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God, I enjoyed the heck out of 'The Bear', the lead is kinda amazing looking too, they should make a scorching biopic about the lives of Minimalist composers just to get him to be a young Philip Glass.

Hoping for a second season but it seems pretty tied up.

Think I read somewhere that it was renewed. Some trepidation about that given how it ended but I guess if a second season is a letdown the first will still stand on its own nicely.

I can see one S2 plotline through my own bar POV -- presumably the new place will serve alcohol. One hotshot drink scientist with a million ideas for their cocktail program, "needing" full kitchen access to create dozens of syrups and Campari powder and dehydrated citrus wheels and such, chafing when they're not addressed as "chef"... a liquor budget that matches the kitchen budget in the hands of one newcomer...conflict! And maybe Richie spending a lot of time drinking for free instead of getting work done...

I spent so much time trying to figure out where I had seen Cicero before (without using IMDb) then I realised it was Flatliners :)

My mate was calling it 'How To Make It In Chicago', which I thought was unfair, but I do gravitate more toward shows where ppl are fucked up but not *too* fucked up, and things don't just endlessly spiral from bad to worse.

Oliver Platt has been in a ton of things

Chicago montage that opened the final episode followed by single take of Carmy at the AA meeting was an incredible 1-2 punch. The rest of the episode didn't live up but that was a lofty high to try and reach

XP - I looked at his page and yeah tons, but not much that I've seen, apart from The West Wing and Frost/Nixon

No idea how Facebook works on here, but if anyone not Chicago wants a taste of local, or just to compare/contrast, here's something my favorite burger/dog stand just posted in advance of closing forever:

https://fb.watch/fRswERL05v/

WMC, i hope you get on the writing team here

I'd love that, I need something to do instead of having to work for a living.

Streaming service homescreens:
Apple: Welcome back, sir
Hulu: Welcome back, oh, yes, I remember you, just let me comb my hair
Netflix: Hello, can we interest you in today's special HERE EAT IT
Paramount: WTF who are you, here's a blurry SEAL Team ad, just take what you want & go

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) October 1, 2022

HBO Max: Care to watch the final 15 seconds of the credits of that thing you watched eight months ago?

PlutoTV: WHAT WE CANT HEAR YOU OVER WALKER TEXAS RANGER JUST SIT WHEREVER SOMEONE WILL CALL YOU OVER

Bad Sisters feels like it would have been sharper at 30 minutes than 50+.

Was about to say. It feels like watching the same episode over and over again. JP is an asshole, needlessly sadistic and cruel to someone, so that someone wants JP dead. The sisters try and fail. Meanwhile, in the present day, the two brothers agonize over the (suspicious) death of JP. Repeat. I like all the actors, but the only development week by week is JP, who starts out the show dead and then proceeds to show over and over again, in different ways, why he's worthy of death. So ... who cares who kills him, or even if he *is* killed? It feels weirdly masochistic. I wouldn't put it past the show to reveal at the end that it's some paperboy we've never met that did him in, because at this point, why not?

For anyone in the UK, The Bear is now available on Disney+

That sounds like a ~recipe~ for confusion!

better than on Cinemax Late Night

I wouldn't put it past the show to reveal at the end that it's some paperboy

My assumption is that it's all a red herring and his death will be completely natural.

Bad Sisters speculation after three episodes:
They’ll point you toward the massage therapist being the killer and her sisters think they’re covering for her but it turns out it was an accident - he was a teetotaler because he had a drinking problem in the past, got drunk because of something and died.

Lmao no

it’s quite clearly Grace.

I think this week is the penultimate episode so will wait and see if this is true, if it does prove to be true I’ll share my workings. If not, idc unless it’s someone really stupid.

Literally everyone that meets this twat wants him dead - the sisters/neighbor/co-worker/daughter/boyfriend - which is why I figure it'll be someone rando. Also, no one is going to end up in jail, and we already know JP is dead, which is why I remain curious how it will end. Not "whodunnitt? but how do you conclude something so weirdly dramatically inert?

seems pretty full of drama to me - how will dreamboat reconcile his feelings for becca with his incentive to help his brother (and stay out of jail) being the main thing, but also what the hell is up w that freezer, how does JP actually end up carking it, what happened in the interim to make sharon horgan's gay boat buddy willing to throw her under the bus, who gets the promotion, and we certainly haven't seen the end of sweet old falsely accused roger. but yes, we already know jp is dead. that is true.

(NB i haven't seen the most recent episode)

It seems very strange to complain about a murder mystery having the murder happen at the beginning and the backstory after, but that’s ilx TV threads for you.

