"The Bear" Season 3 was disappointing (and they knew it) | Review
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Is "The Bear" Season 3 bad? "The Bear" Season 3 was disappointing and I think the creators knew it. So much of the plot is centered around how hard it is to achieve greatness and worries about how to keep the magic of creation. The show The Bear does this in the context of their new restaurant but I believe the creators and creatives on this show were trying to communicate to us the audience about their own struggles with continuing to create a fresh, innovative, and critically acclaimed TV show. It is unfortunate because I think like Carmy in the Bear the creators of this streaming show feel like they need to give us a different dish every day when the reality is what we want is the meat that have grown accustomed to with maybe some slight variation. I hope that Season 4 of "The Bear" gets back on track and gives us the content that we crave from this legitimately great world that these showrunners created. The Bear is available on Hulu and made by FX.
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Agree100%!!! I kept hoping it would all make sense, somehow! WHY did we not get any resolution, or at least progression between Richie and Carm? WHY did we have to watch Carmey look through cookbooks and draw pictures for 10 minutes???? And, THEN…why did we have to watch a close up of him getting ready to go to the funeral for like four minutes??? So much wasted time sandwiched between vague flashbacks, mysterious “reviews,” and artsy closeups of food????? It was beyond disappointing. Thank you for validating my feelings. I searched “The Bear disappointing season 3” and found your spot-on review. I actually felt bad for feeling betrayed. Now I know I’m not crazy. Thank you, again! PS: I, too, loved the episode about Tina and the episode about Sugar and Dee Dee at the hospital.
it doesnt have to pay off in one season, then whats the point of watching the next
I learned absolutely NOTHING from season 3 nobody solved anything. Carmie never even spoke to Claire the whole season. Him n Richie never made up it’s just ALOT of NOTHING going on
Im with you there
I absolutely loved season 1 & 2, and was so excited for season 3. I havent been so let down by a show since Weeds lol.
thaaaank you. thank you thank you. i've been feeling insane seeing the praise, especially for the first episode, because I felt like the bear's strength, especially in season 1, was that the subtext was so strong and so EFFICIENT and 3x1 felt like the complete inverse of that, negatively. couldn't believe when the montage kept continuing - and then going into 3x2, I was frustrated that all that rehashing in ep 1 was leading into an episode that was essentially one scene where there was barely progression still from the end of 2x10. i see people saying that these episodes are doing character work/exploration, but as you said - i feel like i'm not getting anything new to chew on so what is the work actually being done??- all the things especially in 3x1 was mostly already in the subtext in prev seasons, which is why the show had previously felt so rich in character/story/theme by respecting the audience enough to explore all that depth. forcing me to watch a montage for 35 min showing me explicitly all the character work they already so successfully layered and built into the previous seasons was so disappointing to me when i felt they were betraying what had been their strength as a show all along.
based on the previous two seasons, I also had high expectations, which I felt were warranted. i felt like i was being asked to praise the show for idk being "meta" in some kind of way, that the disappointment and frustration the episodes were causing the viewer to feel was the intention. that ~carmy's stuck so we are stuck! all! season!, that he's spinning his wheels and not communicating so we don't get anything else communicated to us by the show either! if we feel frustrated by the season then they did what they wanted to accomplish because we feel what the characters are feeling!~ and i... just don't find that very compelling as a viewer at all actually.
in s2 i was initially worried in the first two episodes because i saw them leaning a bit too much in to superficial elements that previously resonated with viewers - richie and fak in artificially drawn out fights in s2x2 comes to mind, but they managed to pull out of it and produce another great season of tv that was different from the first season but still worked in new great ways! but this one... all the cameos, the wasted time, the emptiness... again, i dont find the "meta" argument convincing when it comes to praise for the season. to me, it feels a bit overly self-indulgent/self-important at times to ask the viewer to find this kind of experience satisfying, which felt worse for the obvious way the story had been stretched thin to accommodate the show being given more episodes/another season.
honestly it kind of is a credit to the show overall in a way that this season has compelled me to think so much about why it didnt work for me - because it had been such a breath of fresh air in the current tv/film landscape and i wanted to see it maintain that standard. fans did have high expectations for this season! i hope that in s4 the resolutions to the conflicts carried over from s2 and mostly stalled through s3 improve how i feel about s3 despite it feeling like a waste of story real estate so to speak, which it likely will since it does feel like they decided to stretch one season of material into two. for a show with "every second counts" as an important moniker, though, well.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
it feels good to find other people who felt similarly and want to explore criticizing a show we love and enjoy and want to see succeed! lol ended up having a lot more to say here than anticipated, but i haven't been able to really let go of my feelings about this season since watching yet. i think some segment of viewers can have a knee jerk reaction that any criticism means that the person critiquing thinks the whole show should be thrown away and has never done anything good! which is not it at all! definitely not. anyways... ended up with a bit of an essay here 😅thanks for sharing your honest thoughts on the season!!
