They were great in the first two seasons. Now they're just overdone. It's too much. They're trying to add comedy but it doesn't work. There's too many Faks. Brother Fak. WWE Fak. Uncle Fak.
I’m a restaurant person. I have a couple very successful locations and it’s been an addiction for 15 years. I think that the third season digs into this and I personally find it brilliant. DD
It’s fully Fak heavy… but at the end of the day, it was fine and I did like the back door ability to bring a cameo in (“make them a Fak!”). Plus Matty Matheson is now an EP and I’m sure has a lot of influence on his role.
After finishing the last episode, I can say this was a bad season. Too much filler. Episode 1, Fak nonsense, Tina episode, birthday episode, more b roll. I'd be fine with the filler if there was actual plot advancement. But there wasn't.
Finally getting through this season and that episode is my favorite from all of the seasons. It is going to hit hard for anyone that has "been there." Just brilliantly done.
Without spoilers, can someone comment on the very first episode of season 3 as I really did not like it. I’m usually all for atmospheric and even melancholic background music to set the mood, but almost a whole episode?! I did not like that one bit. Is it just me and was I missing something? Will it make sense later on why that choice was made?
I thought the same. Seemed to me that there’s some poor quality control happening with that executive producer team. Yes this showrunner, direction, and writing team are mostly doing amazing stuff here. However with some basic quality control someone overseeing this would have brought up how looping that same track would take the audience out of the mood of the episode. Also the audio track is very clearly inspired or ripped off from the song “the day the world went away” by Nine Inch Nails. A lot of people will pick up on that and it’ll take them out of the episode. Other than that yes the whole episode being a montage doesn’t really work for me in this format where there are obvious cuts made for commercials. It could have worked as a full uncut 20 minute montage for sure but that’s not the format they knew they were working with so again.. it’s a quality control issue. I’m on episode 4 now and I think there’s still a lot to love about this show especially for folks that have worked in the industry. There are clearly talented creatives and amazing actors involved and so I’m in it till the end and the ability to binge with this season is probably a good thing. Otherwise I’d fear that a lot of people would skip after the first episode. So yeah to your question I think there’s issues with this episode that to me come down to quality control. Someone on the executive production side should have stepped in and said this isn’t working and you need to recut and re score this episode.
A friend of mine described this season as "A great show that now knows it's great" and that's a problem. You get an over-indulgent season that barely progresses the plot and pounds the same themes into the ground.
Yeah I am at episode 8 and that sounds like a perfect description. So far it feels like I've watched 2 episodes with some character deep dives that were extra / bonus content or whatever. It's easily the worst season and feels like they had no intention to move this ahead. Not a single twist so far, all straightforward, recycled themes, setting and formation and then in degraded form as well.
About 4 episodes in (S3). Only way I can describe it - it's like ever episode is trying to win an award. Lulz. It's as if S3 (from what I have seen so far) is trying to be what The Bear restaurant is trying to be in S3 (so far). Which reminds me of another Chicago style commitment to perfection - Melancholy & the Infinite Sadness.
Jesus christ, the last 2-3 episodes might have been the worst along with the first. It actually doesn't even end and supposedly it was a part 1 and they shot season 3 and 4 back-to-back. Could be a bad sign, so more of the same ****, or actually season 4 is when it finally starts to become good again. I fear it's the former though, even if I wasn't that invested anyway. But season 1 & 2 were good, this was just all-round bad. Terrible editing and writing. I saw online a lot of people describe it too as if every episode they tried to win an award and I think I concur. Not all episodes, but many just seemed to have this way of trying to be fancy with the music and clips shown and everything, but it doesn't do anything but annoy me. The scenes where we're seeing things from the Bear's POV and him in thought, going crazy etc. didn't need all of that. It was fine the way it was in season 1 & 2. You know it's a bit similar to Ted Lasso season 3 where they also tried to get fancy in the 3rd season, but for the most part that was to be attributed to the showrunner leaving and leaving things in charge of a rookie. Episodes got too long, dragged out and a lot of unnecessary and out of character plot points were introduced.
