‚The Bear‘ hatte eine überraschende Emmys -Nacht – und es könnte eine große Veränderung für die Show bedeuten

I loved the show before it became unBEARably pretentious

I’m glad they didn’t win anything. Series 3 and 4 have been pretty unbearable 😬

They lost the magic. Tried too hard for art, abandoned the fun jokes in the restaurant.

The reason my family and I watched this show was 1 scene in season 1.
Early on in the show they drop a bottle of xanax in koolaide at a kids party and knocked all the kids out. Everyone shrugged.

My family and I couldnt stop cracking up. We watched every season after and while there were some good episodes, it was never funny or light hearted again. Season 1 was Ted Lasso for Restaurants. They gave that up for hype.

I LOVED seasons 1 and 2 when there was still *some* lightheartedness to it, but these past two seasons it just feels like everyone is absolutely miserable. Which I get it’s the story they’re going for but it’s missing magic emotional moments like “I love you dude, let it rip” and Richie singing Taylor Swift in triumph. I think people are just fatigued by the show at this point

Became too miserable. But not overtly. Like in a depressing quiet way.

I still like the show and hope that the Emmys just wanted to reward comedies in the comedy category. That’s been a farce from the start. It’s not even a drama, it’s actively depressing and maybe even trauma-inducing.

The Bear is a Westworld level fumble. I do not understand why a 5th season is even happening, especially when the entire cast has outgrown it and the writing has absolutely no direction and nothing to say.

I’m a little surprised there’s hate for Season 2. Richie’s story when he goes to learn at the fancy restaurant is one of the best episodes of the entire series and he has the best character development.

I like it I don’t know, I like the artsy direction and the funny stuff, the artistic shots are beautiful I think

you’re all wrong you don’t deserve this show

Why is this show in the Comedy category???

I still enjoy this show. I do agree season 4 is my least favorite, but still worth watching. I’m excited for whenever season 5 comes out.

It peaked during the Christmas episode.

I really like the show but admit it’s deteriorated some. I use the season 2 “Fishes” episode (extreme family dysfunction) in a class I teach.

Season 3 was HORRENDOUSLY BAD, like depression bad

Good news for the people that want to stick around though, season 4 was better, not season 1&2 better but definitely better

Although I’m hoping season 5 is the last one and they wrap it up nicely

S1 is a rolling panic attack of a show, and something that doesn’t usually happen unless you’re watching something by the Safdie Brothers, or *Whiplash*. It demanded your attention while also feeling incredibly true to that world and the people who live in it. You wanted The Beef to survive. You wanted Carmy to get his shit together—and we also wanted to understand the latent mystery of what *happened* to his brother. Pretty typical Season 1 hook for a show.

S2 is where I feel everything came together: **It was** ***Rocky*****, set in a restaurant.** Everyone was an underdog. They all had wins and arcs. You found yourself becoming deeply invested in whether one guy would get good at making cakes, or if another could get over his social issues and learn the finer points of hospitality. We understand what everyone is up against (trauma, mostly!) but we see them try and stumble towards improvement.

S3 just feels…like the focus shifted too far for too many people. They’re no longer underdogs. Carmy isn’t using the tools of high cuisine and applying them to a local spot; he’s just turned The Bear into another Michelin-star-chasing venue. Which is fine, why not shoot for the peak of the mountain? But everyone I know who dropped the show, did so somewhere in S3. All of the clear underdog arcs were essentially dealt with at the end of S2, leaving us only with the continued issues of Carmy’s mental health driving everyone else away, and the rest of the cast trying to deal with that.

None of the accurate and down-to-Earth grit of S1 to balance out the intensity. None of the underdogs-taking-their-shot momentum that carried S2. It’s really worth noting that the best episodes of S3 (Tina’s flashback and the Faks dinner) either jump back in time to when The Beef was a scrappy local spot again, or throw everyone into a chaotic moment that forces them to lock in. All of S3 is essentially the final scene of *Ratatouille*, spread out across 10 hours: A restaurant working hard to impress a critic, waiting for the result, and then **not even revealing that result until the next season.** I can understand why people were turned off.

It also feels like S4, while sharing a lot of those same issues, does feel like a major course correction. The 2-month time limit, while in many ways feeling very artificial, does add that sense of S1 pressure and focus. It basically brings every character’s emotional arcs to a close in a way that possibly/probably *should* have happened in S3. It genuinely could work as a series finale, and the fact that it doesn’t have to is kind of interesting. Maybe S5 will be a huge mistake! Or maybe it will do enough of a time jump that everyone can bring new challenges to the table.

But I totally get why S3 didn’t catch the Emmy buzz. I feel that S4 might bring them back to the table—but they’ll also bring the whole „Is It A Drama or a Comedy?“ conversation with them.

I’m still trying to figure out how, like, 37 people fit under the same buffet table.

How is this show even a comedy!?!

I agree that it’s not a comedy but the people calling it bad are simply wrong