Other things I have enjoyed about this show:

- the scenery
- the sisters 🥹🥹🥹
- some genuine laughs (when they are watching JP get pulled out of the water I was dying)
- Bibi in general
- no but seriously the sisterhood is like the high point of this show for me, the squabbling, the bonding, the everything, I love it
- Becka’s orange bra
- ep 8 spoilers JP GETTING DECKED
- baby Gleeson & his hot brother and their own fucked up sibling relationship

Things I have not enjoyed in this show:
- the idea that a millennial man from Dublin would need a breakfast roll explained to him, what the fuck
- excess animal death

tl;dr I cannot wait to see this guy die especially as it was likely humiliating in some fashion, I don’t think I’ve wanted to see a character get offed so much since Juan in The Borgias.

I've enjoyed a lot about this show. It's very enjoyable. But I also think they've spent way too much time underscoring that this guy (who yeah, starts out the show dead, so good riddance) is the biggest asshole of all time, and even eight episodes in they still keep piling on fresh evidence of his exceptional cruelty. Seems ... unnecessary. I mean, sure, there's drama happening, sister dynamics, romance, whatever. But in terms of character development, I don't feel like we're learning much more about the sisters, or need to; they're pretty fleshed out, imo, and have been from the start, which is what makes watching them fun. But we keep learning more about JP, even though we (I) really don't need to, and I find that less fun.

if they tried introducing some sympathetic angle to JP it would be the absolute fucking worst

I agree! Hence Milo suggesting maybe it would be sharper at 30 minutes than 50+. Because all you would have to do is cut out even more of JP being a gratuitous asshole and you'd lose those 20 minutes.

Does Selena Gomez’s acting improve as you get deeper into Only Murders In The Building?

I think she's good in the role (and as a foil / "straight man" for the two seasoned goofballs, which I assume isn't easy). I can see how her performance may not be to every taste, but I do recommend at least getting into the rhythm of it.

My S1 opinion:

Excellent cast, a lot of actors I love that I don't see much anymore. except for Selena Gomez, who I've never seen act before and don't hope to again

And S2:

I did think Selena Gomez improved her delivery a lot this season, or maybe I finally got used to it

I don't hate Amy Shumer as much as a lot of ppl but boy her cameo in s2 of Only Murders was embarassing, praying she won't show up too often.

Shumer has kept me away from S2. She has that oily je ne sais quoi that folks like Fred Armisen and Ryan Reynolds also have. Keeps me far away from anything they show up in.

Schumer only shows up in the one episode of Only Murders.

I think she has a show on Hulu so it was a shitty little advertisement really

That show is surprisingly good btw!

Better off Beth? Beth before Dishonor? Life before Beth? something like that.

Life & Beth

nailed it!

Bataan Beth March

life and beth is really good, i watched that in one go.

She has that oily je ne sais quoi that folks like Fred Armisen and Ryan Reynolds also have.

Some thoughts under spoiler cut on latest episode of Women Who Have Too Much Screentime (Bad Sisters)

Obviously great to know that JP is finally dead, naturally they’re saving his actual death scene for the finale. I am doubling down on my Grace did it theory for being both plausible and thematically satisfying.

Was thinking a lot about Grace in this episode. Was thinking about the comment earlier in the season about how she was disappearing before the sisters’ eyes and how full of life and happy she is with her sisters, and how shrunken she is with JP. When he was trying to manipulate her into not seeing her sisters on her birthday, it was chilling, it’s a total classic abuser move but we’ve had time to see how the sisters’ relationship is so important to them all and it felt like watching him tighten the noose even more. The boiling frog nature of abuse is very like this, he undoubtedly didn’t start out like this and by the time Grace realised what he was all about, it was too late (possibly they had Blanaid then and she felt she couldn’t leave?)

So I really hope she killed him! I was thinking as well about how JP lied to her about Roger’s visit and she didn’t even question it - and you know that any one of her sisters would have seen what was up for themselves. I thought she might have spoken to Roger somehow and connected the dots, it’s possible she already did and was deep in denial until JP’s sneering forced her out of it? I really feel for Roger, sincerely hope he and Grace end up together, he would treat Grace as she deserves to be treated!

I’ve been away for the weekend and am very much looking forward to seeing the latest ep of Bad Sisters when I get home but now I am looking forward even more to unhiding gyac’s hidden text.

Tim I didn’t know you were watching! Look forward to hearing your thoughts!

finally got around to watching Under the Banner of Heaven which was really well acted and really irritatingly directed.