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Ugh, thank you. I haven't watched season 3; the trailer really put me off. Someone .... (Tim Mazurek?) made the point .... somewhere, that the whole fine-dining, tasting menu, Michelin star obsession also makes the Bear seem woefully out of date, saying "If it was truly a restaurant of the moment it would be a wine bar" -- or something to that effect.

Much like media ostensibly about violence against women that revels in visuals of naked, battered female bodies, the Bear seems too infatuated with the very thing it's supposed to critique. I got a whiff of this in Season 2 but was so in love with the character studies of that season (Marcus! Richie! Mom!) that I sort of brushed it aside.

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You might be tired of writing them but I've really enjoyed your pieces on the bear. As someone who's only opened two restaurants this one especially hits for me. Trying to figure out how to write about season 3 myself..

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finally i have something to send to the next bleepin person who asks me if ive seen the show…..no and please read millicent instead

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Oh thank you for these beautiful reflections. I was really uncertain about the season until about episode 4 and then a lot clicked in place and I’m having my own version of all the feelings. My own labor, my mom’s brutally unfair layoff in the recession, family dynamics, whew it brings up a lot. Really love your observations/notes! Also: do they play this titular Sundays song? I still have two more eps to go and don’t remember hearing it yet (but so much good music in general this season!)

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Oh whoops, back to say I just realized/remembered upon hearing the Counting Crows in the ep I just watched that you said you *didnt* like some of the sdtrk. Whoops! (I’m embarrassingly a CC fan😅)

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You should know I can be annoyingly opinionated when it comes to music--I was deep into indie rock/noise/ambient/metal at the time of the Counting Crows fame. Please take my grumpus with a grain of salt.

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I was scared of watching this season but this convinced me. It is always labor that is the story. Choose labor, side with labor.

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The labor still is the story, the people trying to figure it out.

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