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There’s just something I can’t stand so much about The Bear and it really gelled in the family drama Christmas dinner episode. Just exhausting self-importance I sense whenever someone is conspicuously trying to make a “good” show.
On the other hand, The Other Two S3 has been phenomenal and I highly recommend it.
Took the words right out of my mouth. They also overcast that episode… Jamie Lee Curtis is good but adding Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Gillian Jacobs and John Mulaney to the mix is way too much star power - completely blows out the groundedness of the show. Plus throwing in Olivia Colman in a later episode… oof. And I really liked Season 1.
Yeah it was a little weird in S1 that the brother was Jon Berenthal when the show seems like it’s striving for a semblance of verite in its casting. But then EVERY guest role is filled by an A- List actor (you forgot Will Poulter in the CPH ep), it gets a bit silly.
Also, don’t quite get starting and ending the season on the black guy’s mom health issues when he’s a pretty minor character to the whole show (not to mention giving him is own ep which didn’t do much for me, esp when they did a better version in the Olivia Colman ep).
It annoyed me in the same way Ramy annoyed me (these are mostly the white people from that show who you can tell are from Chicago, huge Wilco heads in college, then moved to NY bc that’s where important things were made) and half of the episodes of Master of None, where it’s trying to be NPR “comedy” or something.
Also - I can’t stand another show after Shameless where this guy plays a super talented Chicago man with a large family but for plot reasons always has to get in his own way.