Multiple people were at fault to varying degrees here: Carmy was at fault for letting Sydney, an inexperienced chef, implement ideas without much supervision. He didn't handle the pressure the best, but the situation was fucked from the start anyway. Syd was at fault for letting the pre-order stay open (I'm not blaming her for the review, no way she would have know it was a reviewer). Plus, she does have an ego problem and she caved under the pressure. Marcus... my dude, everyone is in a panic and he was working on his donut. I get being in "the zone" but there's no excuse. Everything is going wrong and he's just adding to the pressure. Then got all hurt when reality hit him. Richie was at fault for adding to the tension by gloating over how "he was right" and so on, not helping calming things down at all. Tina brought her son to what she knew was a stressful day with a new system. Lots of fault, some more than others... all culminating in the explosion that was this episode.
Straight Lisa Simpson'd. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this show. It feels like a lot of the chaos isn't as chaotic as the characters are making it sound.
Aaron got it. Carmy is allowing Sydney to make dramatic changes, but despite him knowing she’s very inexperienced, hasn’t assisted in making these changes
I love how ayo plays the scenes she has… it feels so real rather than over dramatized tv…. She deserved the Emmy 100%… next episode you’ll see how Jeremy cemented his Emmy
I’ve been saying this!! She is incredibly gifted at acting natural on camera. She feels and moves and speaks like a real person. Her reactions are so authentic
I'd say that's because she does stand-up comedy, it's very difficult to get that right and depends 100% on being able to take the temperature of the room and gauge the audience so you can adjust your jokes, your timing and your deliveries. That seems to be second nature to her when shooting scenes
My wife (a former Michelin-starred pastry chef) and I watched this together, and when I tell you that she couldn’t sleep because the sound of the tickets rolling gave her so much anxiety from her days in the kitchen, and that she almost wanted to stop watching the show altogether, that’s how I knew how “real” this show felt to those in the industry. Just so intense.
This episode is still THE EPISODE to me. As much as I love Forks, and stressful as Fishes can get, this episode genuinely hurts to watch. I've worked in service for 9 years, and yeah. This is what it looks like when your shit gets rocked. It takes surprisingly few dominos for it to happen too. Still gives me nightmares.
@@MH3Raiser this episode was infinitely more stressful than Fishes for me. the way that goddamn ticket printer kept going off was such a visceral thing, and that's having only worked service bar and not even a kitchen. the way the camera kept flashing to the expo board piled up with tickets and the printer still going I was just like "PLEASE STOP" lol
Thank you to Aaron pointing out that Carmy has been leaving the responsibility of implementing changes to Sydney. He doesn’t provide assistance when she faces continuous resistance from the staff and she’s left to navigate it all on her own. And then also in this episode when Tina brings her son in and he immediately pushes the responsibility onto Sydney. A lot of people lose sight of that.
I disagree with points you made here Carmie has said Sydney is in charge of the kitchen while Carmie is in charge of business and everything else unless they’re in the shit in which case Carmie jumps on the line and does a bit of everyone’s job, so it’s her job to find a place to put Tina’s kid in her system of the kitchen. Unless she just says no in which case that’s between her and Tina on where to put him. Also Carmie has been implementing change he introduced the brigade when Sydney didn’t want it and it worked, He’s been adding and changing the menu with the lemon chicken and the new beef sandwiches but he does it at a gradual pace where Sydney wants to go 0-100 real quick and he knows that’s not going to work with the staff and how they operate it needs to be gradual. Sydney’s character is amazing but impatient and overzealous who chases possibility but crashes and burns when she hits with the wall of reality (like what happened to her personal business).
@@laramorrison5973 she's never direct, in the middle of the chaos "i don't think we are in the same page" instead of just saying the problems she have, Carmy: "you got this right?" (with tina's son ) She: yeah...
@@venenders170 whilst a lot of this is true, Carmy also completely ignores all the signs that people are not coping or struggling. He is so used to being a machine that he cannot see that other people are not. Sidney tried talking to him many times at the start and got no where so just started accepting it
Yeah the commercial breaks on Hulu are really weird. The Bear is on Disney + here in the UK and they've stitched it up to remove the breaks so I was completely floored by the one shot in this episode. But then when I was watching reactions to the show and realised how it was on Hulu I felt like people were being robbed of the 20 minute long one shot lmao
I knew Blind Wave would appreciate the one shot. The feeling of this episode is so real. Having worked in a kitchen for years, this episode gave me so much anxiety, and all the busiest days I ever had just rushed into memory.
It’s pretty trash for Hulu to have interrupted the long take; when I watched it when the first season initially dropped a couple years ago, Hulu was good enough to leave the one take intact unbroken by commercial break
I've been waiting for them to witness this chaos. Even as a line cook and someone that should be more used to it, this show is STRESSFUL and I couldn't blame someone for it being overwhelming
i think he really got into cooking bc of Carmy and everything he did impressed him so he wanted to impressed Carmy yes wrong timing but he did really try for a long time to do the perfect Donut and he did (for Marcus at least that was perfect) so he wanted to show Carmy .. yes the timing he choose is horrible bc Carmy needed everyone focus on the preparation of the orders but i kinda feel for Marcus there cause Carmy clearly don't know how to deal with shit that doesn't go the way he want or was plan sometimes you got unexpected things happen and he clearly doesn't know how to process it yelling at your employee is not the solution
Pastry station is ESPECIALLY understandably disconnected from the rest of the service workflow: most of that station’s work is done ahead of time, which in fairness he did fail to complete; this was a slightly consequence of freeing him from bread duty even if that was the smart choice
In episode 2, there’s a one off moment at the end where Carmy and Ritchie bring up that Cicero used his connections to get the safety inspector to come back quickly instead of waiting a month.
