#direct-to-hulu

[musings-from-an-elder-goth]

And thus was born Universal Studio's latest entry in their Dark Universe franchise, the direct-to-Hulu "Grammar Nazis vs Vampires," starring Nicholas Cage as the leader of the vampire coven, Lindsay Lohan as the principal of the grammar-nazi teacher's union, and Andy Serkis in his Golden Globe nominated motion capture performance as The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage.

creaturesfromelsewhere 7-11-2023

[local-space-gay]

Quick reminder everyone:

If you don’t like a show and don’t want to see it get a dozen more seasons, DONT WATCH IT

IT DOESNT MATTER IF YOURE HATE-WATCHING IT. STREAMING SERVICES DO NOT SEE THE DIFFERENCE. Just let the show die by ignoring it and not engaging with it.

This has been a psa.

[poppytuft]

the bear s3 spoilers

below the cut! thinking about claire and stuff we saw this season re: carmy/syd/the restaurant/donna, just finished the season so itll be a mess and also im comin in way too hot on this so my bad

sometimes...... sometimes i believe you guys are all watching different tv. im not sure how this season didnt feel like a direct through line from s2?? and im not sure WHY everyone is SO MAD about claire LITERALLY "haunting" this season. girl. come on. we need to have a sit down talk about how the berzatto generational trauma is the real meat of this show (this will make sense, just trust me). thats the MAIN EMOTIONAL POINT. syd's relationship with her dad, marcus and his mom, richie and evie, even tina and louie are all examples of parental relationships that are tender, sweet, supportive, etc. these are INTENTIONAL!! by creating these relationships we see PLAINLY how fucked donna is and how much she fucked up all of these kids. thats why "ice chips" was such a FANTASTIC episode. there was SO MUCH unpacked, so much revealed, so much worked through with sugar and her but at the end of the day she's still learning how to unlearn all of this horrific narcissistic bullshit. SHES STILL UNLEARNING THOUGH. thats where fucking DONNA of all people sits right now——somehow, she's learning how to heal. EVERYONE IS LEARNING. that's also what is so important about that episode.

now lets look at carmy. in "ice chips" we are LITERALLY told about how each berzatto is born: mikey fighting against the idea of being alive at all, nat into a quiet, soothing room, and CARMY is fucking born into EVERYONE SCREAMING and ARGUING and FIGHTING. we are BLATANTLY told that all carmy has ever known is HELL and all he's ever known how to communicate is through exploding. this is so violently against what we also know about his personality from childhood in "fishes" (anxious growing up, arts-oriented, had a hard time making friends). now, he works a violently stressful job, processing the trauma from both his mother (and chef fields [joel mchale], realistically) through the high-stress environment.

NOW. ENTER CLAIRE.

HOW is she not fascinating to you all. we don't see her whole story (because the bear, duh) but we are given just enough pieces here to put together that her story runs parallel to carmy's. how are you not getting this. walk with me.

claire. glasses, nerdy, quiet, sweet, girl next door. family friend! cute, but considered mid for a long time by everyone at school, but suddenly the berzatto men all badger carm, "oh she got a glow up, oh shes looking for you, she wants to see you," etc etc etc. what happened in between?

she finds herself. she finds the stressful thing she LOVES, which is the hospital. her job is objectively more stressful than carmy's (illustrated by that scene earlier in the season but i forgot the episode, where claire talks about the girl who got her shit wrecked by the glass table), and while we don't have an exact understanding of what her home life was like, we understand that her and carmy both have a level of internal anxiety that thrives on the stress of their careers. HOWEVER, claire does it because she loves it. carmy just doesn't know how to stop.

this is what makes claire feel like "peace" to carmy——because her high-stress job is a choice, an active choice she is making because it fulfills her. it's not to prove her dead brother wrong, or to honor his own legacy, or to prove that dickbag boss wrong, or to leave a mark on the world, or to make her own life worthwhile, or to prove that she doesn't need anyone else. she genuinely enjoys helping people even when the days are stressful, or scary. he's obsessed with this. he wants to know how she does this. every day she leaves that stress at home——and he wants to learn how to do that too.

