Anonymous
07/15/2025 23:12
Subject: The amazingness of The Bear
I have come to hate this show primarily because the family trauma with Carmy's family is too much for me and stresses me out to much. All the stuff with Carmy and his mom was close to unwatchable for me, it hits home in very uncomfortable ways and I hate it.
People (including my spouse) keep complaining about being very over Carmy's broodiness and issues this season and I agree but also all his standing around looking sad and lost feels 100% true to life for someone with his family and upbringing and honestly the most unrealistic thing to me is that he was ever functional enough to become this well respected and established chef.
Everyone on the show is broken in some way but Carmy is next level because of the chaos and abuse in his childhood and that's why he's so freaking annoying and frustrating.
This would be better as a movie, it's too painful as a TV show that just keeps going and going.
People (including my spouse) keep complaining about being very over Carmy's broodiness and issues this season and I agree but also all his standing around looking sad and lost feels 100% true to life for someone with his family and upbringing and honestly the most unrealistic thing to me is that he was ever functional enough to become this well respected and established chef.
Everyone on the show is broken in some way but Carmy is next level because of the chaos and abuse in his childhood and that's why he's so freaking annoying and frustrating.
This would be better as a movie, it's too painful as a TV show that just keeps going and going.
Anonymous
07/14/2025 00:10
Subject: The amazingness of The Bear
Anonymous wrote:I. Loved the first season. This pne was not very good. It still has the bones of a good show but it’s like they took 4 episodes of material and stretched it out into 10 episodes by making every emotional scene way too long and dragged out. I love the Ritchie character and his ex wife but I am just so over Carm’s endless brooding and Sydney as well. I feel like Ritchie is the only one who has had any character growth over 4 seasons. Well also Marcus and the other side characters — Tina and the wine guy. I did like the running joke about not being able to tell the wine heads apart.
I thought the sub plot with the frenemy was not well done.
And I hated the end. I don’t want to put a spoiler in but I thought it was dumb and made no sense.
I really wish the show dug in more to the challenges with running a restaurant. I feel like they just gloss over it and take it as a given that it’s hard. But what’s interesting for us as non restaurant owners is to see why it’s hard and what goes into making a restaurant succeeed or fail. It’s like the writers didn’t want to bother to do that research and it’s easier to just do endless close up shots of Carmen sulking. We get it — he’s a tortured genius.
I still love this show but you are so right about some of these issues. The showrunner only wanted to do three seasons and FX/Hulu wanted a fourth, so that’s why 3 and 4 have so little storyline. I love how Claire is a whole ass doctor, and an ER doctor at that, and Carmy is somehow more stressed, tortured and overworked - it makes me wonder why anyone would run a restaurant, particularly a super fancy food restaurant like this, which I think is part of the point of the show. The creator’s sister runs restaurants as does the guy who plays Fak, and their input is a big part of it.
Interested to see how the fifth season goes taking into account the above plus what happened in the finale, and also considering how famous and busy the main cast has become.
Anonymous
07/13/2025 21:29
Subject: The amazingness of The Bear
I. Loved the first season. This pne was not very good. It still has the bones of a good show but it’s like they took 4 episodes of material and stretched it out into 10 episodes by making every emotional scene way too long and dragged out. I love the Ritchie character and his ex wife but I am just so over Carm’s endless brooding and Sydney as well. I feel like Ritchie is the only one who has had any character growth over 4 seasons. Well also Marcus and the other side characters — Tina and the wine guy. I did like the running joke about not being able to tell the wine heads apart.
I thought the sub plot with the frenemy was not well done.
And I hated the end. I don’t want to put a spoiler in but I thought it was dumb and made no sense.
I really wish the show dug in more to the challenges with running a restaurant. I feel like they just gloss over it and take it as a given that it’s hard. But what’s interesting for us as non restaurant owners is to see why it’s hard and what goes into making a restaurant succeeed or fail. It’s like the writers didn’t want to bother to do that research and it’s easier to just do endless close up shots of Carmen sulking. We get it — he’s a tortured genius.
I thought the sub plot with the frenemy was not well done.
And I hated the end. I don’t want to put a spoiler in but I thought it was dumb and made no sense.
I really wish the show dug in more to the challenges with running a restaurant. I feel like they just gloss over it and take it as a given that it’s hard. But what’s interesting for us as non restaurant owners is to see why it’s hard and what goes into making a restaurant succeeed or fail. It’s like the writers didn’t want to bother to do that research and it’s easier to just do endless close up shots of Carmen sulking. We get it — he’s a tortured genius.
Anonymous
07/13/2025 21:09
Subject: The amazingness of The Bear
This season was a slog. I don't know if I watched a single episode without pressing pause and taking a break.
I REALLY like these characters. And I think there are many very challenging scenes that the actors deliver in.
But a lot of the time I felt bored.
I REALLY like these characters. And I think there are many very challenging scenes that the actors deliver in.
But a lot of the time I felt bored.
Anonymous
07/13/2025 20:38
Subject: The amazingness of The Bear
I wanted to love it but I realize I’m so tired of an entire series based on super close up camera shots and misery. The show needed a lot more of the Faks brothers. Carmy playing every scene by staring around in different directions got old. And Syd just constantly stuttering, I kept thinking they asked her to improvise and sucks at it.
The series really needed to be done after this season.
The series really needed to be done after this season.
Anonymous
07/11/2025 12:36
Subject: The amazingness of The Bear
Anonymous wrote:I usually give shows that I have really enjoyed some latitude, but this season was dreadfully boring. How many times can a bunch of people say "What are we going to do?!"
I loved it don't know why. I was so confused about so many things.
Anonymous
07/09/2025 13:29
Subject: The amazingness of The Bear
I usually give shows that I have really enjoyed some latitude, but this season was dreadfully boring. How many times can a bunch of people say "What are we going to do?!"
Anonymous
07/04/2025 07:43
Subject: The amazingness of The Bear
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think this show sucks. I can't stand the tight shots of the actors or the grayish blue color of everything.
The first season was great and it went down hill. This season is slow and painful.
+1. More like The Bore.
Anonymous
07/03/2025 08:01
Subject: The amazingness of The Bear
Anonymous wrote:Where is this streaming
Hulu
Anonymous
07/03/2025 06:06
Subject: The amazingness of The Bear
Where is this streaming
Anonymous
07/03/2025 00:52
Subject: The amazingness of The Bear
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if this was mentioned yet, but having just watched the doc about Chef Charlie Trotter, it seems that this show is based off of him.
Where is the documentary - also on Hulu?
Netflix
Love Charlie, the rise and fall of chef Charlie Trotter
Thanks! We are about halfway through and enjoying it much more than last season, and it’s getting better as it goes along (I was worried after the first episode that it would be more of the same.)
+1
The show instantly went from snoozy (although better than last season) to amazing when Will Poulter returned. He’s the lightest character and man is he smokin hot.
Anonymous
07/02/2025 12:54
Subject: Re:The amazingness of The Bear
Renewed for another season https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/the-bear-season-5-renewed-1235377049/