How did they take a show about running a sandwich shop and familial grief and turn it into a show about food autism and awkward millennial flirting?

>>212184264 (OP)
This show is the definition of sniffing your own farts

>>212184842
But I lile to sniff my own farts.

it hurts watching kino turn into slop before your very eyes

>>212184264 (OP)
Season 3 had only one plotline, which was just good enough for one episode - will the magical black girl sign the contract or not. In season 4 this is STILL not resolved, pure insanity.

>>212184264 (OP)
LET ME FIX YOUR SHOW FOR YOU

>Carmy, a gifted chef who attempted suicide after his restaurant owning brother was killed by his drug dealing buddies, comes home at his family's urging to fix the sandwich shop his brother was using as a front for his drug dealing
>Season 1 is the struggle by Carmy to adjust to the unfamiliar world of slop cooking and running a restaurant
>also, the employees all fucking hate him, especially after he starts firing the gold bricks
>Richie leads the mob of haters
>Season 2 is Carmy finally getting a good team of employees together after magic black girl arrives on the scene with some of her competent crew
>Richie straightens out
>but the restaurant is in deep financial trouble
>reluctantly, Carmy asks for a loan from his mobster uncle
>Season 3, the restaurant is now on firm ground and even paying back his uncle's loan
>but his uncle wants to use it as to launder money, too
>Carmy's recovering alcoholic mom, finally confronts him, worried that Carmy might attempt suicide again
>Carmy decides to pursue his foo-foo restaurant idea that's been teased since season 1
>Season 4, the struggles of running a sandwich shop by day and a foo-foo restaurant by night
>Carmy briefly calls it quits to get his head straight, leaving magic black girl in charge
>Season 5, the entire staff sweats the critic's reception
>Carmy returns
>happy ending as the restaurant finally finds its balance

Really, this plot is obvious af and the show writes itself, but the writing staff is fucking incompetent.

>>212184874
You sick fuck

>>212185199
Dafuq is a foo foo restaurant?

It stopped being what it used to be and became what people thought it was.

>>212186166
you sissy

>>212186166
That's where the Foo Fighters fight.

this show has a tryhard comfy atmosphere. retro urban looks and photography, good music. some good themes, like grief and someone verbally abused becoming the abuser. but the writing sucks ass.

- le threatening mafia is actually... our loving uncle. AAAAH HELP ME UNCLE GIVE ME MONEY
- fucking tomato cans
- endless cycle of nothing happening
- everyone is a semi-mary sue, meaning offscreen or sped up training and working hours transform you into michelin star material

don't get me wrong, I still like the show for what it is, I'm watching season 4. But sometimes it's like ozark levels of naive writing.

>>212184264 (OP)
it's a show primarily watched by aging millennial white collar hipsters so that's the audience it caters to

Every episode of season 4, carmy is apologizing to someone.

https://youtu.be/tHU8uGzhegs

As a male waiter should I watch this show?

>>212187024
yea because you know how cringey these guys are IRL but you don’t need to since you already know these characters are 1 dimensional.

i never watched the show as the first episode told me to leave if i liked the snyder cut

>>212184842
CHEF SERVING UP MILLENNIAL FARTS
OH MY GOD COUSIN THE FUCKING FART MACHINE IS BROKEN
WEE WOO WWEEEE WOO

SIGN THE GODDAMN CONTRACT SYDNEY

WHERE IS THE FART MACHINE I GOT FOURTY MILLENNIALS WHO NEED TO SMELL SOME FUCKING FARTS HERE

THE FART MACHINE IS BUSTED

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGH
GET REPAIR MAN OVER HERE AND I'LL DISTRACT THEM BY SUCKING MY OWN DICK!

>>212187024
If your boyfriend puts it on then sure

>>212185199
Basically a good take, I feel very frustrated by writers these days. Problem with Gen Xlennial writers is they are very... maybe insulated is the word? I don't know but they seem to get "the yips" if you will and take advice really personally. So the studio said we need more seasons and they then panicked and decided to circle the drain instead because they keep thinking "I am compromising my values i am sad i say fuck you to studio grr, I am not compromising hey yeah if I just indulge myself in writing a bunch of silly bullshit"

I don't even see 5 seasons to become Michelin Star though.

3) Finale they get Star
4) Carmy mother dies and he nearly loses it all in grief
5) Gets star back and becomes famous, now the story is about being a Celebrity Chef and leaving your friends behind, will he won't he
6) He starts a top 100 Restaurant in the country raising a family in a more chill setting like Indiana somewhere.
7) He finally dies in some tragic way shortly after beating his personal demons THE END

You could easily even extend this show

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>>212184264 (OP)
Isnt S4 going to be about if the restaurant got a good review or not?

>>212186937
>>212184842
>>212187403
my issue is the awful conversational style that everyone talks in.
>so um..yea..so... like.. are we going to...um make a new food... or.... like.... i dont know.... think of something... else?

>uhh yeah.. okay yeah... sounds good, i mean.. well okay.. sure. okay got it

i actually miss proper dialogue

Didn't Richie namecheck this cesspit in season 1?
>incidentally he's the only good character

>>212184264 (OP)
I agree with the OP and I also think that this show is overall B grade - overrated(but not very bad).

The lack of any real resolution is frustrating; for example, in that famous one-take episode, a problem pops up, everyone yells, and then it just ends with no payoff.

Overall, the whole template has become tiresome by now. Everyone’s constantly nervous and yelling over nothing, which gets old fast. On top of that, the cameos feel way too gimmicky and distracting.

>>212185199
hallmark for men on SSRI

>>212184264 (OP)
I watched the first two episodes and I didn't understand why they were yelling at each other. The restaurant appeared to just be sandwich shop so I don't know why they had so many staff and everyone was acting so aggro. I've worked in places like that before and it was hard work but everyone was chill.

Season 1 was good but then it got overhyped and grew a new fanbase so they started appealing to letterboxd whores (women), happens to most shows that get popular

>>212188419
I went to a local sandwich shop last week, steve's sandwiches, the eponymous Steve was an cool old white guy working the cash register and the only other employee i saw was a 20s zoomer lady who made my sandwich. Neither was screaming CHEF but maybe that was because there was a ceasefire at the time.

>>212184264 (OP)
I couldn't even finish the first episode, the camera was whipping around like they got your uncle with cerebral palsy to do the cinematography. Every show that does that gets dropped by me, keep the camera still and stop hiding behind disingenuous methods to mask the fact that your acting and writing suck

We'll never get a kino scene like this ever again on nu-Bear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fjITOkFnnE

>>212184264 (OP)
>autism

>>212186998
cringe

>>212188786
damn thats literally me
the day my brother dies will be a tough day

>>212184842
It appears right before Severance in the dictionary

*zooms in uncomfortably*

>>212188675
>The line was quiet that day. We were just happy for the break. Civvies couldn't understand what that calm meant to us

>>212184264 (OP)
>called The Bear
>it's about a twink

The writers had enough ideas for 1 good season. The execs want as many seasons as it takes until normies realise it's bad. The money in cans should have been a psychosis dream and season 2 should have opened with Carmy being put in the mental ward, then the final episode of season 2 should have been Carmy overdosing on cocaine after failing to keep the restaurant open.

What season are they on now? The first one was awesome, and I didn't make it more than 2 episodes into the 2nd season before bailing.

>>212185199
that's so fucking boring and normie and safe and netflix- I'm glad you're not a showrunner. Tbh with you family I don't think you have enough media literacy to even understand the true depth of The Bear.

>>212187517
Have you heard the way millenials talk?