So i actually did a thesis based on this show about something i like to call ''controled chaos'' and how this show inverts the role of how we see Chaos. As a viewer you might think that the fast editing, the different images interwining, the fast paced stuff is actually a lot of chaos, mess and disorder cause it feels like that, but it's actually the opposite. When they are cooking, they are in control, they control the stuff that is happening, the ingredients, the fire, the heat of the kitchen, but the show edited the cooking stufe yo feel stressfull, but when the show slows down, and there's little to no editing and a lot of conversation and steady camera, that's when the characters are not in control and show who they really are and how they cannot handle situations, cause we focus on them. i.e. in episode 2 Richie and the phone call from his daughter. Richie cannot control the situation, he's on the phone he cannot do anything, but we never cut to his wife or children, we are focusing on him, same with Ayo's character in the store when Richie is complaining about Camry, The camera doesnt leave her and she's tries to controle Richie but cannot do anything cause richie is so focused complaining and Richie is going from side to side. These situations are the true uncontrolled chaos. Not the kitchen, and this episode is the epithome of that thesis, everything is one shot cause there is no control, from the moment Tína enters with his sun, they cannot control that, and everything goes downward spiral from there, that's why there's no fast editing. This is uncontrolled chaos.
Carmy does not want to be like his former boss at all, and you can run a kitchen without telling people they should kill themselves. Put simply, a mistake was made in the process of implementing something new, the resulting chaos led to the family not being able to handle the situation with clarity. The Reviewer: Of course it wasn't intentional to give it to a reviewer, purely coincidental that was just tv. If Sydney knew there was a reviewer, she wouldn't have given him the dish at all. She gave it because it was going uneaten and she felt Carmy didn't appreciate it. At least that was my take. Marcus & His Donuts: He didn't think his bread was the best. He would constantly state throughout the first episode that the mixer was messed up. Not only does every person with pride in what they do have sensitivity about what they do, but of course Every Chef has ego. How else do you muster the courage to make something and put it in people's mouths?
See I thought it was like an intentional artistic decision. “Like wow it’s so cool. The camera wants to cut away only to be dragged right back into the chaos.” Like it was saying, “No. you aren’t allowed to look away from the chaos” Turns out it was just for ad breaks lmao.
I see a lot of people talking about being stressed and feeling second-hand anxiety, I watched both seasons and I'm enjoying these chaotic scenes, to the point where I often laugh. I guess that's what I mostly wanna see from the show, or I'm just weird
Change can only be facilitated if everyone is onboard, so Sydney was kind of screwed from the start. Ritchie literally contributes nothing positive to the restaurant until Season 2, so it's fascinating to see so many viewers cheer him on while giving Sydney shit for this one honest mistake she made with the to-go orders in this episode (and insulting Ritchie, but he's consistently been doing that to her from the jump). Forget about the fact she handed Carmy a free business plan, found a way to cook and serve food when the power went out, respected Carmy off the bat and the countless other things I know I'm forgetting to mention. Like, Ritchie has had moments of reflection throughout the show and late in Season 2 he does get better, but acting like he's some saint is crazy, because there's no way you're watching the same show. Sydney was trying to communicate with Carmy: "I feel like we're not on the same page". When Ebra reads the review she admits she gave the dish to a customer, then Carmy says it's good for business, instead of actually expressing how he feels, but when he gets angry he says her dish wasn't ready, and cusses her out about running expo. If Carmy, the owner and boss doesn't communicate, what is Sydney, the sous chef meant to do about that? She opened up to Carmy about not having a maniac screaming, and yelling and pushing when she had her own business and tells him about the changes she would like to implement with him for his business and Carmy agrees, they're the only two people who knows what it's like to work in fine dining, so I can only imagine how Sydney felt to be disrespected in that moment in particular after feeling that they reached an understanding. And to be shafted with the responsibility Carmy should've at least of helped her out, especially since he was told she's talented, but impatient and "green". She's justified for walking out. Now, Marcus... He's so sweet, but that was the worst time to get caught up in his passion. No one deserves to be yelled at like that though. He looked like a kicked puppy when that happened.
in the sea of serious asf comments under this video, this comment totally out of the blue made me blow air out my nose. which is a very high compliment in my book
You get a better understanding of Sydney in season 2. I always looked at it like Sydney loves cooking so much and she's really scared to fail and has so much she wan't to achive so she wan't to do too much, not really thinking about the other stuff that needs to be fixed before they can move on to more advanced stuff.
Marcus was in the zone. It was just the wrong one. 🤦♀️ I read that JAW said they rehearsed until they were practically hoarse. To be on a team, everyone has to be on the same page. I am looking forward to your S1,finale. 😊
This episode is incredible! The tension and stress from beginning to end is immaculately crafted and it just flew by so fast. My jaw was on the floor when it ended. Bravo.
The Bear, Good Time and Uncut Gems are all incredible at bulding an insane tension that keeps you on the edge of you seat holding your breath till it's over. And for some reason I loved that feeling haha
One of the most stressful episodes of tv ever made! As someone who worked in restaurants that were this chaotic I can say that no other show truly captures how the kitchen of a restaurant can go from friendly to toxic in less than an hour.
Richie telling Syd "You didn't say corner" when he bumps into her, but then doig the exact same thing to her and gets stabbed feels like karma. He should have said corner.
Absolutely loooove this episode’s opening! chicago by sufjan stevens has been on repeat ever since and I just love the editing including still images and archival footage good shit!!
Another example of a one take that takes place in a kitchen/restaurant is the film "Boiling Point" highly recommend it came out a couple of years ago, Stephen Graham is outstanding and follows him as head chef through an evening at his restaurant, the entire film from start to finish is one shot, and has this mixed feeling of film and theatre production with tension ramping up until the boiling point. Cant recommend it enough.
First time watch is always hard to keep track of when the one-shot began (also bc Hulu breaks as you mentioned). This is one episode that I appreciated more on my 2nd, 3rd, etc re-watches.
