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When carmy plagiarized claire's "because you're the bear" I wanted to reach into my TV and smack him so hard because what in the ever living fck??? It's the sheer audacity that's so mind boggling.

Months and months of barely communicating with his partner, making her feel less than, refusing to collaborate, refusing to budge on choices that were single handedly driving the restaurant into the ground and then THIS. He wants to retire??? In the words of wise man richie "You're retiring? You're 12." He can miss me with that BS. The compliments he threw at syd in that scene felt almost weaponized. Like he just gets to dump this on her and slowly frolic away to God knows where.

Idc what anyone thinks, that was extremely inconsiderate of him. Especially considering the promises he made to syd in season 2, he's definitely leaving her high and dry. This is just not how I expected their story to unfold. Their relationship is the heart of the show and splitting them up feels borderline illegal. Idk if I'm tripping balls but that's just how I feel.

"I wouldn't even want to do this without you, you make me better at this, you're not alone syd, I left you alone it's never going to happen again"

ALL MEN DO IS LIEEEE

Carmy all of a sudden having an epiphany about how he hates cooking and is miserable in his profession was a hot pile of garbage. Building him up this much only to go ahead and pull whatever the fck that was in the season finale is outrageous really.

Now he's completely blindsided syd and she's utterly heart broken. The anger, hurt and disbelief in her voice during their alleyway scene was so palpable. I really believe she would have broken down into sobs if richie hadn't interrupted them.

Getting done that dirty by someone you have so much respect for must hurt like hell.

Atp idek what this show is anymore. Also fck Claire, we don't like her, stop force feeding her one-dimensional self to us. I'm so tired.

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Sydney has been wavering in regards to her commitment to the bear and rightfully so. We've all seen how Carmy continues to disregard her despite him claiming her his partner. He shut down her ideas, he clearly thought himself superior to her skill wise and he was almost always making decisions without her. I mean that fucker has gone full dictator this season and Sydney is just putting up with all of it. She continuously takes the blows and I just keep asking myself why. Why does she continue to stay there, why doesn't she leave him, why is she putting herself through that.

Is it her initial respect and admiration for his skills that keeps her there, is it the blood sweat and tears she put into opening up the restaurant, is it her growing history with him and his family??? What is it about that man that has her so choked up that the mere thought of walking away is so difficult.

In search for answers, I found myself drifting back to the infamous table scene. That was the first time those two core characters were ever truly vulnerable with each other. During the scene, Carmy confesses he wouldn't even want to do it without her. I definitely think Sydney is clinging onto to the promises that transpired under the table that day. She's thinking surely the boy who gifted me this incredibly thoughtful custom chefs coat and told me I wasn't alone isn't irredeemable. She's grown to care for him in her own way so even when he fcks up or acts shitty she sticks by him cause she believes she knows his heart.

Carmy might not notice he's slowly loosing her but he is. He's too far in his head and because of that he fails to see how he's destroying her spirit little by little. Soon she'll be but a hollow shell of anxiety and insecurities, just like him.

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*SEASON 3 SPOILERS*

Wow, where to begin...that was a fcking shitshow (harsh but I felt very depressed after hitting pause on episode 10 so catch it Chris Storer!!)

There were numerous things wrong with the latest season of the bear but please allow me to address my biggest gripes:

1. The fcking Faks??? (Irrelevant, annoying, unfunny, felt like bashing my head in repeatedly eveytime I was subjected to endure the the idiotic ramblings of Tony and Neil Fak. Get them off my screen please and thank you.)

2. Claire fcking bear (They really doubled down on her boring ass. The never ending flashbacks that we're supposedly highlighting her time spent with carmy. She was sweet, grounding yada yada yada. I'd rather watch paint dry, NEXT!)

3. Unresolved arguments (Carmy and Richie we're at odds throughout the entire season. Their relationship was stunted and honestly, pretty much nonexistent. Seeing them being distant really sucked the life outta me.)

4. Princess Sydney was sidelined??? (Sydney really was my silver lining this season. The scenes she shared with her dad were some of the very few where I genuinely smiled and felt fragments of what I hoped this season would be. That being said, I was very disappointed that we barely got to see her after episode 4, or at least thats how I felt. Her arc this season wasn't fully fleshed out and I feel like excluding her inevitable confrontation with Carmy was a poor choice. Like why did I see more of the Faks than I did Sydney, I'm tired.)

4. Carmy regressing to the depths of hell. (I'm always trying to give Carmy grace but idk, I was kinda done with him by the end. He calls syd his partner but then proceeds to treats her otherwise, he can't communicate for shit, he's borderline disrespectful to the people closest to him, I mean the list goes on. He's very much in his head this season, isolating himself from everyone. All his relationships are strained, he's putting a shit ton of pressure on himself and he's not open to collaboration. I'd say he was very dictator-like with the way he was running things. Syd was always the one dialing things back down in that kitchen, making sure Tina was okay, *dies a little* I love them. Bottom line, I didn't fck with him.

The show felt entirely different most of the time and I kept trying to pinpoint why I was so mad at how they handled things. Came to the conclusion that it just felt less warm. They were very few meaningful character interactions and dialogue between our main players (Carmy, Syd, Richie, Nat, Marcus and Tina.) They kinda felt estranged at times and I didn't like that at all. Also not building on the existing relationships even further felt like wasted potential. All these characters we've grown to love and respect kinda felt stuck.

I'm not sure if this was what Chris and Joanna intended to do but I'll just go ahead and say this season was pretty fcking depressing.

PS: Ice chips was my favourite episode. I absolutely loved everything about it. (Proud to say that I claimed it beforehand)