The Bear Season 3 = Underwhelming

Felt extremely underwhelming to me. I binged all the seasons, and shorty before Richie and Carmy's fight, I realized they were doomed not to get along because of the shows need for drama and rivalry. Once you go down this road, you realize there'll always be something or a problem at the restaurant regardless of how good the food is or how well they're doing because it can't last. The food may be the only real consistency at this point. The show becomes played out, leading me to my point about season 3. There were no big twists. I found everything to be extremely obvious. All the major cliffhangers for the next season get laid out about half way through the show and you know a simple conversation or confrontation could solve it or break the ice but no they'll make you wait a year, that's just TV. And the cliffhangers always get glossed over like no big deal. That's just most cliffhangers today. They get treated like a mid episode disturbance, a comma, or they just become the norm. And throughout the show there are lots of minor cliffhangers that just get glossed over by switching it to another characters POV next episode, pushing the solution and or the confrontation to next season or just a randomly placed flashback episode. I was surprised they didn't do one for season 3 episode 8 or 9. They really had me for a second with the Magician intro, hit the old "here we go again." Some of the mid episode flashbacks this season were very random and a bit challenging to decifer past from present. There's no shock factor and knowing you're gonna have to wait a year to see what happens next, I don't really care. It's an okay show at times. If it got canceled, I'd get over it.

Not a lot of shows can do a good cliffhanger anymore, and I think that's a part of what makes a great show great. Season 3 of The Bear to me just was. I'll watch season 4 next year if I do