19:05 as a chef…. I would say her frame of mind was “you know what chef, you think it’s not ready, SOMEHODY’s gonna eat it…” that’s it. I don’t think it was intentional she was just proud of her dish and had her pride hurt. And to Eric’s point, every chef has a bit of a ego and that can cause a lot of the tension in a kitchen
i actually had to take a break from this episode because it wouldn’t take a break itself 😂 i paused so i could breathe then came back to finish it. SOOO CHAOTIC. great fucking television!
she kinda deserved it, she ruined the preorders and instead of working she was arguing about someones failed marraige and then stabbed them. noone else messed up nearly as much, maybe the doughnut guy but he is acoustic
Not in the middle of work chaos that she created🤣 he was doing his work she didn’t say corner and while he was literally working she goes up to him just only talking shit. Then she even stabbed him due to being irresponsible with a knife which we all learned not to do at a young age. She was immature and refused to take accountability for her actions.
I’ve been patiently waiting till you guys reach this episode. It’s one of my favourites, but it’s also so incredibly anxiety inducing. I was so stressed by the end of it and couldn’t wait till it was over. 10/10 show.
Yeah, I have worked this shift: I was allways by myself with one chef when i had lunch shifts. Our restaurant seated 52 people (really should have been be 48). Worst day was when we had people there AT opening, it filled up within 15 min and didn't stop for 3+ hours... I had to balance service, clearing tables, helping the chef plating up and doing dishes .. I could never...stop...moving. People kept coming and leaving, It was honestly all a blur and I don't understand how we managed.😅😅😅 Yeah, It was insane and I know many of my colleagues who were part timers would have broken down.😢 I somehow made it through 😅
I remember seeing somewhere (probably IMDB) that every episode before this and maybe even including this one is basically a prologue and the show actually "start" next episode.
Dude, that's fucking rough that there were ad breaks for you. In the UK, we don't have HULU, all of that stuff is just on Disney+ so yeah, didn't have that issue.
The movie Boiling Point from 2021 is a 90 minute film all in one take. Good movie, also set in a kitchen/restaurant environment and it's an incredible feat.
If you guys want some crazy camera work I’d reccomend seeing climax for a reaction ( idk how TH-cam appropriate it would be though but it’s another it stance of amazing camera work and the whole film is a quick 90 minutes
I don't think it should be the number of cuts an episode should be applauded for but the length of a shot. For example, Haunting of Hill House had multiple one shots in a single episode. The longest being 17:20 long which is 10 seconds longer than the shot here in The Bear. Both my favorite episodes.
Speaking of movies with looong long shots, you guys should watch ONE CUT OF THE DEAD!!! It was in a poll like a year ago but not too many people have watched that movie so there's no way it was winning lol
If you're into the whole "one shot" thing, there is a Russian feature length film called "Russian Ark" that's shot entirely in one take. the whole film is one take. there is also a German film called Victoria that's in one take as well
IDK if you're a gamer, but God Of War from 2018 is designed and filmed to look like its all one take as well, including transitions between gameplay and cut scenes. it's roughly a 30-40 hour game and the way they designed it is really something!
this episode is a masterwork! maybe a bit over dramatise but it capture the essence of getting fucked in the kitchen. not only that but the whole episode being a one-shot make it even more impressive
I have to say, as great as this episode is, it has a massive flaw. That ticket machine would have absolutely run through it's entire till-roll way before the credits, if this were a real kitchen.
Chicago, a place that is a character, a character that has nut and bolts, bones and flesh, its a tude, an attitude and brain, it thinks for itself, its this place when devoured by its history drowns, Itailians once took things to Lake Michigan, the thing, remember when i said the thing, the thing you would do for me, the thing you took care of, the thing you cooked for us, the thing that pays for everything, cause as long as we do the thing we make ends meat….. dont get me started on the polish, were great at onions and Maxwell street style is the only style, anyone else we dont care but will do your work for you too……..
I’m sorry guys, like… it’s really hard to see how Carm’s in the wrong in this situation, and it’s weird how this show kind of points his response to be worse than what else happened. Is he freaking the hell out? Yes. Is it justified? Also yes. Sidney made a mistake - an honest mistake, but a mistake nonetheless - that royally messed up their planned takeout program, and she cracked under the pressure of the episode. She literally left 15 minutes into the rush. Richie is acting like an actual child and couldn’t leave Sidney alone for a single minute, to the point he offhandedly said “…maybe” when Carmy said he probably deserved the stab. Marcus is off on a different planet focused on these donuts when he was already called out once for being behind on his actual job because of this passion project.
Ohhh yes. Carmy's anger is very justified. The whole kitched is fucked in this episode, but I blame Sydney. She made two mistakes and the left everything. Whenever this happens to me during a shift (at a job, not specifically a restaurant) I at least *finish what I start*. And that's what peeves me about Sydney, the thing she does after her freeze response: Leave and take none of the blame.
"Is he freaking out" is a big thing. Stop down playing it like a Child's mistake just because he's a white dude. Marcus was the first guy to believe in Carmy when he first showed up in The Beef. He didn't deserve to be treated like that. Carmy also manipulates Sydney, first telling her that everything's okay and that her giving the dish to a customer who turned out to be a food critic was just a mistake but then when shit immediately hits the fan, he uses that on her to boost his own ego. Plus, all he does is yell this episode. That's a terrible leader. He doesn't prepare a single thing in those last 10 minutes and alienates the two people who saw him as a friend and respected him through and through.
@@nalday2534I’m black my damn self. Stop bringing race into shit. Sydney was in the wrong. Marcus was in the wrong. Carmy was overwhelmed but all this mess falls back on him. Hence those two leaving and he has to still keep the restaurant open.
The film 1917 isn't one shot. It's stitched together to give the feeling of being one shot. Quentin Tarantino angrily explained this on Bill Maher's podcast.
