#carmy is an obvious mr scrooge

[augustmonsooning]

Sliding Walk-in Doors

I'm not sure this will actually happen given the trailers we've seen etc but I would love to see the show lean into playing with dreams and memory more.

Carmy in the walk in is really in a lot of ways rock bottom for him. In one moment all the consequences of all his avoidant choices come crashing down. It's a moment of reckoning for the character (much like finding it was his cigarettes he had left by the stovetop in S1), he can carry othink The Bear is at heart a sentimental show, which couches its quite blatant love for trope in v skilful dialogue writing and subtle acting, I think we will definitely have a scene in which the whole extended Bear Crew come back to Carmy's apartment and have the updated Berzatto spaghetti. We'll definitely get a shot of that hallway corridor, maybe with some photos up on the wall, and each of crew filing in one by onen doing what he has always done (like in S1, I'm not sure we really saw Carmy learn from that cigarette incident in any way), or he can reject his past habits and move forward.

Visually, the light from the saw cutting the walk in door open is a great cipher for the 'light at the end of the tunnel' sometimes used in visual media portray near death experiences which inspire characters to think of the different paths they have open to them.

I would love to see at least some episodes play with that and show the possibilities that Carmy is faced with and their consequences, Groundhog Day or Russian Doll style when he leaves the walk in.

It's also a point of reckoning for Syd: the culmination of all those people asking her constantly whether she thinks her partner can be trusted.

What would be DOUBLY cool would be showing an episode (or two) from Carmy's point of view - and the choices open to him, and then an episode (or two) from Syd's and then having the rest of the season show what "really happens". It would be a realy visually neat way of exploring the character's priorities whilst getting to have more visual symmetry which the show is aldeady interested in