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Folks didn’t abandon The Bear in droves after season 3 - there was some loss but for the most part, people were still very engaged on here. The meta convos were 🔥🔥🔥

Folks didn’t abandon The Bear in droves after season 3 - there was some loss but for the most part, people were still very engaged on here. The meta convos were 🔥🔥🔥

I see you with the olive oil.

og tweet | part one | part two | part three

Circles are a major factor in season three of The Bear. In my meta, “Carmy: Regression,” I discuss the possibility of the intent behind making characters go through the same arcs as before. I came to the conclusion that the purpose of this was about life going through full circle and season four could break the cycle.

The circle of life is represented as a circle because it’s a constant loop of birth, survival, and death. But it’s also deeply important to understand that it also states that some circumstances will be much smaller or larger than others.

As apart of their loop, Sydney ended up meeting an award-winning chef of fine dining all over again. Richie and Carmy are back at each others throats with Marcus and Sydney between them.

Carmy going through this dream-like state is apart of his journey. Sydney struggling with leaving The Beef/The Bear is apart of her journey. I suppose in a sense, it doesn’t really matter about how much repetition a person goes through. As long as they finally understand in the end and break their cycle, just the simple fact that you got there is what’s important.

Massive shoutout to @whenmemorydies for linking this video!

It’s probably also vital to note what that meant for television. If all of this is intentional, they would have to know what that meant for themselves. People would be saying they lost the magic and have a massive blow during award season.

The Lion King is a coming of an age film about a young lion named Simba who flees when his father is murdered. In my massive post about what their characters theme song was, Matty mentioned Hakuna Matata which means no worries in Swahili.

@outmakingmoonshine has already discussed the possibility that the Faks are the inner voice/imaginary friends for the protagonist (Carmy).

In the context of the film, Timon and Pumbaa could be represented with the Faks while Simba was Carmy.

Especially when in the film, Simba was essentially ‘running away from the responsibility of the accident’ which he believed he caused but in actuality didn’t. It’s worth noting that I don’t believe this is an exact and accurate depiction of the characters. Although, I do think that this is somewhat apart of Carmy’s dream-like state while going through his avoidance.

Carmy definitely needs to put the past behind him but only after he’s confronted it. Within the film, Timon and Pumbaa probably weren’t the best influences for Simba but that was all he had. Sometimes avoidance is a way to survive in fear that the reality of it all will cripple you.

In the season three finale, Carmy finally confronted his boss, the man who contributed to his panic attacks, nightmares, and ulcers. Carmy’s urge to ensure that David understood what negative influences he caused was for naught because of David’s inability to see nothing but the ‘excellent’ chef he created from it all. Even though this was brutal, it might have been necessary for Carmy to understand what he needs to do to let go of the trauma.

While the conversation between them didn’t end well, the conversation between Chef Terry and him did. And I wonder if Terry managed to really get through to him because he managed to confront one of his main issues in the kitchen.

It’s so interesting that after his confrontation with Chef David and his refusal to see the issues with what Carmy said, Chef Terry’s advice right after was that not knowing what she’s doing is what makes them invincible.

Venn diagrams are overlapping circles to illustrate relationships between two or more sets. They typically highlight the differences and similarities between one and another. What was so fun about researching this topic was figuring out that Venn diagrams could also used as tools for navigating life.

“It’s like making a Venn diagram, but out of a thousand circles. That’s why those moments when you get something, or you get it right, it does feel so special — because it’s like, that’s insane. That’s insane that there’s a thousand circles but found the one overlapping point.” Ayo Edebiri in IndieWire’s Ayo Edebiri Says Directing ‘The Bear’ Was Like ‘Making a Venn Diagram Out of a Thousand Circles

All of The Bear characters are like these circles within circles that intersect endlessly, showcasing how they’re all connected and bonded forever. And in those circles are the challenges that we have to face whether they failed and succeeded.

Hardships are what makes our successes more special and valuable. Typically the gradual change in life or back and forth isn’t necessarily suited for television. But they definitely had a vision for where these characters will go. If season four is its last, it will be a very beautiful and realistic depiction of the less stagnant version of the characters we love, acknowledging we wouldn’t have gotten there without the isolated emotional turmoil in season three.

Before, I recommended that season three might have been an unconscious defense mechanism because of Carmy’s regression that manifests as a way to communicate distress.

I’d argue that Carmy felt a bit immature this season. I’d even go as far as to say, with Carmy as the catalyst, the rest of the characters had also went through some form of a stagnant state as well.

This season had been assumed to be the blue period before it aired and we truly got it. We just didn’t anticipate it being throughout all the episodes. In the season finales, we end off on some form of a positive note with some characters. But I think it’s been since season one, that they all truly felt united. And it will be a great full circle moment if we get that in season four. (After seeing the s4 trailer, we might actually see it!)

@thoughtfulchaos773, you mentioned to me once this is all a flat circle on my meta and how Carl Jung might have been the inspiration for the writers pertaining the negative aspect of the Anima in the male psyche. You couldn’t have been more right! I don’t think it’s a coincidence his name popped up while researching about regression.

An aspect of the life we live, is the surprises and spontaneous moments we experience along the way. And I believe Carmy hasn’t understood that because of his toxic learning and traumatic experience with Chef David. Not to mention his strained relationships with some of his family. Carmy finally experiencing amusement and enjoyment all while being embraced by his family will be really beautiful character development to watch for the closing of this series. And with that love, it will transcend to the food.

“People don’t remember the food. It’s the people that we remember.”

“… regression is not necessarily a retrograde step in the sense of a backwards development or degeneration, but rather represents a necessary phase of development.”

The circle of life is us. It’s an ideology that we’re all connected and every living thing—plants, animals, and humans exist as part of a fragile and delicate balance.

Before then, it was all average love triangle nonsense that could be explained away with strong conviction and plausible deniability. However it all went out of the window by the end of ep8 lolfkfkdkdkkdkd. Cause apart from the fact that Carmen is making Ragu for Claire and we see flashes of Sydney all alone, the episode ends with Carmen and Claire gearing up to fuck and Sydney taking her shirt off. And then when we come back to ep9- Carmen and Claire did their ting, and it ends with Sydney putting clothes on. I remember being on the couch with my friends one snowy evening watching this all unfold, and we paused for a moment to all just stare at each other and laugh. Only for us to be slapped across the face by the panic attack scene mere minutes later odjdndjdkdkjdndndjdd- and my friend who doesn’t even really ship them like that was like “oh shit they are actually going there”.

Have I told you all that I love Venn Diagrams, motifs, and tropes?

Anyway, here are my monosyllabic, anxiety inducing beloved shows about grief.