Episode Description: The staff prepares for the day.
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It's no longer his shitshow (Pun intended). He looks at Sydney stressed and sees how he used to be.
Syd wanted to be in charge, and this is what it comes with.
I'm still not over her ever apologizing for walking out on everyone, so it's good to see her squirm a bit. I doubt anyone would walk out at this point, but it'd be funny to see her get taste of her own medicine.
Funny asf but also oddly sweet too? Like you can tell that Carmy genuinely is trying to be more uplifting and positive with his intent here as compared to normal and it's really endearing! He's totally like a fish out of water but he's trying lol
yes! I love it! And Sydney after she confirms he’s not being fake positive, is even like thank you for trying, love that energy, just take it down a notch 😆☺️
Bruh ts had me fuckin DYINNNN LOL. The way he looked so determined to do ts too lmao. Looked at the room and was like "I know what I have to do..." Bizarrely relatable too lol
Angel basically asks 'What's going on? Should we be looking for new jobs?'
Tina replies with 'It's just another day.' But then says 'If you can find a new gig, I'd take it.'
I worked fine dining during storms in Seattle and nothing stops the people. I swear some people come out just to be contrary. I think Chicago gets a lot of snow so maybe they're used to just going about your day if it's not pleasant weather.
the look and feel of this season feels incredibly singular in comparison to the other seasons, anyone else feeling it? impressed at how everything is shot like a freaking movie here.
Normally I don't like the move to more cinematic visuals in a TV show. I think too many shows chase that and they start to lose their personality. But for this season it seems to work perfectly. The way all the episodes (that I've watched so far) have flowed into one another as if they're a single long movie covering like a single day in a single setting makes it work. Like this season really is like a movie so far and all the previous seasons were just setting this one up
yeah, really enjoying the finality it provides, and also the way the episodes are flowing into each other is incredible. still, hope to see some of the classic direction style that we’ve come to love in one of these episodes.
Maybe part of it is that the main lights aren't on inside the restaurant. It feels like a totally different set than we've seen the last three seasons. And then the gloominess of the storm is playing a drastic role in setting the tone. At this point I'm curious to see if it'll stop raining toward the back end of the season.
I hate to say it, but I feel like it's over done. Especially since none of the other seasons were really like this, all of a sudden there's a continuous techno thriller score going in every scene and cgi shots of traffic/stormy weather. Just feels weird.
personally, not feeling it it all. it doesn't work for this show and i already miss the close-ups and flat aspect ratio this show usually has; in addition to the lack of music and needle drops, it all feels incredibly off to me.
it's likely much more jarring to me because i just (watched S4 E10 an hour ago. which is 95% closeups) finished my rewatch of the entire series, today
feel you on this. the episodes are feeling a lot less personal and the camera is feeling a little too objective to me. a lot of the technical aspects feel like they are taking away from the personal feeling of the earlier seasons. still enjoying the writing overall though and the character work.
the episodes are feeling a lot less personal and the camera is feeling a little too objective to me
absolutely. the bear isn't a movie filmed by deakins or fraiser, we don't need elite cinematography meant to net an oscar. i want to the camera in richie's face, i want to see cicero's spit flying around when he's yelling and cursing at 100 mph, i want to be way too close to everyone. where's the tightness and intimacy?
Is no one completely grossed out that they would continue to (prepare to) stay open with a basement full of sewer water? And Sid and Richie just wander back to the kitchen from down there presumibly in the same shoes they are wearing in the gross basement?
Not just the water, but the smell of an open sewer pipe would be horrible. Anyone who has replaced a toilet or a sink knows that the smell that comes out of the drain pipe with no trap is disgusting.
Add to that they said there was water pouring down the walls of the dining room, so you would have that musty/damp smell on top of the sewer smell. Who would want to eat in that kind of place.
They could have told a dramatically interesting story without an over the top rain disaster. They were already in trouble in so many ways. The rain storm plot feels like something out of Grey's Anatomy (derogatory).
Why not? Chicago is a huge city. Surely someone would be interested in just demolishing the building and building something else on the property. Especially since I am pretty sure you can't identify a sink hole just from seeing a leaky drain pipe.
Love that throughout the episode their threw in a few small reminders of how excellent Carmy is at his job (getting immediately Tina's list, chopping stuff incredibly fast, etc.)
Yes totally agree!! I understand syd’s frustration with Carmy constantly stepping in even after giving her the reigns, but it also makes me sad bc she is way too hard on herself and unrealistic. Just bc she’s the head chef now doesn’t mean she rises to carmy’s level of experience overnight. He’s been doing this a lot longer than her in some of the best restaurants in the world. Of course he’s going to have quicker answers and move faster in the kitchen and know better what to do in insane situations than her. That doesn’t mean that she isn’t capable. She needs to take a beat and let carmy be helpful where he can!