claire is VITAL to this season and to understanding carmy's stress——and how far back he is in his healing process. it should only become more and more apparent, as we see characters like tina (the beef/the bear became vital to her success/development as a chef AND person, both for the people AND her love of food), marcus (not hiding his grief, but using it to help rationalize how much his mother loved him and wanted to be surrounded by people that love him), and richie (finding a purpose through service/expo and understanding he can start over again) push through their own traumas and struggles to become better people. if donna can be not only present at sugar's bedside during labor, but WELCOMED at this point in the show, it makes carmy's inability to heal all the more present. claire is an important part of this puzzle: she helps us see a window into a world where carmy is balanced emotionally, but unbalanced professionally, because he has no idea how to make the two coexist.

however, the idea that he can be balanced emotionally at all is so fucking enticing——with the help of someone who experiences stress in the same way as him (and who is familiar with his familial trauma), he has the opportunity to grow up and move on from his family trauma and wounds perpetuated by the industry he works in.

on the flip side of this....... his inability to process any of this is starting to impact syd. and frankly, that's some bullshit. his lack of communication, inability to community build/trust ANYONE, and his violent stubbornness is pushing her into the same space that he was in under chef fields, in a much slower, more subtle manner, and for slightly different reasons. her panic attack at the end of the season could read in two directions to me: her stress over the responsibility of changing so many people's lives has boiled over once she remembered that the beef once was truly great (hey five star review on the fridge!), OR, she realizes how much she isn't in it for the food. fuck a Michelin star: she wants to cook with her family. chef terry says at the end of "forever", in the garage with carmy, that she's so grateful she got to do whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted, where she wanted, with the people she wanted to do it with. sydney is so close to having those things at the bear——but carmy's dysfunction is keeping it just out of arms reach. the two of them are now on opposite sides of the approach from last season: syd dying for a star, and carmy dying to cook for the woman he loved. now, carmy is hungy for recognition again, desperate to prove something, and sydney is remembering (thanks to the conversation with other chefs during the ever funeral service) why she loved cooking in the first place. so this leaves us to wonder: should she stick it out? for the people? or make something of herself? is she carmy, or is she terry? i guess we will just have to see.

all this to say: every character is connected. the bear is a show about family, found and blood, and the choices we make for, with, and because of the people we love, for better or for worse. food is only the center of it, because it's the center of all of our lives. you can't hate claire without understanding where she sits in the web of the berzatto family. and really, you can't hate her if you understand what her presence means for carmy, for syd, and the restaurant as a whole.

[jenniesban]

never beating the bff allegations.

[biophonies]

was sooo dope to see my storyboards translated into live action in ep 5 of THE BEAR! this season was so good ;_;

I honestly don't watch a lot of the shows I've boarded, but it was an honor to touch on such a special show <3

full pdf & some other things I did for them that didn't make it to air is on my patreon for the curious!

(see more things from me via my newsletter, patreon, insta & twitter)

[dadaonice]

The Bear kitchen, season 1, 2022.

[sayheynay]

hulu is down and I'm sad about one direction so my brain said "Tumblr??"

[g0tmilkx3]

I’d like to go on record and say the bear is still easily clearing most tv shows out today however when you set a standard you’re going to be held to that standard

[thenerdsofcolor]

Ayo Edebiri, Liza Colón-Zayas, and Lionel Boyce Dish on Season 3 of ‘The Bear’

NOC Interview: Ayo Edebiri, Liza Colón-Zayas, and Lionel Boyce Dish on Season 3 of ‘The Bear’ @TheMustacheMan @hulu @FXNetworks @TheBearFX #TheBearFX #TheBear

