I didn’t get the romantic vibe from Luca and Sydney, or at least I don’t think she was reciprocating. It seemed he was interested in her and wanted to talk about trauma and all the hard times in his life, and she was like “yeah nah my childhood was great”, lightly brushing him off. Richie and Jessica is a different…

I felt like I knew these people were famous and important chefs, and while I don’t really give a shit about the amazing real-life chefs and their backstories here, I appreciate the show committing so hard to the people that make the restaurant industry what it is. I mean, I want more meaningful dialogue and scenes…

Yeah sure, you’re not projecting at all.

Yeah the Fak stuff can be grating the longer it goes on, but I got my biggest laugh of the season with these two idiots in the car convincing themselves they’re good people and will go to heaven: “Wait what religion are we?”

I got a Community notification for this?

I guess they mean it’s about how Carmy is dealing with his dead brother, and a surrogate in Richie. But there’s a LOT more going on than that.

Thank god Ebraheim’s window is going well for the restaurant now that Chi-Chi and Chuckie are helping him out. Heart-warming moments can be few and far between on this show, but that moment was absolutely great. And looked fucking delicious. I wouldn’t necessarily want any of the froo-froo $175 dollar plates that…

That one where he just passed by him with a casual “fuck you” was brutal

Dang Iunno if I can see late-stage, still-very-handsome, silver-fox-Joel as anything but Carmy’s horrifically abusive boss on The Bear now.

It’s an advert for his new movie. He’s not nearly that haughty or moronic.

Right, it’s more for his grounded, self-deprecating style of manliness, for being literally the best player at his position (ever), and for worshipping the ground she walks on.

Good god did this episode need the small amounts of humor and levity it brought, because this was an absolute slog to watch. Fak pouring the soup (and looking so proud of himself when he did so!) and then bringing it back to the kitchen was amazing, as was Uncle’s comment about Dystopian Butter (new band name, I…

To be fair there were a whole lot of FUCK YOUs to go around this episode, must have been fun to write. 

He also for some reason thinks he’s Sydney’s boss, when he’s supposed to be her partner. He didn’t tell her about the non-negotiables at all, or with the rest of his staff. No wonder she hasn’t signed the DocuSign yet.

“Here is a guy utterly transformed from the one who gifted her a custom set of chef’s whites only days before and told her it was a trap to focus on chasing after a Michelin star.”

Carmy really needs to draw from her lessons more than chef McHale.

I wasn’t a fan of the stream-of-consciousness memory lane format of this episode, either. When I found out where it was going, my reaction was closer to “oh the whole episode is gonna be like this, huh”.

Lots of shippers have a very difficult time seeing two attractive people performing very detailed work together and not wanting them to bang. I blame Tumblr.

“You have autonomy as a viewer” says Edebiri, severely underestimating the self-control of the viewers of her show. That, and combined with the fact that the show is so good, makes me want to treat it like candy during the movie and finish it during the previews.