Sydney does not get enough blame for this episode. She went behind Carmie's back with the risotto, she kept pushing for this new system despite Carmie saying they weren't ready, she finally gets what she wants and Carmie let's her idea go but she doesn't properly think it out and causes this initial mess, people call her out on this and she tries to push the blame, she is refusing to listen to Carmie THE HEAD who is trying to get control of this situation on the line, she was rushing around corners without using her own system of corner calling then tries to blame Richie (who by the way was doing work constantly when the rush happened even the Kid was helping), she goes into Riche way harder than he does then threatens to stab him and proceeds to do so, then just leaves in the middle of a service rush. If this was reality she would never work in this kitchen again if she walked out like that.
honestly she does, some people go fucking insane in their comments about her lmao however yeah, pushing it all on Carmie and saying Marcus and Sydney are blameless is fucked up, Carmie was too aggro but Sydney/Marcus are so "innocent" and clueless, one does not see the most chaotic thing happening around him and keeps working on a pointless side thing and the other just, yeah i really appreciate when people notice that yeah, in fact, as soon as shit hit the fan, Richie turned off ALL of the fucking around and being a dick and was ALL business, he didn't care if he was an expert at something or not, he was helping wherever the hell he could. he's a dick and a fair bit sexist, but he's not unreasonable
@@anais6654 In the brigade system, it is the responsibility of the sous to direct the kitchen so that the head chef is able to focus on. Carmie, as both the owner and the executive chef, is responsible for all the background stuff, ie: inventory and ordering, payroll and managing the restaurant in general. The responsibility he placed on Sydney is the responsibility that is expected of a sous chef. It's not Carmie's fault that Sydney was out of her depth.
And who are the one said in E3 that the brigade system going to make thing very toxic? I'm not saying she is not responsible for even a tiny thing, the whole thing with her is her impatience - push for thing that Carmie didn't feel ready yet. And guess what, the moment shit hit the fans, the toxic come out all, and the most toxic of all is Carmie, who clearly "shine" in this envoriment before (E2). And again, why people still saying the risotto thing like she planned it with the whole "behind Carmie's back"? She clearly doesn't know... No one going to give the food you doesn't serve on the menu to a freaking critics...
Both Marcus n Sydney were responsible for a lot of the things that went awry on the episode and the worst was that they were the ones who snapped when things got tense n Carmy was cussing everyone. Imagine how they would react to that idiot chef Carmy was working under at the fancy NY restaurant? And it was surprising how Richie remained calm after he was stabbed, even if before Sydney was all up on his face n everything. Leaving the crew behind at their worst was a low blow, they should've taken responsibility, being accountable for their mistakes n help out. A super chaotic episode and there are a few like that, if i recall prob just 1 or 2 worse but not much, rhis was as chaotic as it gets
Jesus H christmas carols this show is so hard to watch cause i hate this kinda work chaos so bad i couldnt stand working in a kitchen let alone one like this
Absolutely love this episode but it does bother me a bit how the show tries to tell you that Carmie was the one most at fault in this situation. It was a crisis situation which required a dictatorial response. Some of the staff are messing around and not following his instructions so of course he was going to blow his top. Seems a completely justified response in my opinion but Marcus and Sydney never really fully take responsibility for how much they fucked up here
YES Thank you! That bothers me too! It's very life-like. Sometimes shit happens. But for a *show* that is written by people, Sydney never took up the blame, really.
He alienated the two people who believed in him when he first walked into this mess to boost his own ego. He got Sydney off the leadership Role to do what? Scream and curse at people and not get a single thing ready in those last 10 minutes. Dictatorial response ain't getting you anywhere if this is what it looks like
@@nalday2534 Sydney was floundering from the get-go. She was acting slowly and indecisively. He needed to take charge to get things moving quickly. And Marcus's actions were absolutely comical in how oblivious he was to the seriousness of the situation. I don't see how any of what Carmen did was an ego thing. A crisis occurred and swift and decisive action was required
@@nalday2534 he got more thing ready than sydney who ruined cakes and shittalked someones marraige while stabbing them and not even saying sorry for that
@@mum-your why tf would she say sorry to a pos who has been doing nothing but belittling her, and making sexual remarks about her? The showrunner will be the first person to tell you richie had it coming. Oh and what did Carmy get ready exactly? Let's hear it genius
Sydney knew she made a mistake she was trying to fix it. She also told Carmen that the system wasn't ready and she had concerns of her running the new program on her own the first time so he could teach a child how to freaking be a chef. Marcus was completely in the wrong, mind you I don't belive he said he wasn't. He was just in his feelings.
This episode bothers the hell out of me. Sydney walking out and saying it wasn't on her was ridiculous. It absolutely was on her. That doesn't necessarily excuse Carmy for melting down and unloading on everyone, but come on. She fucked up. Several times. She gave a dish they don't serve to a reviewer (innocent mistake), but it hyped up the restaurant, which would have been great if it didn't get compounded by her next mistake. She pushed to have the To Go orders, and then she screwed up and left pre-orders open, and combined with the hype, absolutely bombed them with orders. And then of course she stabbed Richie. Her issue, as mentioned before in the show and what cost her her original business, is that she pushes too fast and gets ahead of herself. She did it again here. She has the right to walk out and quit because she doesn't want to deal with a guy who unloads on her, that's fine. But own up to your mistakes. And that's not mentioning Marcus, who was fucking around with his own bullshit while things were melting down. DO YOUR JOB. He swore to Carmy earlier in the season that he wouldn't let the donut thing interfere with his work, and not only did he fuck up in a previous episode due to his donuts (blowing the use by trying to increase the speed of the mixer because he fell behind due to his donuts), he did it again here. The world was on fire, everyone is stressing trying to fulfill orders, he was told multiple times to drop the goddamn donuts and do his actual job, and he walks up to Carmy asking him to try a donut? STFU and work man. I think he deserved Carmy unloading on him more than Sydney did.
100% agree on Sydney. In my household we learned one thing: Finish what you start. And to me Sydney did the worst thing, walk out on a situation she created instead of owning up to it and trying to fix it. Like omg! Even in Episode 8 they kinda smooth it over, but was it ever really 'fixed' in the audiences eyes?
