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2 hours ago, iknowgungfu said:

Half way through the and enjoying too. Really hard to explain what it is about though to anyone. 
 

Plus, the main character looks like a real world Flint Lockwood. 

It's about doing a very intense stressful job. 

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PeteJ

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Superb. Absolutely top drawer film making, everything is done to a very high level. Intense and utterly gripping. 

 

My other half hated it but still watched it all. She felt her senses were being assaulted and in particular she couldn't stand the cousin character. I get that, but for me it all worked.  Definitely up there with the best this year. 

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Absolutely loved this. no bad performances at all. Quick thought re the last episode or two
 

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Not sure if others would agree or not but I didn’t think the main character was out of line at all when he told Sydney to get the f**k off the station in episode 7  she’d cocked up massively, was arrogant, and not listening to his instructions. 
 

I know the show was trying to see he’d been drawn towards his old head chef’s behaviour but he really hadn’t - this was stress not cruelty  

 

also, even though Cousin was a tit a lot of the time, Sydney’s little attack on him in ep 7 was out of order too (the bit about his daughter in particular)  

 

 

 

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On 23/10/2022 at 08:57, joemul said:

Absolutely loved this. no bad performances at all. Quick thought re the last episode or two
 

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Not sure if others would agree or not but I didn’t think the main character was out of line at all when he told Sydney to get the f**k off the station in episode 7  she’d cocked up massively, was arrogant, and not listening to his instructions. 
 

I know the show was trying to see he’d been drawn towards his old head chef’s behaviour but he really hadn’t - this was stress not cruelty  

 

also, even though Cousin was a tit a lot of the time, Sydney’s little attack on him in ep 7 was out of order too (the bit about his daughter in particular)  

 

 

 


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I have still a bit more sympathy for her than for Marcus, who was basically just refusing to do any actual work. 

 

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Garwoofoo

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Watched the first couple of episodes of this, it's brilliant so far and can't wait to get stuck into the rest.

 

Vastly prefer this to Boiling Point, which I found really stagey and contrived, and in that it was really obvious that no-one was actually preparing any food. The Bear feels like real people doing a real job, and it lifts the show from the very first scene.

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On 21/10/2022 at 12:42, monkeydog said:

Just finished Ep8. The series is my favourite of the year I think. It's just a fucking sandwich shop drama for christ sake! 😁

They should do other dramas like this but in different settings - maybe do one in a bureau de change or something. 

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On 31/10/2022 at 13:39, schmojo said:

It feels like incredibly melodramatic people conflating serving mid-range sandwiches with being a frontline warzone medic.

 

The stress and pressure I have felt in my wide variety of jobs has been inversely proportional to their 'significance'.

 

Nothing has been more stressful than my time being a minimum wage factory worker.

 

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ZOK

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Just polished the end of this off, great show! Re the end, for some reason I was expecting Mikey’s letter 

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would contain a cheque in it or something, so I was very glad when it didn’t, but it was money anyway so I was on the right track at least. But I couldn’t understand why the money was in there - obviously he was stashing it but why? And how was it made? And if there’s all that cash, why didn’t he pay off Cicero etc?

 

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SpagMasterSwift

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I thought the 

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money was from the loan he took out, knowing that it would result in bringing that part of the family back together ultimately as they'd be indebted to them (initially at least)? His plan was to bring the family back together after his death - and it all worked out amazingly!

 

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ZOK

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8 minutes ago, SpagMasterSwift said:

I thought the 

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money was from the loan he took out, knowing that it would result in bringing that part of the family back together ultimately as they'd be indebted to them (initially at least)? His plan was to bring the family back together after his death - and it all worked out amazingly!

 


Hmmm…a  very reasonable hypothesis, although pretty far fetched!
 

A bit of a shame 

 

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the letter didn’t say ‘Never forget Carmy, there’s always money in spaghetti sauce! And the banana stand!’

 

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Alan Stock

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Ah, I was wondering about that as well, I guess that makes sense, sort of. Very cheesy if so though! 

 

The show was great though, I'm not usually into normal dramas but the kitchen and insane energy of it was so compelling. I've worked in kitchens before and they have captured briiliantly the tempo, the stress, the language and how fatgiuing it is. And of course the tight bond that you get with your co-workers in this mini warzone. It must have been pretty crazy to shoot and stage as it looks so authentic. The timing must be a nightmare with all the moving parts. I guess the only sad thing about this programme is that if things start going well for them, you lose pretty much the core of the show, the chaos and the conflict. I think I'd be happy if they just left it as it is, with hope for the future and not a descent into a culinary hellhole!

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Yobo Ahoy

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Absolutely loved this. Really not sure why it was marketed as anything near a comedy but it's properly gripping throughout. 

 

My wife's brother died a couple of months back so it was a bit of a difficult watch sometimes but I feel like they really nailed the grief element - it did mean I was crying uncontrollably at the end of the last episode though! Not sure how I feel about a second series, it's a great cast and there are a few questions left unanswered but that was an absolutely perfect 8 episode run.

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