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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

Thirding The Bear -- I'd heard that there was a lot of high-tension screaming going in but actually watching hasn't been a stressful experience, I think because it doesn't beat its characters down relentlessly and doles out emotional growth sparingly but progressively. Good casting with Carmy, since the actor looks like he's on the verge of a breakdown 24/7.

It does kind of make me feel inadequate as far as my knife skills are concerned, though.

always here for surprise Jon Bernthal

loved that so much <3

It does kind of make me feel inadequate as far as my knife skills are concerned, though.

Don't. ime, good chefs run the gamut from being completely unable to function behind the line (but have a great palate and make menus successfully) to having fine, not insane, knife skills/terrific people skills. it's a t.v show!

am watching this currently and am liking, but it's kinda triggery.

I never finished Hanna the movie but the first season of Hanna the show was pretty good, it balanced John Wick action with coming of age better than I expected. Not sure if the can maintain for two more seasons or if it will just get repetitive.

The worst season so far but still fun to watch

I'm four episodes in and have managed to stay spoiler free - which is to say, surprised - but wherever this season ultimately stands/ends, Antony Starr is pretty unnerving as one of the most memorably scary and unstable villains maybe ever.

hes so great in this. he was also great in one of my all time fav shows, banshee.

i liked the season overall, agree that it didn't pack the same punch as season 2. the show was obviously never subtle, but it did feel like there was a little too much "this is just like what's happening in america today, do you seeeee???" this year.

for all the violence in the show, the one scene i've ever had to fast forward was that one scene with the deep and his friend timothy. just too much.

Yeah, that was rough.

I think the satirical "do you seee?" stuff is ok, because they are doing it and drawing blood better than most, imo. Like I said, no idea where this season is going, but I find its developments scarily plausible (in this fictional context).

agreed, it definitely does draw blood with its satire, but there are moments like the imagine video where they're just lazily on the nose, imo.

the one scene i've ever had to fast forward was that one scene with the deep and his friend timothy. just too much.

Same!

It's kind of a particular challenge that I know a lot of comedians have talked about over the last few years. When real life politics (and related stuff) straddles the line between horror and self-parody, it's hard to find a way in to making jokes out of it. I saw lots of comments from people pledging to go Trump-joke free, for example, because what can you say? This show, though ... I dunno. I haven't made it to what you hid (though I had already heard about it) but the riff on the Pepsi ad? I had forgotten about that already, as have maybe many, which I think made it all the more effective. Like, what a world we live in, you know? But the show integrated it really well I thought.

a-train's storyline felt extraneous at times, but that was one of the areas where i appreciated the message more than the story machinations.

the end of a-train's storyline was a goddamn punch to the gut, so brutal and awful

My local library discontinued Kanopy. (For the time being, anyway, I'm able to log in using my card from a different library system--that may end at some point.) They've replaced it with Hoopla, I'm guessing because it's less expensive. Took a quick look, and one thing they have that looks interesting (Kanopy may have it too) is a 1973 documentary directed by Susan Sontag about the Yom Kippur War. I've read a few books by or about Sontag, but news to me.

(On YouTube, too.)

Ethan Hawke’s Paul Newman/Joann Woodward doc series “The Last movie Stars” is on HBO and its so goddamn good, i am in love with it

anything non Star Trek worth checking out on Paramount +?

Beavis and Butthead movie.

There's a documentary about China called Ascension which we have saved for later.

Evil, one of my fave shows these days - creepy, hilarious, utterly bonkers at times

xpost "Ascension" is pretty incredible.

About halfway through the first season after seeing lots of positive reviews/talk about it xp

Seconding Josh – the B&B movie is great, if you’ve ever been a fan. I was laughing hard at a few parts. (It’s also sort of the Twin Peaks: The Return of B&B.)

cosigning w Roz re Evil

Is "The Old Man" actually 8 episodes or is the end of #7 a massive cliffhanger leading to season 2?

I see it's 7 -- that's a hell of a cliffhanger, I hope Bridges can stay alive to shoot it.

There's a documentary about China called Ascension which we have saved for later.

Easily one of my fave movies from last year. Hoping more folks get to see it.

started watching Mark Ronson's Apple+ sound documentary series - he seems like a nice enough guy and has good taste, kind of weird when they play anything he's done aside from Amy Winehouse and it's absolute garbage

Finished The Bear which is ok, but I didn't love it, because the basic premise still doesn't make sense to me: why did a sandwhich shop have this much staff? Like an expert pastry chef? I gather you're supposed to assume that Michael hired and brought these people on because he himself was such a foodie but unfortunately you don't get a sense of that until the end of the series. I do think the last two episodes were the best ones. Also it's not clear to me at all what was going on with the money in the cans.

akm, here you go: https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/the-bear-ending-where-did-the-money-come-from

The dead brother had that unmarked ledger where it looked like he was making monthly payments toward something, but it turned out that was what he was storing away. I liked this show’s balance of veracity/imagination more than most things I try to watch.

why did a sandwhich shop have this much staff? Like an expert pastry chef?

They definitely seemed to have more people than they strictly needed, but TBF the pastry-chef guy was originally just there to bake the sandwich rolls; he was inspired by Carmy's arrival to begin expressing his inner self as a pastry chef.

I just finished it last night, too. I think Michael, rather than paying his bills, had been squirreling away the money into those cans, so that after he killed himself his brother would have money to open up a new place. In an earlier episode Oliver Platt offered to buy it from him to absolve the debt. Now Carmy can sell the beef stand to Platt and use all that cash to open a new place.

The pastry chef is self taught, though for sure at least in the context of the beef stand ("there is always money in the beef stand, wink wink") there's no reason to have the dead weight around of a guy experimenting with high-end donuts. The other staff, at first it does seem too big, but I have no idea. Our own awesome local sausage/burger stand down the street has been struggling with a host of issues (not unlike the show, come to think of it), and recently (successfully) raised over $100k from customers and fans to take care of pressing issues. Our place is a hole in the wall, and apparently even it requires four people, minimum, to run efficiently. Dine in (which they do not have, but I think this show's place does) requires more, since someone has to wash dishes and stuff. Still, I think the staff in The Bear is only five or so, plus a couple of dishwashers?

Wait, wtf? The money *is* the $300K loan from Platt? So Michael took it, hid it, and left it to Carmine? I guess that would lead to the same result. Carmine can sell the place to Platt, cancel out his debt, and then put that cash into a new place.

Yeah, I don't actually know how many people it takes to run what seems from the outside to be a very small restaurant. I have food service experience, but it was at an airport food court which served thousands of people every day so we had a massive amount of people working there.

only a few episodes in but it seems pretty clear that everybody there already worked there except for the young woman who follows him there. Everybody's like "don't mess with our system".

yeah, the entire thing was that Michael was really struggling and wanted to make a franchise, and figure out how to bring his brother into everything, but he just didn't have the ability to work it out

so he did what he did, but left Carmy with the ability to do his own thing with the seed money he never spent