Re: The Bear (FX/Hulu)
Posted: Mon July 01, 2024 10:28 pm
grow a sense of humour ya faks
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You’re in for a treat.The Argonaut wrote: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
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.The Argonaut wrote:Honestly don't see what anyone could see in this season.
team argo. the dee dee ep was so gratuitous and boring, for example. the bear is too far up its own ass.The Argonaut wrote: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
No one can argue with that. Or at least, they shouldn't.spike wrote:the bear is too far up its own ass.
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.Ello Sailor wrote:No one can argue with that. Or at least, they shouldn't.spike wrote:the bear is too far up its own ass.
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.
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.spike wrote: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.Ello Sailor wrote:No one can argue with that. Or at least, they shouldn't.spike wrote:the bear is too far up its own ass.
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.
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.The Argonaut wrote: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
Steve Albini wrote: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.
So what is broken here, does all entertainment basically have to be disposable to hit any type of mark?epilogue wrote: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.