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Loved Seasons 1 and 2 of The Bear, and recently have been watching Season 3. It's such a slog. We can only get through one episode at a time.
Season 2 was so nice. It was so eventful, so full of conflict. It really seems like the writers ran out of ideas about what to do next, so they just... stopped writing altogether. The little amount of dialogue there is is weird, forced, repetitive, and unrealistic. Everything else is just filler. Close-ups of food, close-ups of mundanity. EVERY episode is like this.
I really loved when, in Breaking Bad, something insane and heavy would happen, and then afterwards there would be like a 3-4 minute scene of close-ups of a character doing something that's not immediately clear. It was a great way to decompress, ponder over the previous scene, and also give the viewer a chance to work out what the character is doing now: what the point of the scene is, what will happen next, etc.
The Bear, by contrast, just seems to use close-up compilations overlayed with shitty music haphazardly. And the music is REALLY shitty. I know the following song was not made specifically for this episode, but it really sounds like an AI wrote it:
A reviewer said an episode from S3 was their favorite episode in the whole series, and ranked it up there with two other of my favorite episodes. It turned out to be a full 40 minutes of close-ups of plated food and train commutes. Such fucking hacky TV "writing". But S3 still has an 89% on RT (50% for audience). I swear reviewers who enjoy these sorts of episodes need to come out and just say, "Here's the truth: I hate TV. I much prefer looking at pretty pictures and being alone with my thoughts."
tl;dr the bear S3 sucks and reviewers are hacks, rant over
Season 2 was so nice. It was so eventful, so full of conflict. It really seems like the writers ran out of ideas about what to do next, so they just... stopped writing altogether. The little amount of dialogue there is is weird, forced, repetitive, and unrealistic. Everything else is just filler. Close-ups of food, close-ups of mundanity. EVERY episode is like this.
I really loved when, in Breaking Bad, something insane and heavy would happen, and then afterwards there would be like a 3-4 minute scene of close-ups of a character doing something that's not immediately clear. It was a great way to decompress, ponder over the previous scene, and also give the viewer a chance to work out what the character is doing now: what the point of the scene is, what will happen next, etc.
The Bear, by contrast, just seems to use close-up compilations overlayed with shitty music haphazardly. And the music is REALLY shitty. I know the following song was not made specifically for this episode, but it really sounds like an AI wrote it:
I was looking forward to S3 after how good S2 was, and now I don't even care to watch S4. I'm done with the show.
A reviewer said an episode from S3 was their favorite episode in the whole series, and ranked it up there with two other of my favorite episodes. It turned out to be a full 40 minutes of close-ups of plated food and train commutes. Such fucking hacky TV "writing". But S3 still has an 89% on RT (50% for audience). I swear reviewers who enjoy these sorts of episodes need to come out and just say, "Here's the truth: I hate TV. I much prefer looking at pretty pictures and being alone with my thoughts."
tl;dr the bear S3 sucks and reviewers are hacks, rant over
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