To be more specific, my main issue wasn't with him buying in and believing in himself or working FOH, it was with him being able to handle expo so well. But like I said, I still really enjoy the show.
all you need to work expo is have your brain to be wired to do that kind of job... they showed him having the aptitude for it in his training week. Jobs perfect for him TBH he likes yelling at people what to do. They also showed him reading some books and whatnot after training so not sure how many weeks there were between than and them opening but they weren't opening like the following week or anything right? could have had plenty of time to learn/hone skills. Fantastic season of TV. lots of types of feels. I fuckin love Marcus's character. Tina had a really great arc this season too. Personally thought Claire reminded me more of Amy Adams, especially when she was dolled up for the friends and family night.
GF kept predicting that Marcus and Sydney would date at some point and I criticized it every time because I think it would be corny as shit and I'm glad they made the entire dinner conversation incredibly awkward. Hopefully they don't push that as a romance thing going forward bc it's dumb
I’m three episodes in. I’m enjoying it so far, Matty Matheson’s Harms Way tshirt was a nice touch. I am ready for the brothers best friend manager guy to stop being such a dickhead. I get that’s his character but I’m assuming it tones down some eventually
I just watched this episode and am now on the finale. I get Bear shouldn’t have yelled, etc but I’m baffled how they’re not accepting any responsibility for their own behavior
Yes, it was just about self realization. He realized that he does have a valuable skill in the hospitality industry and instead of trying to just do whatever he now had focus and purpose and also finally appreciated the core purpose of a restaurant. He wasn't an expert. He was just focused and inspired.
I think he has been around that enough that he understood what it took to do the job and the big difference was his renewed purpose allowed himt o focus on the big picture goal and do the little job that was required in the moment.
In season 1 he stepped up behind the counter and did the same(at a much smaller scale) right? Don’t think it was the online order episode but one before that. That was there to plant his potential. Remember at the stage where he told the expo he was starting to understand her pattern? She gave him a “no you Fucking don’t” look but by the end of the stage they all knew he had potential and told him. Also, he didn’t run expo for 2 turns on a Saturday at a Michelin restaurant. He focused and nailed it for 5 minutes on friends and family night.
Finally started, I’m in love To think I needed the Wu-Tang show (my man blind dog ) to start Hulu and there’s so much on it May 1 day quit being so cheap to skip commercials
The most unrealistic part of the show is the actual economics of the restaurant, how the irs is involved in everything, and the amount of food they were firing in a 20 seat tasting menu restaurant. Oh and how servsafe would work there, unless the sandwich kitchen is nowhere near the main building. I've convinced myself the take out window is going to somehow do like 10k a day and that will make it work somehow. Or maybe they end the show with Cicero bulldozing it. But overall they get so much right and the people feel like people. It's a really well done show, definitely better than season one and the very poor grasp of money laundering.
The "people feeling like people" aspect is so underrated in TV and movies. I have no real experience to judge the realism of restaurant life, but I know it's a culture all its own, which both impacts and is impacted by the people involved. I think The Bear portrays that very well.
I actually just remembered one of my favorite moments of the entire season. When Richie confirms he watches Community by dropping "streets ahead" during I think it was the last episode. Seems to be a lot of Community crossover on this show with Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, and there was even a photo of Danny Pudi in the first season on the wall in The Beef.
I caught that and it made me smile. 2nd to last episode during their huddle before unlocking the door.
Michelin stars are kind of bullshit honestly. One of my favorite aspects of Carmen's character is he doesn't care about them.
100% correct. huge crossover of Bear and Ted Lasso. meh, they're bullshit, but we kind of love them at the same time. I just wish they were more equitable.
For sure. I think they are a good indicator of if a place is good or not but there are a lot of great places that don't have one for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with the food.
Already on season 2 after starting last night, show is addicting af and kinda annoyed I have commercials when I'm binging
Episode 7 when the other chefs are quizzing Richie. He gets a question right and celebrates by doing a hadouken from Street Fighter Two excellent episodes back to back.
6 and 7 back to back might be unprecedented levels of amazing. I can't think of another show that had two episodes of that quality consecutively.
Man, I really really really love this fucking show. Favorite quote from this season: "Micro-basil, FUCK YES!"
Haven’t finished the season yet but all the Richie scenes in E7 were shot in like a 3 block radius from my place. The scene cuts where they show the L moving is my apartment
My only gripe with this show, too many Shameless type ups and downs. Incredible show, incredible cast; not everything has to be so dramatic. Episode 10 was a bit much for me but I also watched this whole fucking season today Shut up gunners, bless up.
I'm kinda sad now as I'm currently watching a lot of great shows but this show was so fucking good I wanted to do nothing but watch it.
I've rewatched seven a handful of times. Six is very good but a bit too hectic for me to rewatch much.
I rarely rewatch tv episodes and yet I just re-binged (is that a word?) the entire series the last couple days.
I heard Matty Matheson say on a podcast that a lot of the people involved in this show were the same crew that did some of Bo Burnham’s projects like Eighth Grade so I liked that they gave Burnham a nod as one of the night’s guests at the restaurant Richie staged at for a week
Thought I was above product placement or advertisements but why did I buy 48 Stellas a few days ago, you got me