Ayo Edebiri, Liza Colón-Zayas, and Lionel Boyce star as Sydney Adamu, Bettina “Tina” Marrero, and Marcus Brooks in The Bear. All episodes of the new season are currently streaming, exclusively on Hulu.  This interview will contain spoilers. Continue reading Ayo Edebiri, Liza Colón-Zayas, and Lionel Boyce Dish on Season 3 of ‘The Bear’

[utopians]

chris fleming always puts forward such a specific vision I can always see it so clearly in my mind's eye

[swoopyswish]

i'm watching one of the worst horror movies i've ever seen (it's so bad that i can't stop and need to know how it ends) and a dramatic scene just ended with the lead guy kissing his love interest goodbye and the subtitle just says [smooches] and idk that sent me over the edge, i'm laughing so hard

[directedbywomen]

After taking a dinner break, I continued today's 12 hour #DirectedbyWomen #FilmFeast by streaming India Sweets and Spices (2021) directed by Geeta Malik on Hulu.

"India Sweets and Spices celebrates a young woman’s coming of age set against a lovingly framed glimpse of the life of an Indian American family."

[tirednotflirting]

no but like the bear is such amazing television how is it THIS GOOD

[slumbering-shadows]

It's so funny that I pay for these streaming services and they still make me watch ads hahaha it's soooooo fun

[my-my-27]

If Bob's Burgers ever did a live action episode this is how I would Cast the characters.

Bob- Nick Offerman

Linda- Tina Fey

Tina- Rowan Blanchard

Gene- Elliot (Ellen) Page

Louise Jenny Ortega

Teddy- Danny Devito

Mort - Rainn Wilson

Mr. Fischoder- George Clooney

Felix - Owen Wilson

Fanny- Mya Ridloph

Gretchen- Rebel Wilson

Gail- Anna Kendrick

[ms-ss]

Your tags are extremely valid too, and you should include them.

The Girlfriend Montage

I can't shake this moment from my mind and some interpretations of moments like this in this season have gotten me mad, so here's what I've got to say about the girlfriend montage. Carmy telling Richie he's gotta call his girlfriend, then we get splices of scenes containing Carmy making food for Claire, Claire working in the hospital, and for reasons that are highly debated by some but seem completely obvious to others including myself there are scenes of Sydney interjected into the couple's montage.

I have my thoughts as to why Sydney is in the montage but that's not the point I want to linger on, not now at least.

I am going to focus on this part in particular: the one where Sydney is undressing and we see the Three of Swords tattoo.

To me, nothing is unintentional in this show. Nothing is inconsequential. And this small, two second shot of Sydney proves that in more ways than I can think of.

What I can't shake is how freaking similar it is to a scene we will later see in ep. 9. The sex scene with Carmy and Claire. It's an intimate moment. The room is cast in blue hues. It's all close up shots, quick cuts, and we can barely make out who is who and what is where. The moment is completely intimate and sensual in all the ways a romantic sex scene typically is conveyed.

And it matches the picture above nearly identically.

The choice to show the audience Sydney's tattoo bathed in this blue light that they will later use for Carmy and Claire's sex scene, the choice to capture this extreme close up, the choice to include the strap of her bra and a tattoo with an image that symbolizes heartbreak and betrayal, the choice to put one of the most intimate and vulnerable shots of Sydney in this montage meant for a couple is.... pretty indicative of the romantic undertones hidden in Carmy and Sydney's connection. The first time I saw it, I was blown away by how intimate of a shot that was of Sydney. We've never seen her like that - undressing, her skin that is always covered exposed, seeing for the first time that she has a tattoo. Just like we never saw Carmy like that in his sex scene with Claire, him being so intimately exposed.

I don't know how else to interpret it. Because all of what's stated above is not coincidence. The creators of this show didn't coincidentally put scenes of Sydney into the couple's montage and they definitely didn't mirror the imagery from the picture above to the sex scene in ep. 9 on accident. Just like how they didn't coincidentally have Carmy think of Sydney to calm him down during his panic attack.