Where's the Beef? (read aloud by Reilly)

In this well-justified rant of a review of season 3 of FX’s The Bear, I break down how the show’s slow-motion descent into prestige TV indulgence turns Carmy’s fine-dining ambitions into the storytelling equivalent of a Christopher Nolan movie on ketamine. From the LOUD NOISES dialogue of Episode 2 to entire episodes that feel like unnecessary side quests, I ask: has The Bear become the very thing it set out to critique?