Just binged season 2 in the past 24 hours…sounds so hyperbolic but maybe my favorite season of tv all time. Forks one of the best episodes of tv ever.
Agree with everything @JaredESmith said about the finale above. Totally heartbreaking and a stomach punch for all of Carmy’s hardwork and investment in these people come to fruition and him to believe he failed everyone. Can’t wait for Season 3!
Watching schedule is going much slower than expected as the girlfriend wants to watch along (we did watch S01 together).
We have Episode 6 lined-up for tonight, have not spoiled myself apart from expecting a long one with cameos, I’m both hyped and dreading it as Episode 3-5 were way too chill.
How about now?
Count me among those who understands the importance of E6, but didn’t “like” it. I feel like it could have been episode 2 or 3 and fit a bit better. Or just interspersed throughout the season, and still done its job.
Ditto. Overlooked few seconds of the episode there.
I like the show’s “like” of R.E.M.
I started watching Season 1 a few days ago. Watched all of season 2 in the last 24 hours.
I haven’t looked yet but I assume there is a spotify playlist for season 2 that im gonna be playing nonstop all week while skipping that t swift diddy.
Season 1 AND 2
Never been so happy to be proven wrong. Haha.
Couldn’t be me
I waited to visit this thread until I was done with Season 2, to avoid spoilers. I agree with several people here, I think Episode 7 was my favorite of the season. We stopped for the night after watching Episode 6, because it was a lot, and I regret that decision in retrospect. Following it up with Episode 7 would’ve been a great idea, but had no way of knowing that.
I think I’m here. Lots of people have said something similar, but this show makes me feel, and care about the individual characters, in a way that I never did for anyone on Succession. The emotional ride in Episode 7 is only possible because I care about Richie. And that’s not necessarily a criticism of Succession - I don’t think you’re really supposed to care what happens to Shiv, Kendall, et al., because they’re comically bad people. But I do think it elevates this show for me.
Purpose, Chef!
This is the part that threw me the most. Just completely fucked with my suspension of disbelief. Besides that I thought the finale was pretty sweet though, honestly. Wrapped a bow on things nicely, had a couple of interesting callbacks, etc.
People keep saying it’s not possible to get locked into a walk-in fridge. Clearly this one was ancient and busted up. Why is it so improbable that one could get locked in? I also thought the point was that everyone else just jumped in and did their work (as Carmy had prepared them for) and that sure, with some work they could have gotten him out (though the end suggested it needed a hacksaw) but they needed to work the kitchen instead. I didn’t really bump at all on this FWIW
I’m through episode 7 and all I can say is that ep 6 was maybe the most difficult ep of television I’ve ever watched followed by one of the most inspiring and beautiful episodes I’ve ever seen.
I think as men, as humans, we want to have purpose and to MATTER. watching Richie develop the way he did hit me very deeply and very very personally. This may be one of those things you watch that lends to some serious introspection. All I know is that I had tears when he was driving blaring T Swift. That sense of personal discovery, sense of meaning, sense of being someone that matters was, in a word, beautiful.
I LOVED LOVED LOVED that episode. God damn this show is incredible.
Edit: I’m quickly running through posts to avoid spoilers but I 100% agree that as much as I loved Succession, The Bear is more enjoyable.
I worked in a grocery store as a teenager and the first thing I said to my wife is “that can’t actually happen”. I suppose it’s not impossible, but a lot of things have to go wrong. It’s clearly a big safety issue and a lot of people have spent a lot of time designing those things so that it never happens. But TV always finds a way. I mean, I don’t know anyone who has ever disappeared into quicksand, but when I was seven or eight years old, I was pretty sure it was the third leading cause of death.
I think the only way it can happen is if the door or handle gets blocked on the outside. Any time you hear about someone getting stuck it’s because someone locked it while the were inside or something fell and blocked the door or got the handle stuck. We used to jam the handle with the mop to lock people in when I worked at LJS. Kids are dumb.
Richie was already close to the top of my all time favorite characters after season one (“sorry for the gun babe, but I had to get real”; replicants; etc.), but season two might have made him take the pole position. Incredible acting and writing.
I might be wrong, but I swear when we’d see shots of Carm from inside the cooler, looking toward the door, it didn’t have the plunger on the inside that allows you to open it from within? Like someone said, maybe this one is just incredibly old, or maybe that mechanism broke when they ripped the handle off, and it was just stuck in place. I guess in theory condensation could have rusted it out over time and caused it to just lock in place
Fair, I was just making an observation. Honestly it never even occurred to me while watching it that it was far-fetched. I don’t remember how the walk-in at LJS opened from the inside, it was a looong time ago and it was the last time I was in one.
Rewatching the whole series and I just got back to the early episodes of Season 2 and realized that Carmy did, in fact, call the fridge guy and left a message (after first being thwarted when Marcus tried to throw him the phone with the fridge guy on the line, only Carmy was not looking and the phone shattered). Of course he should have followed up, but I know this is a point I would have made in my defense in a similar situation with some sort of domestic repair - “I did call them, honey, they just have not responded.”
I am kinda perplexed that no one thinks it’s possible to get locked inside a walk-in cooler. If it’s an older walk-in with no plunger to get out (or a plunger that doesn’t work) you can get locked in. It has happened to me. Luckily, it was only for a few minutes but if the mechanism to open the walk-in malfunctions it very possible.
The handle locking or not working properly was mentioned many times throughout the season.