Richie appreciation thread?

I didn't enjoy the last season as much. I felt some of the dialogue scenes were way too slow in terms of tempo. People don't argue as punctuated as they do.

The close up camera work was possibly overdone this season too.

Still really enjoyed it though.

I think they wasted a lot of time, an example being episode 1&2 with the corny watching TV at home at the start meaning both episodes like 5 mins in.

It absolutely nailed what the bear was great about so often though, the whole wedding episode, heart-attack part, carmy & claire speaking on the steps, the final episode, the talk with his mum. It is so well acted they don’t need to say much without you knowing everything that is going on.

There is also moments where you see Carmy reacting to Syd’s growth as a chef, like her cooking the pasta in 2.30 or teaching the other staff and then realising his place in the dynamic with just a look. Just great television.

I heard an interesting point that the writers/editors/fx approached it in more of the binge model and that it works better if you view episodes in a bunch (like 3 eps at a time) as opposed individual watches.

Back to its intense best.

I thought it was a lot better than S3, although probably not quite back to it's best. I think the quality of the writing suffers a little in parts and the pacing isn't as good as it could be, although it's tough to say if it's just less interesting to watch people actually healing from their trauma and learning to communicate slightly better.

End of the day the cast is great and they've established a lot of really interesting characters that you want to root for, so it's very easy to look past certain issues and enjoy it for what it is.

Tough to know as well with writes strikes and scheduling as the gang are so famous now, how difficult the producing of the shots are

I also liked S3 more than most but agree that it had a bunch of really weak episodes like to John Cena one or Giving birth episode.

Alternatively I thought the finale was great of s3 and the Tina bottle episode was one of the best bear episodes

comment by Edinspur (U1109)
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I also liked S3 more than most but agree that it had a bunch of really weak episodes like to John Cena one or Giving birth episode.

Alternatively I thought the finale was great of s3 and the Tina bottle episode was one of the best bear episodes
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It wasn't awful or anything, but it defo felt stretched. I think watching it in a one a week format would have been frustrating.

Defo frustrating, but I’ve seen a few critics suggest this is how streaming platforms will approach releases going forward. Andor being an example of a show that is to be watched in bunches of 3 and I would say so was this show (1-3,4-6,7,8-9).

There is no end of show cliffhanger they all flow into one - which maybe we have to accept and change how we view shows based on if they are released in bunches/ all in one

It defo feels like a better middle ground in terms of platforms being able to stagger releases but still providing content that's entertaining.

I think they probably should have released their content in bundles like Andor did.

Anyway interested to see the direction S5, I’m guessing carmy wont be the main anymore but might see him trying to find himself while working at the other ‘the beef’ stand or whatever

Yeah will be interesting. I wasn't hugely surprised at how S4 ended, but I did think that maybe he was getting his spark back from those around him inspiring him - like that moment you mentioned about Syd nailing the food in 2mins29.

finding s2 pretty boring but s1 was great and set it up well, hoping it gets better

wtf

Someone at work said s2 was weakest of seasons so each to their own I guess. Only seen 3 or 4 eps though