I really appreciate this post. Thanks for writing it! It too made me feel like I wasn’t crazy
I just finished season 3, and I have to say, you're COMPLETELY spot-on....unfortunately. season 3 was such a let down, key word, resolve....there was zero. Fluff and disorientation was rampant. Additionally, I felt they were letting the actors improv waaaay too much, Fak brother scenes, which I know were intended as comic relief, were crazy annoying (Hulu lists this show as a comedy......what?!?!?).
Obviously, I'll be watching season 4 as I'm too invested in the outcome but I'd rather see 'The Bear' (the restaurant) fail then see them drag the storyline of struggle another season. It's giving Walking Dead vibes.....ugh, super annoyed and can't believe I'm seeing any reviews that says this season was brilliant.
I got halfway through season 3 and bailed on it! May check out season 4, probably not.
Everything that was stated in this review is spot on and exactly how everyone I know that watches the show feels too about season 3. It felt bumpy the first few episodes in, but as soon as John Cena was on screen I knew the season wasn't going to recover. The whole season felt like fanfiction or a SNL skit. It's the biggest let down of a great show since Game of Thrones.
I believe season 3 should have been about the restaurant losing money and stability due to Carmy's decision making BUT to the point where Uncle offers Sydney head chef status, threatening Carmy with closing of the restaurant if he doesn't give up being head chef willingly. Carmy chooses to keep The Bear afloat even if it means he can no longer work there because it keeps the memory of Michael alive. What a fuckin set up for season 4 right?
Have a great restaurant review come in mid season, but based on a night where Sydney was fully in charge because Carmy couldn't make the shift (thus two examples of things going more smoothly when Carmy isn't around). Uncle is pragmatic and chooses Sydney because she's dependable, and Sugar chooses Sydney because she thinks it's good for Carmy. Season 4 we explore Carmy's hurt, but also his realizations that he needed help to slow down and deal with his shit, maybe he even ends up back at the restaurant or maybe he starts a bakery with Markus, or maybe he takes up illustration and works in a cafe. Maybe he volunteers at the hospital to see what Claire's life is like. Sydney realizes she can't get a star without Carmy and tries to bring him back in. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. Point is, something like this forces characters to make a bunch of bold decisions which season 3 is lacking.
We see Sydney's background failing her catering business which informs her decision to betray Carmy.
It relies on the character development of Uncle and Sugar from the last two seasons, of Uncle making money-based decisions and Sugar trying to make sure her family is "ok" and not wanting Carmy to go the route of Michael or Donna.
Tina's story can be about her kid getting into trouble so often she can't be at the restaurant as much (maybe she gets him a job doing the beef with Ibrim also why in three seasons have we been given almost no real info about Ibrim??), Sydney is overly relying on the inexperienced Tina to create high dining quality food and she's struggling to keep up (like in the show but more often). Napkins is a great episode to show us how desperate and hard ass Tina is to learn new things to keep afloat, so we get to see her struggle and victory? Potential failure?
Ritchie's story was honestly pretty good (except for all the stupid yelling). The stuff with him and his kid and divorce hits hard.
Markus probably quits on the spot and walks out with Carmy.
NO JOHN CENA.
Anyway those are my thoughts lol
Thank you for not being a show writer🙏🏻🙏🏻
AGREED! Sadly there's rumors they've already filmed several episodes of Season 4 so unlikely they will hear and be able to apply audience feedback. But, I couldn't agree more with every one of your points! I am not an aspiring chef, in fact i hate cooking. I fell in love with this show not because of food but because I related to Carmy's ambition, tenacity, and admired his ability to "make it out" of a toxic family dynamic and be successful. Those are universal themes that ANYONE can relate to. I'm pretty sure the last episode included many real top chefs, not actors and was like a very niche love letter to the fine dining community which... in attempting to do something inclusive, actually ended up being very alienating the 95% of viewers who don't know or give a crap who the hell these ppl are. I hope season 4 is better & last but not least, I am a SydCarmy truther 4ever LOL 😉
What did you think about this season of The Bear?
I can understand not liking season 3 from a perspective of finding it too experimental ( the comparison between the new style the show is using for season 3 and carm's ever changing menu is pretty brilliant I must say) but I don't understand the criticisms around the jumps in time or montages - I rewatched the show right before binging all of season 3 today and It's weird to say that these are new for the show when they have been apart of it since the beginning, and it's even been pretty experimental from the start with some of the scenes being not actually happening in reality (carm with the bear on the bridge where mike died) and the dodgy cgi fires caused by carm. Can't say I understand your criticism for the finale either, it's a celebration of real chefs and the casts time trying to learn how to cook in real kitchens. Olivia Colman's character and her restaurant is not used at all as just a call back, the theme of every second counts isn't even a theme of that episode but something very meaningful and important to those chefs in that final scene before they leave for the party.
