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wow everyone otm re The Bear on
Hulu

so good!! it’s like watching a novel, really well written & acted. also shows about cooking/chefing arent always that much, but this really has a heart to it

We’re watching “The Great” on Hulu (which I guess isn’t new, I hadn’t heard of it) – it’s kind of goofy, but fun and watchable.

"The Bear" is excellent indeed! 3 eps in.

The Bear feels a lot like Ted Lasso, and has some of the same problems with believeability. What kind of sandwich shop has like 5 people in the kitchen, all day? Every time I've gone to a shop like this, it's been like 2-3 people running the joint. No wonder they are having money problems. What kind of Chicago Beef sandwich shop would try to "elevate" what they are doing? Who is looking for an elevated Chicago Beef? What Chicago Beef shop serves mashed potatoes?

fuck, why even have television at all?

Who is looking for an elevated Chicago Beef?

I’d make this my ILX handle, but I have no business doing so

Also it's like Ted Lasso in that there's no laughs.

Seconding unperson's recommendation of The Old Man. Jeff Bridges is ok, a little unbelievably old to have won the fight at the end of E1, but Amy Brenneman and John Lithgow are especially good.

The script is definitely trying to make me think that Waters is Hamzad's son, raised to carry out Dad's Vengeance, but we'll see.

Why would anyone compare "The Bear" to "Ted Lasso"? It's nothing like "Obi-Wan," either (I assume).

Dude comes into ragtag failing franchise and turns it around with structure and positivity.

Also, both shows that everyone loves but for some reason leave me and my wife scratching our heads.

re Ted Lasso, it's the sadness underneath the positivity that makes the show meaningful to me

I didn't like the second season as much as the first

The Bear is dark as fuck … they are really not the same kind of show at all!

it’s ok if you dont like the show but that is a pretty flawed thesis you got there

No. I must convince you all to hate this show! :)

lol <3

lol

Yeah, I suspect if you're watching "The Bear" as a comedy, you may be doing it wrong.

"Where are the laffs !?!"

All the reviews called it a comedy, a dark comedy, a dramatic comedy, etc. Where ARE the laffs?!

didn't like the second season as much as the first

Too much darkness under the positivity!

Not really too much darkness, exactly, but I definitely did not enjoy the angle with Nate

I definitely dont think The Bear is a comedy, and it shouldn’t be talked about that way

it’s definitely more of a drama with funny moments, but even the “funny” moments are pretty dark

like the funniest moment is dark as hell: dosing a bunch of kids with a ton of fkn xanax ffs!

I’m only 4 or 5 eps in and that cousin guy is way way too much. There’s no way anyone can tolerate a guy that relentlessly shitty and annoying and aggressive in reality...

There’s no way anyone can tolerate a guy that relentlessly shitty and annoying and aggressive in reality...

I've never worked in a restaurant, but I've worked with a half dozen guys like that. (One of the reasons I never made it through Uncut Gems was that Sandler's character gave me previous-employer-inspired PTSD.)

i like that character even though he is def over the top. contrast is important. besides, even outside of the kitchen or chicago ffs - i can think of at least 5 guys from my highschool who are still exactly that dude

someone on twitter said ep 7 of the Bear makes uncut gems look like a yoga meditation lol

It sounded like I would love this show until your comment there, vg, haha. Uncut Gems was almost too much stress for me

check it out, it’s worth it!

There’s no way anyone can tolerate a guy that relentlessly shitty and annoying and aggressive in reality

He reminded me of Melissa McCarthy in the Heat, although his banter was comparatively weak

Had to bail on the Bear, too stressful and humorless. Of course the main character is a selvedge denim guy though.

What kind of Chicago Beef sandwich shop would try to "elevate" what they are doing? Who is looking for an elevated Chicago Beef?

I'm sure you noticed that Sydney had Smoque on her resume between Avec and Alinea in the first episode.

Eh, Smoque isn't "elevated," it's just great Texas-style bbq in Chicago.

I think of the shop in this show as similar (though I'm only three episodes in). And I really like that there isn't a real-life equivalent of the place in the show, rather than it being a generic upscale restaurant or stand-in for Au Cheval or Hot Dougs.

Yeah, that's what I've told people that have complained how it makes River North (where it was apparently filmed) seem gritty. It's make-believe, you know?

I just can't tell what kind of restaurant this is supposed to be. A sandwich counter? A sit-down place? Do they even have tables? I'm like 5 episodes in and I still can't picture what the front of the house looks like.

There are tables in the side addition, the part without the glass front.

Didn't even realize ep. 7 was a single shot until looking up the credits afterwards.

A guy who was briefly a Chicago ILXor in the mid-2000s plays the guy who get the sample short-rib dish.

Alia Shawkat is really good in The Old Man

Jesus, season 3 of The Boys is some dark, depraved shit. Not sure anyone would have predicted one of the most searing satires of the state of things would be a superhero show.

The worst season so far but still fun to watch

I'm only two episodes in.

Incidentally, it's maybe a sign of the streaming times but also just kind of wacky that Giancarlo Esposito is simultaneously playing a villain on not one, not two, but *three* high-profile shows on three different networks.

A couple years ago, Anna Kendrick was playing the ingenue/heroine on three different series on three different streamers, plus two other features on two other streamers, all roughly at the same time.

Huh, which ones? I just looked at her wiki and couldn't figure out which three series (and didn't recognize any of them, lol).

Was watching Miami Vice last week and he popped up on there too. He's everywhere :) xps

XP Kendrick had Love Life on HBO MAX, Dummy (the Dan Harmon sex doll thing) on Quibi, and the animated Human Discoveries on Facebook Watch, while the movies were Noelle Claus on Disney+ and Stowaway on Netflix (the outlier in the bunch, as it came out last year with everything else being from late '19 into '20).

...and they shouldn't count, but she also was doing ads for Hilton and Frito Lay that were all over YouTube and ad-supported streamers.

Plus Trolls World Tour! (which is currently getting a lot of play again in our house)

Yeah, I don't count those other shows because one is a voice role and the other was some 10-minute Quibi show which the wiki says was a feature broken up into bits. Still, a whole lotta Anna! But Esposito is in three A-level appointment shows at once, plus a big video game, iirc.

Catching up with The Bear. Loved it - acting, writing, direction, vibes. Not a comedy but had its laughs esp the zonked out kids at the party. Happy to see it got picked up for a second season.

some 10-minute Quibi show

are you telling us it wasn’t a lobi