@@bethanychatman9531 That's not a main reason - though a good point by you. You never put out a dish being worked on for multiple reasons, but the main reasons are: 1. If the head chef says it's not ready there is a reason for that - they don't want a customer trying something that they feel isn't ready. It's not up to their standards. 2. People will believe it's something that is on the menu and will start asking for it. Even if it's a dish that you end up putting on the menu, you might be rolling it out weeks / months from when they first try it, not right away. 3. You never know who the customer is who is tasting it (critic, someone who has influence, etc) If you're working on a dish and have extra there's no worry about it going to waste. You just leave it for the staff and they're the ones who will finish it off, and they'll be grateful.
It bothers me how the show makes Carmy apologise to Sydney and Marcus both (which he should), while Sydney and Marcus don’t take any responsibility and even get to shit talk about Carmy together and never apologise back lol
Sydney annoys me so much in this episode. I like her in most other episodes, but in this one all the problems are caused by her and she never owns up to it? Like 10:35 she says 'this isn't on me' and Im like YES IT IS WHAT DO YOU MEAN. I get that Richie is an asshole, but there is no need to be mean (05:40 and 08:45). I get that Sydney doesn't know his mindset rn, but she can't calm down for one second! Something just does not sit right with me and Sydney in this episode. Maybe it's my morals idk but it's off putting XD
This is the episode where i started to not like Sydney. I think her ego got in the away and didn't accept responsibility for her actions. And she really pushed at Richie. When you know someone is volatile... to blatantly verbally come at them is adding fuel to a fire. I found what she said to him to be unnecessary and cruel intentionally. I think Richie is a mess but he doesn't do that.
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richie, of all people, keeping his cool and even increasing his productivity once the chaos started. that’s a man who’s comfortable in it 😂
Multiple people were at fault to varying degrees here:
Carmy was at fault for letting Sydney, an inexperienced chef, implement ideas without much supervision. He didn't handle the pressure the best, but the situation was fucked from the start anyway.
Syd was at fault for letting the pre-order stay open (I'm not blaming her for the review, no way she would have know it was a reviewer). Plus, she does have an ego problem and she caved under the pressure.
Marcus... my dude, everyone is in a panic and he was working on his donut. I get being in "the zone" but there's no excuse. Everything is going wrong and he's just adding to the pressure. Then got all hurt when reality hit him.
Richie was at fault for adding to the tension by gloating over how "he was right" and so on, not helping calming things down at all.
Tina brought her son to what she knew was a stressful day with a new system.
Lots of fault, some more than others... all culminating in the explosion that was this episode.
You know that someone has finally snapped when they're just silently sitting in the corner with a ":D" on their face lol
Straight Lisa Simpson'd. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this show. It feels like a lot of the chaos isn't as chaotic as the characters are making it sound.
Aaron got it. Carmy is allowing Sydney to make dramatic changes, but despite him knowing she’s very inexperienced, hasn’t assisted in making these changes
I love how ayo plays the scenes she has… it feels so real rather than over dramatized tv…. She deserved the Emmy 100%… next episode you’ll see how Jeremy cemented his Emmy
I’ve been saying this!! She is incredibly gifted at acting natural on camera. She feels and moves and speaks like a real person. Her reactions are so authentic
100%
her sarcastic is so annoying i think i know a few real people who talk like that, also her blame shifting is very well done. she deserves that emmy
I'd say that's because she does stand-up comedy, it's very difficult to get that right and depends 100% on being able to take the temperature of the room and gauge the audience so you can adjust your jokes, your timing and your deliveries. That seems to be second nature to her when shooting scenes
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My wife (a former Michelin-starred pastry chef) and I watched this together, and when I tell you that she couldn’t sleep because the sound of the tickets rolling gave her so much anxiety from her days in the kitchen, and that she almost wanted to stop watching the show altogether, that’s how I knew how “real” this show felt to those in the industry. Just so intense.
This episode is still THE EPISODE to me. As much as I love Forks, and stressful as Fishes can get, this episode genuinely hurts to watch.
I've worked in service for 9 years, and yeah. This is what it looks like when your shit gets rocked. It takes surprisingly few dominos for it to happen too. Still gives me nightmares.
@@MH3Raiser this episode was infinitely more stressful than Fishes for me. the way that goddamn ticket printer kept going off was such a visceral thing, and that's having only worked service bar and not even a kitchen. the way the camera kept flashing to the expo board piled up with tickets and the printer still going I was just like "PLEASE STOP" lol
"20 mins till we open" and its exactly 20 min till the end of episode
Thank you to Aaron pointing out that Carmy has been leaving the responsibility of implementing changes to Sydney. He doesn’t provide assistance when she faces continuous resistance from the staff and she’s left to navigate it all on her own. And then also in this episode when Tina brings her son in and he immediately pushes the responsibility onto Sydney. A lot of people lose sight of that.
and she can't say no? "I'm full, can't supervise that"
@@StalkerZeroRocky she tried many times, Carmy doesn't hear her
I disagree with points you made here Carmie has said Sydney is in charge of the kitchen while Carmie is in charge of business and everything else unless they’re in the shit in which case Carmie jumps on the line and does a bit of everyone’s job, so it’s her job to find a place to put Tina’s kid in her system of the kitchen. Unless she just says no in which case that’s between her and Tina on where to put him. Also Carmie has been implementing change he introduced the brigade when Sydney didn’t want it and it worked, He’s been adding and changing the menu with the lemon chicken and the new beef sandwiches but he does it at a gradual pace where Sydney wants to go 0-100 real quick and he knows that’s not going to work with the staff and how they operate it needs to be gradual. Sydney’s character is amazing but impatient and overzealous who chases possibility but crashes and burns when she hits with the wall of reality (like what happened to her personal business).
@@laramorrison5973 she's never direct, in the middle of the chaos "i don't think we are in the same page" instead of just saying the problems she have,
Carmy: "you got this right?" (with tina's son ) She: yeah...
