t think this is far and away the best show on tv, but I like it a lot.

I am with you there, it actually bothered the shit out of me to end Ice Chips

But the episode hit hard, this could be me but

Spoiler: show

Sugar constantly asking if JLC called Pete, leaving to suppose that she did not and could totally be on brand, really escalated the dynamic of the episode for me.

I adore tight-courter episodes with fewer actors, some of the best entertainment can come via constraints.

edit: halfway through Apologies and this season is hitting every beat, no pomp and circumstance found frittered around previously; this is solid entertainment.

[daft twat]

In 2010 my wife and I went to Chicago for a weekend to see Louis CK and Ricky Gervais at the Chicago Theater on back to back nights. That was mainly for me. As a thank you to my wife, I booked us a table at Alinea despite the insane $500 price tag. The chef Grant Achatz was in the beginning of the season 3 finale as Carmie was looking at pictures. Anyway….

I can’t remember how many courses there were. A lot. They were all wild. For dessert, Chef Achatz actually came to the table and made it right in front of us on the vinyl table cloth like a Jackson Pollock painting. It was fucking ridiculous. All of it was amazing and none of it was the best anything I ever had.

This show perfectly emulates the “fine dining” experience. We consume most tv and most food in a mindless way. These restaurants and this show force you to stare at each dish/moment and appreciate the art and also the ridiculousness of it all.

No one has the best meals of their lives at these places. Those meals are born of real hunger or a good buzz after a concert or a long vacation day, and they’re usually comfort food. Like most of the tv most of us watch.

The Bear is great. It’s Binaural. I’m so glad we have both. But I like Ten and Curb Your Enthusiasm more.

Ps. Finished the season
1) Will Poulter looked like a giant next to JAW. I looked it up. 6’2” vs 5’7”
2) Weird ending
3) Could Olivia Coleman be Professor McGonnegal in the HBO Harry Potter series? She so great, and I can’t see anyone else following Maggie Smith.

[spike]

Wow you got a deal at Alinea. I think we paid north of $600 each just a few years later.

[Mecca]

In 2010 my wife and I went to Chicago for a weekend to see Louis CK and Ricky Gervais at the Chicago Theater on back to back nights. That was mainly for me. As a thank you to my wife, I booked us a table at Alinea despite the insane $500 price tag. The chef Grant Achatz was in the beginning of the season 3 finale as Carmie was looking at pictures. Anyway….

I can’t remember how many courses there were. A lot. They were all wild. For dessert, Chef Achatz actually came to the table and made it right in front of us on the vinyl table cloth like a Jackson Pollock painting. It was fucking ridiculous. All of it was amazing and none of it was the best anything I ever had.

This show perfectly emulates the “fine dining” experience. We consume most tv and most food in a mindless way. These restaurants and this show force you to stare at each dish/moment and appreciate the art and also the ridiculousness of it all.

No one has the best meals of their lives at these places. Those meals are born of real hunger or a good buzz after a concert or a long vacation day, and they’re usually comfort food. Like most of the tv most of us watch.

The Bear is great. It’s Binaural. I’m so glad we have both. But I like Ten and Curb Your Enthusiasm more.

Ps. Finished the season
1) Will Poulter looked like a giant next to JAW. I looked it up. 6’2” vs 5’7”
2) Weird ending
3) Could Olivia Coleman be Professor McGonnegal in the HBO Harry Potter series? She so great, and I can’t see anyone else following Maggie Smith.

I appreciate you putting the words to the idea I had in my head about this show

[dimejinky99]

In 2010 my wife and I went to Chicago for a weekend to see Louis CK and Ricky Gervais at the Chicago Theater on back to back nights. That was mainly for me. As a thank you to my wife, I booked us a table at Alinea despite the insane $500 price tag. The chef Grant Achatz was in the beginning of the season 3 finale as Carmie was looking at pictures. Anyway….

I can’t remember how many courses there were. A lot. They were all wild. For dessert, Chef Achatz actually came to the table and made it right in front of us on the vinyl table cloth like a Jackson Pollock painting. It was fucking ridiculous. All of it was amazing and none of it was the best anything I ever had.

This show perfectly emulates the “fine dining” experience. We consume most tv and most food in a mindless way. These restaurants and this show force you to stare at each dish/moment and appreciate the art and also the ridiculousness of it all.

No one has the best meals of their lives at these places. Those meals are born of real hunger or a good buzz after a concert or a long vacation day, and they’re usually comfort food. Like most of the tv most of us watch.

The Bear is great. It’s Binaural. I’m so glad we have both. But I like Ten and Curb Your Enthusiasm more.

Ps. Finished the season
1) Will Poulter looked like a giant next to JAW. I looked it up. 6’2” vs 5’7”
2) Weird ending
3) Could Olivia Coleman be Professor McGonnegal in the HBO Harry Potter series? She so great, and I can’t see anyone else following Maggie Smith.

great post.

[epilogue]

What a stellar finale.

This show is a revelation and pure joy.

Yeah, sorry, team, this whole season really worked for me.

[The Argonaut]

I feel like you wouldn't have liked it if I hadn't hated it so vocally. You're just oppositional