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It's international Women's Day : 25000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza.

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sydcarmy never loses.

season 3 is going to destroy me

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jeremy allen white and rosalia is taylor swift and travis kelce for intellectuals

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me being in my twenties

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they need to KISS

i miss them so bad 😭😭😭😭😭😭

THE BEAR (2022-present) 2.08 | "Bolognese"

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Season 2's Biggest Flaw

I think we've found out through season two of The Bear that the show needs a longer run time per episode. The most consistent flaw I found was the lack of storytelling and avenues that felt like they should've been crossed. Ex: Ebraheim's internal conflict, Richie's character shift, Tina and culinary school, Claire's characterization, and much more. I feel like the run time worked well in season 1 when the show was practically a bottle episode, of course with the exceptions of carm and syd, but as the writer's want to explore more of the supporting character's lives, it would be much more well-rounded story-telling if the episode's were longer.

In short, the show needs more time within itself to breathe because of all its substance,

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uh oh ethel is lurking in my state

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We need more SydCarmy au's plsplspls

I wanna see them horny for each other in other dimensions!

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Carmy + encouraging his team

THE BEAR season 2

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one of the funniest scenes

Finally updated the letterboard after 2 years lmao, then ran out if U's 😮‍💨

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FUCK

Fork Theory

This is the second part of the Spoon-Fork-Knife Theory  that I believe makes up the main themes of the whole series and each season. Make sure to read the Spoon Theory before this and then read The Knife Theory. Mikey’s fork used to represent a moment of extreme stress is really what sold me on the SFK theory being a core part of the show, because it is so not subtle once you realize what they symbolize.

Richie was reaching his limit with too many forks. He had lost his best friend, his wife left him, he had no purpose or ambition. He was constantly being pushed aside and given tasks that were small and inconsequential enough because everyone expects him to mess up.

Richie became a “fork” to other people, especially Carmy and Sydney, when he was constantly stressing them out and getting in the way of their progress. He was scared of change and annoyed by them because they were so driven and had a clear purpose when he did not.

He was reaching his fork limit and felt like he was being left behind with all the changes happening to the restaurant. Every time he tried to help he just messed things up. He asked Carmy about what his purpose was and told him the story of the guy who had no skills and just watched trains all day, and eventually all his friends moved on without him. It wasn’t until he embraced the literal forks he was given to clean, that he found a way to his purpose.

Carmy and his entire family have far too many forks. Donna has her drinking issues and mental illness. Mikey had his issues. The whole absent father of it all. Mikey stayed behind and lived with Donna in attempts to care for her, but it wore him down so much that he gave up on trying to fix up The Beef and he gave up on himself. Natalie and Carmy felt as though they have to be the ones fix them. Natalie stayed behind to try and care for Donna even when she refused her help, while Carmy left home to try and be good enough for Mikey to let him help The Beef. Carmy tries to cover up the forks and ignore them, he ignored the obvious signs that something was really wrong with Mikey. He ignored confronting his mother in order to avoid creating further tension and escalating things into bigger “forks”. Meanwhile Natalie tries to address them directly.

Donna hit her fork limit when Natalie asked her at the table if she was okay because she can not handle acknowledging she is not okay.

Mikey hit his fork limit when Lee made a dig at Donna’s outburst, because Mikey knows better than anyone what it is actually like to be with her and to constantly have to handle every “fork” that Donna throws his way. And in a way, Carmy hit his fork limit and had to leave them after this.

Carmy had been avoided dealing with his “forks” for a long time. The biggest “fork” still yet to be addressed is that he apparently has yet to even see his mother since returning to Chicago. So by opening night all the metaphorical and even physical forks came flooding in at once, from the broken fridge handle, the shelves in the wrong place, the lack of real forks, the broken toilet, his situation with Claire, even Donna showing up, it all came crashing at once.

Donna tried to remove her “forks” by leaving the party and crashing her car to get everyone to stop and finally pay attention to her, because she feels so overlooked for all her efforts that she put into the dinner. After the incident happened, Carmy went even further away from his family, because removing himself is the only way he knows how to cope with “forks”.

When the to-go disaster happens he becomes a “fork” and makes the situation worse for everyone by freaking out, so Sydney and Marcus also had to remove themselves from the “fork”. When Sydney quit his first instinct to get rid of the most obvious “fork” by breaking the ticket machine instead of actually fixing anything. Then he almost let the building burn down because he just wanted it all to stop and did not have the “spoons” to cope with any more “forks” by himself now that Sydney wasn’t even there.

Carmy already knew since the start of the day he was not okay with Claire. Instead of addressing the “fork” he had with her before she came to the restaurant, when he knew he had to be focused on Sydney, he ignored it and let the “fork” get to him which got him locked in the walk in. He even acknowledge that he “did this to himself”, because he knows he was avoiding all his “forks”.

Carmy does have the "spoons" to do what he needs to do and work well, he is capable of being a good chef and a good person and being emotionally in tune, but he can't access his "spoons" half the time because he is still riddled with the trauma of all his forks that he pretends he doesn't have.

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THE EYE CONTACT

STOPPED IN HIS TRACKS: CARMY X SYD

They didn't expect to see each other. But when Carmy sees her...

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sydcarmy is my roman empire.

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Such a great catch

Carmen's Hungry Eyes

Going to take this post a step further and point out that the The Hungry Eyes cookbook is a deliberate reference to the song Hungry Eyes by Eric Carmen (Yes, Carmen. Can't get more on the nose than that). That song was featured in Dirty Dancing, and we already know how Storer outright said John Hughes movies were specifically inspiring him in Season 2, so it's not a stretch to say this iconic 80s movie also played a role.

Here is a clip of the scene, also take note of what they're doing with their hands on their chest at the start. Looks kinda familiar right?

If you look up what the song means, it can not get any more literal. I mean they literally call themselves partners.

They left Season 1 with him looking at her like she is a literal piece of cake and that man is starved.

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