@@venenders170 whilst a lot of this is true, Carmy also completely ignores all the signs that people are not coping or struggling. He is so used to being a machine that he cannot see that other people are not. Sidney tried talking to him many times at the start and got no where so just started accepting it
Yeah the commercial breaks on Hulu are really weird. The Bear is on Disney + here in the UK and they've stitched it up to remove the breaks so I was completely floored by the one shot in this episode. But then when I was watching reactions to the show and realised how it was on Hulu I felt like people were being robbed of the 20 minute long one shot lmao
This was airing on FX and then dropping on Hulu. So those cut to blacks that broke up the one shot were intended for commercial breaks
That has to suck. On Disney+ there is no cut
@@cthulhuz0Depends on the plan you have I get actual commercial breaks for Hulu shows on Disney +
Marcus and his doughnut is so funny to me. He walks up to Carmy with a big smile on his face looking for approval and Carmen just goes off on him lmao
*slaps the donut off his hand* GET TF BACK TO WORK 🤣🤣
I felt so bad for him but at the same time it’s like dude get the fuck to work, like do you not see what’s going on lmao?
I knew Blind Wave would appreciate the one shot. The feeling of this episode is so real. Having worked in a kitchen for years, this episode gave me so much anxiety, and all the busiest days I ever had just rushed into memory.
It’s pretty trash for Hulu to have interrupted the long take; when I watched it when the first season initially dropped a couple years ago, Hulu was good enough to leave the one take intact unbroken by commercial break
Since. The. Phone.
This was the episode where I realized this show might just be something special
Aaron hopping up from the stabbing killed me.
I've been waiting for them to witness this chaos. Even as a line cook and someone that should be more used to it, this show is STRESSFUL and I couldn't blame someone for it being overwhelming
wtf was Marcus thinking lmao
He was in the zone lol
He was in the zone, just at the wrong time lmoa. Prioraties
Why are you fucking with me?
i think he really got into cooking bc of Carmy and everything he did impressed him so he wanted to impressed Carmy yes wrong timing but he did really try for a long time to do the perfect Donut and he did (for Marcus at least that was perfect) so he wanted to show Carmy .. yes the timing he choose is horrible bc Carmy needed everyone focus on the preparation of the orders but i kinda feel for Marcus there cause Carmy clearly don't know how to deal with shit that doesn't go the way he want or was plan sometimes you got unexpected things happen and he clearly doesn't know how to process it yelling at your employee is not the solution
Pastry station is ESPECIALLY understandably disconnected from the rest of the service workflow: most of that station’s work is done ahead of time, which in fairness he did fail to complete; this was a slightly consequence of freeing him from bread duty even if that was the smart choice
The shitstorm was captured so well, and when the credits roll you can finally breathe.
Except you can't because you still hear the printer going over the credits. They hit the anxiety on the head with this episode.
In episode 2, there’s a one off moment at the end where Carmy and Ritchie bring up that Cicero used his connections to get the safety inspector to come back quickly instead of waiting a month.
This episode is a masterclass in direction. Also Aaron's "I keep all my dad jokes in a dad-a-base" tee shirt is amazing.
So i actually did a thesis based on this show about something i like to call ''controled chaos'' and how this show inverts the role of how we see Chaos.
As a viewer you might think that the fast editing, the different images interwining, the fast paced stuff is actually a lot of chaos, mess and disorder cause it feels like that, but it's actually the opposite. When they are cooking, they are in control, they control the stuff that is happening, the ingredients, the fire, the heat of the kitchen, but the show edited the cooking stufe yo feel stressfull, but when the show slows down, and there's little to no editing and a lot of conversation and steady camera, that's when the characters are not in control and show who they really are and how they cannot handle situations, cause we focus on them. i.e. in episode 2 Richie and the phone call from his daughter. Richie cannot control the situation, he's on the phone he cannot do anything, but we never cut to his wife or children, we are focusing on him, same with Ayo's character in the store when Richie is complaining about Camry, The camera doesnt leave her and she's tries to controle Richie but cannot do anything cause richie is so focused complaining and Richie is going from side to side. These situations are the true uncontrolled chaos. Not the kitchen, and this episode is the epithome of that thesis, everything is one shot cause there is no control, from the moment Tína enters with his sun, they cannot control that, and everything goes downward spiral from there, that's why there's no fast editing. This is uncontrolled chaos.
Carmy does not want to be like his former boss at all, and you can run a kitchen without telling people they should kill themselves. Put simply, a mistake was made in the process of implementing something new, the resulting chaos led to the family not being able to handle the situation with clarity.
The Reviewer: Of course it wasn't intentional to give it to a reviewer, purely coincidental that was just tv. If Sydney knew there was a reviewer, she wouldn't have given him the dish at all. She gave it because it was going uneaten and she felt Carmy didn't appreciate it. At least that was my take.
Marcus & His Donuts: He didn't think his bread was the best. He would constantly state throughout the first episode that the mixer was messed up.
Not only does every person with pride in what they do have sensitivity about what they do, but of course Every Chef has ego. How else do you muster the courage to make something and put it in people's mouths?
This episode truly captures one thing The Bear does perfectly, the second hand stress and anxiety this show can induce is very impressive.
I knew this episode was a one shot before I saw it and was so mad at Hulu for the ad skip thing
See I thought it was like an intentional artistic decision. “Like wow it’s so cool. The camera wants to cut away only to be dragged right back into the chaos.” Like it was saying, “No. you aren’t allowed to look away from the chaos”
Turns out it was just for ad breaks lmao.
Sufjan is such an absolutely incredible artist. I love him so so much.
I made the mistake of watching this episode one night before bed and it completely f*ed my sleep that night, like I was having empathy stress.
I see a lot of people talking about being stressed and feeling second-hand anxiety, I watched both seasons and I'm enjoying these chaotic scenes, to the point where I often laugh. I guess that's what I mostly wanna see from the show, or I'm just weird
Change can only be facilitated if everyone is onboard, so Sydney was kind of screwed from the start.
Ritchie literally contributes nothing positive to the restaurant until Season 2, so it's fascinating to see so many viewers cheer him on while giving Sydney shit for this one honest mistake she made with the to-go orders in this episode (and insulting Ritchie, but he's consistently been doing that to her from the jump). Forget about the fact she handed Carmy a free business plan, found a way to cook and serve food when the power went out, respected Carmy off the bat and the countless other things I know I'm forgetting to mention.