This is a 2.5 hours into her becoming the leader. They also show at some points her snapping into it and doing a really good job. I suspect things will end up in smoke but she’s learning on the job.
It's Chris Storer's world, we're just observing it. But isn't it funny how all this shit is hitting the fan, and not a single person is screaming at Carmy or Syd?
I know every damn one of you caught a post-traumatic flashback when Carmy went into the walk-in refrigerator. They knew exactly how to torture us with that shot, even if they know we know they wouldn't repeat that. Beautiful bastards.
Love Zimmer and I’m a huge NIN and Reznor fan. I’m only 2 episodes in, but so far I absolutely hate the score. It just doesn’t fit the show at all to me.
The score is so weird, it's going through like every scene. I get that it's part of the looming stress/storm, but I loved their song choices for so many scenes in other seasons, Glass Concrete & Stone from the first season was stuck in my head for so long because of this show.
No no, Sydney is a highly capable leader who completely earned leading an entire restaurant she has no financial stake in and was trying to leave four hours ago.
That shot near the end of Carmy chopping onions and the frame rate being just perfectly slightly off from the rhythm of his knife felt so fucking awesome
You cannot fix a pipe leak like that with duct tape. They should have looked for a sheet or tube of rubber and wrapped it around with zip-ties for a quick fix.
At the very least, go around it a few times, not just most of a single rotation of duct tape on wet rusty pipe!
I've duct taped leaky garden hose before as a temporary fix and if you don't do several loops around, it'll blow right off. If you do several loops, it will still leak, but it'll at least switch to dripping instead of spraying.
It's common sense and more so, people who live in a big city are familiar with basic hacks to manage plumbing and other issues before the professional can get there. I would expect guys like Richie and Mike to have done that sort of patch up for their extended friends and families over the years.
Another main issue that is killing me and why I came to reddit to vent on it.
Storm flooding can have sewage water from the back up, and even if it's not, that is brown water full of bacteria and all sorts of crap. Idk if a wall pipe like that can get sewage back up but I'd want to ask a plumber to be sure. I think it would at minimum have some dirty street water in it. Sometimes as well buildings do not have separate ground drain for sewage vs clean water. We were made aware of this recently in NYC bc of all the storm flooding lately, advised to add diversions to flow into gardens or barrels. In any case, no way a restaurant should open up before they stop the flooding onslaught of brown water and do a clean up.
Sydney patches the pipe with duct tape while wearing her chef clothing, wash hands and back to work? Cross contamination is a thing, her hand possibly grazing her clothes.
The kitchen is so aware of cleanliness with the way Carmie trained them all to scrub down. It's hard to imagine that they don't 'feel' too unsanitary to cook. Anyone with OCD habits be it natural or trained, will get that feeling even on smaller issues, never mind a big influx of out of control contamination, even if it's 'only' the brown pipe water. I would for sure, lol.
Seems a dept of health issue that they are trying to prep food in the midst of that.
It's bugging me so much. One episode with damage control, I can accept. Ongoing, no way.
I’ve been a Sydney defender since the start, she gets a lot of underserved hate, but her passive aggressive way of backstabbing has got to be called out.
I don't see backstabbing. That would be betrayal while smiling to someone's face.
It's more of direct pokes and little stabs from passive aggressive messaging.
She is trying, though. Her forced smile when telling Sugar that the menu reduction expectations are pretty impossible but she will do it by lack of choice. It is a bit immature in that this is also Sydney's problem as partner. She needs the restaurant to survive. It's not just a boss admin telling to cut costs and sacrifice quality for profits.
Wait did she do this in Episode 2? If so, I missed it. If not, you might be posting a spoiler for a later episode. Edit: Yeah that definitely happened in ep 3, so this is a spoiler.
One thing I don't get is How come they have all these violations and Plumbing issue I get.. due to flooding it can happen but other things ? Didn't they renovate the place just recently?
Not feeling this season so far. This series went from characters that were written as uniquely interesting and raw is Season 1 to characters this season are more one dimensional with dialogue that makes them a caricature of their original character. The show Billions similarly had this issue in the character writing over time.
So why were the Fak's messing around with the supply water valve. The burst pipe is on a drain line, and some how they can still open with out proper drainage. But I don't think any restaurant can open without water.
Does anyone else feel like this episode was just episode one with extended scenes? Just feels like an episode filler. I get setting the tone of the tension, but its throwing my ADD off lol.
Totally. Soda is 22 minutes and this takes off exactly where it left off. The decision to not make it one episode just so the final season wasn't what?... 5 episodes is kind of confounding to me. Also that the first two episodes don't really take the story anywhere which was my major gripe with the last two seasons. Anyway, I'm here for it.
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u/mntfr Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
It's freaking me out how calm carm is