The Bear on FX: aka HEARD! aka YES CHEF! aka Ketamine Gene Wilder cooks for u

Gonna be funny if Carmy shows up super jacked (because Jeremy Allen White played a pro wrestler in a movie in between seasons) and absolutely no explanation is offered.

I think he's been super jacked all along, they just hide it well

They'll reveal that's the real way he got out of the freezer

Just hulked his way out

https://media.vogue.co.uk/photos/6471ec8f07c77016fcc85adb/2:3/w_2560%2Cc_limit/001.jpg

I mean, dude is already pretty jacked in the show

https://media.vogue.co.uk/photos/6471ec8f07c77016fcc85adb/2:3/w_2560%2Cc_limit/001.jpg

I mean, dude is already pretty jacked in the show

mmmmhmmm

Should have made him a baker, got baker guns.

in other JAW news, I saw recently that he's apparently dating Rosalia, love that kind of random celeb pairing

I think he's been super jacked all along, they just hide it well

They absolutely do not hide it well. It was a small thing that annoyed me about the first season. This is not a man who goes to the gym, but look at him. The set dressers could at least have put a set of weights in his spartan apartment.

i guess in my head he was pumping iron during his vintage jeans swapping limbo but yeah otm

i was gonna say, venn diagram between vintage levis in the oven guy and keto gains guy is pretty high

They lay enough clues to indicate that in his Michelin days Carmy was absolutely a fashion guy, so I think it’s not a huge leap to think he’s been pretty invested in how he looks.

kinda like a ketamine Gene Wilder imo

I saw an early Robert Mitchum the other day and it occurred to me that he has a look of Carmy about him.

I saw an early Robert Mitchum FILM, that should be. Not Robert Mitchum strolling along at 5am.

And his hair was ...

i am devoted to Matty Matheson’s youtube channel cooking show

i can’t eat half of what he makes but i find it so therapeutic to watch! he’s so relaxed & good vibes, i heart him

his youtube series from maybe 2-3 years ago where he was interacting with his zoned out staffers more was hilarious

i’ve watched some of those too they’re v funny

i’m obsessed with his jetsons microwave drawer, it’s so wild to me

Billy Zane episode is all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahlGT2dVToI

!!!

have now finished both seasons. it's really good. they absolutely whiff the s2 finale though

Hard disagree that they "absolutely whiffed" it.

the stuff with claire and the fridge is just...no. no

as i say, great show, was pleased to see the richie episode is the highest rated on imdb, nothing wrong with feelgood-of-substance

That was a little weak, but the rest of the ep was so good - JLC was perfect, again. And watching Sydney work through her feelings of sheer stress and confidence was great.

okay fairer to say the s2 finale is really good, even while carmy is in the fridge, then it turns out he was there not as symbolic of letting go of being in control but so they could contrive a moment of absurd melodrama where lengthy character arcs are thrown in the fire. him being in the fridge should have been freeing, and claire should have been there as he emerged, euphoric. end of show.

sex education S2 finale another one that totally duffs the ending in order to ruin a romance. it's like these shows create something amazing but then can't refrain from punishing their protagonists. we live in an age of bummer

Tbf most romance ends in bummer so I’d say it’s an era of realism.

since the beginning of time protagonists don’t get what they want, this is normal

yeah but the lengths gone to and the sudden character inconsistencies wrought in order to deny them feel very in vogue. the dea ex machina is now shiva

like, with carmen in the fridge, i thought the pivotal scene would be with tina talking to him, but they somehow cut that off after a few seconds and sent him into the Tailspin which the entire series has been cathartically pulling him out of, it was like his arc was all for nothing

all that said, there have been a lot of satisfying arcs for other characters of course. although marcus' arc is kind of dropped for the last few episodes and then also given a bummer ending. i guess there are a lot of plates to juggle

what i didn’t buy was claire’s immediate rejection of carmy in that situation, despite what he said

Loved the season but thought those scenes didn't quite work. I get why they did it though: Carmy's redemption is the centre of everything and a saved Carmy = no show.

what i didn’t buy was claire’s immediate rejection of carmy in that situation, despite what he said

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yeah, this was one of those glaring character inconsistencies i was referring to, the most egregious one

like, carmen's portrayal throughout the show is a really good and realistic presentation of someone who's clearly neurodivergent. in this sense i can easily imagine him going a bit loopy while locked in a fridge. what i can't imagine is someone he's in a relationship with simply not forgiving him after magically overhearing him expressing self-doubt

then again i feel like the kind of loopy he went wasn't quite right either, i feel like Real Carmy would have come up with a new dish while sat in there

or maybe it's not even the rejection i didn't buy, but the manner of it, like she'd just realised some deep incontrovertible truth about him that could never be remedied, rather than like "what?? fuck off carmy i'm outta here"

I wonder if there will be a deeper Carmy and Syd thing happening for the next season.

they had their scene already! oh god i hope they don't fuck up s3

maybe the neurodivergents do belong together though. i wouldn't root against them as an item, too-neat as it might be

also also, i spent most of both seasons reading marcus as gay, so the romantic tension between him and sydney caught me off guard a bit

I did, too, especially whenever his dapper roommate dropped by.

Marcus in general, I could never figure out why they were letting him experiment with molecular gastronomy donuts or whatever in the back of the beef shop. Like, they justify why Sydney is there, and of course we know why Carm is there. But Marcus, even in season 1, he seems to be working toward the goal set up in season 2.

The ‘romantic tension’ between Marcus and Syd was responsible for some of the worst scenes in Series 2.

I think it's essentially a badly written show with some good scenes and good actors.

yeah, as i say marcus had a good arc until it vanished around the time S2 decided to 'get serious' and they kept him involved by working some bullshit romantic intrigue up, it was the biggest failing of the series as a whole imo

i also read his 'roommate' as his partner yeah and that they were making no big deal of it and that this was good

idk i bought it. maybe he was gay. maybe he was bi. who knows. surprising things can happen in high pressure situations.

he'd entertained her to dinner in S1 without the merest hint of a frisson. ach maybe

I didn't care for the breakup either. Claire works in an even more stressful environment, so you'd think she'd recognize that Carmy is just spiraling from stress.

Oh right, the roommate in S1 totally read as his partner.