Like, Ritchie has had moments of reflection throughout the show and late in Season 2 he does get better, but acting like he's some saint is crazy, because there's no way you're watching the same show.
Sydney was trying to communicate with Carmy: "I feel like we're not on the same page". When Ebra reads the review she admits she gave the dish to a customer, then Carmy says it's good for business, instead of actually expressing how he feels, but when he gets angry he says her dish wasn't ready, and cusses her out about running expo. If Carmy, the owner and boss doesn't communicate, what is Sydney, the sous chef meant to do about that? She opened up to Carmy about not having a maniac screaming, and yelling and pushing when she had her own business and tells him about the changes she would like to implement with him for his business and Carmy agrees, they're the only two people who knows what it's like to work in fine dining, so I can only imagine how Sydney felt to be disrespected in that moment in particular after feeling that they reached an understanding. And to be shafted with the responsibility Carmy should've at least of helped her out, especially since he was told she's talented, but impatient and "green". She's justified for walking out.
Now, Marcus... He's so sweet, but that was the worst time to get caught up in his passion. No one deserves to be yelled at like that though. He looked like a kicked puppy when that happened.
I freaking love Jeremy Allen White, such a great actor and also what an intense episode this was
Eric = The Bear
Calvin = The Otter
Aaron = The Cub
hahahaha
in the sea of serious asf comments under this video, this comment totally out of the blue made me blow air out my nose. which is a very high compliment in my book
At the end of the first episode, he almost opened a can… 😅 remember that…
You get a better understanding of Sydney in season 2. I always looked at it like Sydney loves cooking so much and she's really scared to fail and has so much she wan't to achive so she wan't to do too much, not really thinking about the other stuff that needs to be fixed before they can move on to more advanced stuff.
Marcus was in the zone. It was just the wrong one. 🤦♀️ I read that JAW said they rehearsed until they were practically hoarse. To be on a team, everyone has to be on the same page. I am looking forward to your S1,finale. 😊
This episode is incredible! The tension and stress from beginning to end is immaculately crafted and it just flew by so fast. My jaw was on the floor when it ended. Bravo.
pretty sure they won the emmy for directing for this episode which is obviously incredibly deserved
The Bear, Good Time and Uncut Gems are all incredible at bulding an insane tension that keeps you on the edge of you seat holding your breath till it's over. And for some reason I loved that feeling haha
One of the most stressful episodes of tv ever made! As someone who worked in restaurants that were this chaotic I can say that no other show truly captures how the kitchen of a restaurant can go from friendly to toxic in less than an hour.
Richie telling Syd "You didn't say corner" when he bumps into her, but then doig the exact same thing to her and gets stabbed feels like karma. He should have said corner.
Absolutely loooove this episode’s opening! chicago by sufjan stevens has been on repeat ever since and I just love the editing including still images and archival footage good shit!!
Richie got stabbed and kept going, but needed half a Zanax to get thru Uncle Jimmy's party 😂😂😂
Family 😩
Another example of a one take that takes place in a kitchen/restaurant is the film "Boiling Point" highly recommend it came out a couple of years ago, Stephen Graham is outstanding and follows him as head chef through an evening at his restaurant, the entire film from start to finish is one shot, and has this mixed feeling of film and theatre production with tension ramping up until the boiling point. Cant recommend it enough.
First time watch is always hard to keep track of when the one-shot began (also bc Hulu breaks as you mentioned). This is one episode that I appreciated more on my 2nd, 3rd, etc re-watches.
19:05 as a chef…. I would say her frame of mind was “you know what chef, you think it’s not ready, SOMEHODY’s gonna eat it…” that’s it. I don’t think it was intentional she was just proud of her dish and had her pride hurt.
And to Eric’s point, every chef has a bit of a ego and that can cause a lot of the tension in a kitchen
i actually had to take a break from this episode because it wouldn’t take a break itself 😂 i paused so i could breathe then came back to finish it. SOOO CHAOTIC. great fucking television!
if you guys want a masterclass in tension please watch severance. the last episode will leave you speechless
Didn’t breath this whole episode. It’s so intense
Syd was right to go off the way she did since she got there he’s been saying some foul stuff to her man
Exactly! Some people love to forget that.
@@toriboy25 and carmy as much as I love him did not have her back at all
she kinda deserved it, she ruined the preorders and instead of working she was arguing about someones failed marraige and then stabbed them. noone else messed up nearly as much, maybe the doughnut guy but he is acoustic
Not in the middle of work chaos that she created🤣 he was doing his work she didn’t say corner and while he was literally working she goes up to him just only talking shit. Then she even stabbed him due to being irresponsible with a knife which we all learned not to do at a young age. She was immature and refused to take accountability for her actions.
The Bear is one of the best shows at using one shots. And its not only for "action" scenes, but emotional scenes too!
I’ve been patiently waiting till you guys reach this episode. It’s one of my favourites, but it’s also so incredibly anxiety inducing. I was so stressed by the end of it and couldn’t wait till it was over. 10/10 show.
Yeah, I have worked this shift: I was allways by myself with one chef when i had lunch shifts. Our restaurant seated 52 people (really should have been be 48). Worst day was when we had people there AT opening, it filled up within 15 min and didn't stop for 3+ hours... I had to balance service, clearing tables, helping the chef plating up and doing dishes .. I could never...stop...moving. People kept coming and leaving, It was honestly all a blur and I don't understand how we managed.😅😅😅
Yeah, It was insane and I know many of my colleagues who were part timers would have broken down.😢 I somehow made it through 😅
Here it is, the one we're all waiting on. Man, what an episode!
I have been waiting for this one!
I remember seeing somewhere (probably IMDB) that every episode before this and maybe even including this one is basically a prologue and the show actually "start" next episode.
this is one of the best episodes i’ve seen on tv, i love the bear so fucking much
Dude, that's fucking rough that there were ad breaks for you. In the UK, we don't have HULU, all of that stuff is just on Disney+ so yeah, didn't have that issue.