I hate to be the 'media literacy is dead guy' but you're not really convincing me that you actually understood what you watched or even thought about it for that long before turning on the camera. Regardless of the experimental format the show has now leaned into, it still presents most of the cast with a conventional story line that they follow throughout the season (Marcus working through his mother's death, Sydney moving out and trying to prepare herself for a decision that could alter her life, etc.) We even get more smaller stories with sweeps trying to become a sommelier, nat giving birth, richie and carm growing further apart, and jimmy starting to gradually have more faith in the bear. I get that not having the main plotlines be resolved all nice and cleanly leaves us uncertain of the future for these characters but it's only continuing to do what season 1 and 2 did, we have no idea what the future of the beef/bear actually was going to be once they found mike's loan money or how the bear would've continued to operate after a pretty disastrous opening night or what carmy and marcus would do after the episode. Very open cliff-hangers and plot lines is not new for this show and neither is a lot of the more experimental aspects that make this show such a pleasure to watch
I’m with you disagreeing about my conclusions, but the claim that I’m not understanding what I watched is a bit harsh and I’m not gonna lie kinda bums me out. I have a different reading than you that’s all. And perhaps I didn’t articulate it all perfectly but I have thought a lot about it. I know that the experimental elements were there previously but they didn’t dominant the show as they do in season three. I think they were used as a crutch in season three, rather than as a selective device as in the previous two seasons. The “every second counts” call back cheapen the impact because in S2 its significance was more with how the audience discovered the meaning over the course of that season, so having characters explicity point out the meaning but looking at the sign and mentioning it, was a real telling rather than showing moment for me. And most importantly, I really didn’t feel any satisfying character development, only the beginnings of changes in characters. To me this is clearly half a season that will be resolved in the next installment (something common in TV that I suppose shouldn’t surprise me but still annoys me). There’s a lot more I could discuss on every point and I might be wrong about all of it. I’m fine with anyone disagreeing on any of that, but to levy the claim that media criticism is dead because I didn’t accurately argue my opinion to your satisfaction is kinda over the top and ngl felt a bit too personally insulting. (But yeah it’s the internet so whatever) I’m glad you thought a lot about this season and got enjoyment from it. I really wanted to like it, so I’m glad you did. I’m also super happy when people have different takes than I do. I love that people think a lot about what they watch. It’d just be cooler if you didn’t have to vaguely insinuate that my review is lazy and somehow bad for media criticism. Cheers.
Everyone hates the ending lmao. I’m the only one who likes Season 3.
Haven’t finished the video but I agree, missed the actual cooking and didn’t enjoy how stressful every dam episode was, can people have some dam happiness sometime 😂
very thoughtful review
Thank you!
i enjoyed season 3 there wasnt anything wrong with it.
the character development was great specially with richie.
sometimes it comes across as these negative reviews as click bait. theres alot of hype around the show right now and negativity brings views. gross
This isn’t click bait it’s my actual opinion
I think it’s cool if you liked the season, personally I found all the character development to just be carried over from last season and there wasn’t enough change from the start of the season to the end. There is a good amount of stuff to like in this season and I mentioned it in my review. Actually I hate giving negative reviews and they normally don’t do as well as my positive reviews, also I’m an editor myself so I know how it feels to have someone critique what I’ve done: trust me when I say this isn’t for views I just don’t want to lie about my opinion. I said multiple times that I like the show and think the people making it are talented, there were just a things that disappointed me and I wanted to voice them.
Honestly, I was really thankful for this review because I felt bad about not liking this season. I still love the show and the characters, I just agree with all of the points made in this review!
@@shikouji yeah I am with Mint on this one, I originally felt that it wasn’t too bad of a season but after watching this I realized why I wasn’t super excited for season 4. Of course I want to and will watch but I am just not excited.
Lol it was so mediocre
Dope review!! I used to love this show… now I hate it… thanks man. 😂😢
Hate is a strong word which is why I said disappointed 😂 I think they can get it back on track next season
Season 3 isn't even done, though. So this is pointless.
It’s not? What do you mean?
@@MintVolcano unlike any other season "to be continued" is shown at the end of episode 10 this season, meaning that the story arc they have planned for season 3 was too long to fit into the (relatively new) 10 episode format. So whatever is coming up should be considered a continuation of season 3 and not "season 4".
@@dresdenwarlock7978 for me the problem is they definitely could have fit the planned story arch into 10 eps. They are dragging it out on purpose it would have been much better to tighten up and focus on story