The movie Boiling Point from 2021 is a 90 minute film all in one take. Good movie, also set in a kitchen/restaurant environment and it's an incredible feat.
I love the use of Wilco "Spiders" as the kitchen chaos theme.
Holy shit. If there were ever a Fred Ward biopic, they should get Jon Bernthal to play him.
If you guys want some crazy camera work I’d reccomend seeing climax for a reaction ( idk how TH-cam appropriate it would be though but it’s another it stance of amazing camera work and the whole film is a quick 90 minutes
After the opening discussion, man I can’t wait for THAT episode in season 2 👀
I don't think it should be the number of cuts an episode should be applauded for but the length of a shot. For example, Haunting of Hill House had multiple one shots in a single episode. The longest being 17:20 long which is 10 seconds longer than the shot here in The Bear. Both my favorite episodes.
Speaking of movies with looong long shots, you guys should watch ONE CUT OF THE DEAD!!! It was in a poll like a year ago but not too many people have watched that movie so there's no way it was winning lol
One shot episode. Incredible.
This episode was stressful, but it also was a ONE SHOT
11:26 - YES, there is so much that goes into this. Placing the direction and production aside…. The Acting is just 🤌🏼
"Maybe 19 minutes is all we can go" this made laugh a little. Well, see you after that certain episode in s2 :D
oh can't wait for the next episode reaction
Next week its time for one of the best season finale‘s ever! Gosh when i just think about ,,Let down“
If you're into the whole "one shot" thing, there is a Russian feature length film called "Russian Ark" that's shot entirely in one take. the whole film is one take.
there is also a German film called Victoria that's in one take as well
IDK if you're a gamer, but God Of War from 2018 is designed and filmed to look like its all one take as well, including transitions between gameplay and cut scenes. it's roughly a 30-40 hour game and the way they designed it is really something!
My fav episode of season 1 and a top 3 episode overall.
Man there's nothing more stressful than hearing tickets print nonstop for minutes while you're already busy.
this episode is a masterwork! maybe a bit over dramatise but it capture the essence of getting fucked in the kitchen. not only that but the whole episode being a one-shot make it even more impressive
Oh wait, this is the one shot episode 😍
I have to say, as great as this episode is, it has a massive flaw.
That ticket machine would have absolutely run through it's entire till-roll way before the credits, if this were a real kitchen.
I think I speak for everyone when I say F*CK Hulu.
Was Marcus completely detached from reality here?
I legit thought it was like ling cold open before end titles started rollin
"I love these long shots".... its just one.
this is the bear
Pls react to ‘Little Miss Sunshine’!
Chicago, a place that is a character, a character that has nut and bolts, bones and flesh, its a tude, an attitude and brain, it thinks for itself, its this place when devoured by its history drowns, Itailians once took things to Lake Michigan, the thing, remember when i said the thing, the thing you would do for me, the thing you took care of, the thing you cooked for us, the thing that pays for everything, cause as long as we do the thing we make ends meat….. dont get me started on the polish, were great at onions and Maxwell street style is the only style, anyone else we dont care but will do your work for you too……..
The second most stressful episode of the series
Children of Men mentioned 😎😎😎
Jus wait till you get to season 2 episode 6 ("my fav ep")
I’m sorry guys, like… it’s really hard to see how Carm’s in the wrong in this situation, and it’s weird how this show kind of points his response to be worse than what else happened. Is he freaking the hell out? Yes. Is it justified? Also yes. Sidney made a mistake - an honest mistake, but a mistake nonetheless - that royally messed up their planned takeout program, and she cracked under the pressure of the episode. She literally left 15 minutes into the rush. Richie is acting like an actual child and couldn’t leave Sidney alone for a single minute, to the point he offhandedly said “…maybe” when Carmy said he probably deserved the stab. Marcus is off on a different planet focused on these donuts when he was already called out once for being behind on his actual job because of this passion project.
Ohhh yes. Carmy's anger is very justified. The whole kitched is fucked in this episode, but I blame Sydney. She made two mistakes and the left everything. Whenever this happens to me during a shift (at a job, not specifically a restaurant) I at least *finish what I start*. And that's what peeves me about Sydney, the thing she does after her freeze response: Leave and take none of the blame.
"Is he freaking out" is a big thing. Stop down playing it like a Child's mistake just because he's a white dude. Marcus was the first guy to believe in Carmy when he first showed up in The Beef. He didn't deserve to be treated like that. Carmy also manipulates Sydney, first telling her that everything's okay and that her giving the dish to a customer who turned out to be a food critic was just a mistake but then when shit immediately hits the fan, he uses that on her to boost his own ego. Plus, all he does is yell this episode. That's a terrible leader. He doesn't prepare a single thing in those last 10 minutes and alienates the two people who saw him as a friend and respected him through and through.
@@nalday2534 "just because he's a white dude" LMAOOOOO
@@nalday2534I’m black my damn self. Stop bringing race into shit. Sydney was in the wrong. Marcus was in the wrong. Carmy was overwhelmed but all this mess falls back on him. Hence those two leaving and he has to still keep the restaurant open.
When Carmy said he opened the online orders Sydney said it wasn't ready.
The film 1917 isn't one shot. It's stitched together to give the feeling of being one shot. Quentin Tarantino angrily explained this on Bill Maher's podcast.
*Amazing episode.*
Sydney does not get enough blame for this episode.
She went behind Carmie's back with the risotto, she kept pushing for this new system despite Carmie saying they weren't ready, she finally gets what she wants and Carmie let's her idea go but she doesn't properly think it out and causes this initial mess, people call her out on this and she tries to push the blame, she is refusing to listen to Carmie THE HEAD who is trying to get control of this situation on the line, she was rushing around corners without using her own system of corner calling then tries to blame Richie (who by the way was doing work constantly when the rush happened even the Kid was helping), she goes into Riche way harder than he does then threatens to stab him and proceeds to do so, then just leaves in the middle of a service rush.
If this was reality she would never work in this kitchen again if she walked out like that.
honestly she does, some people go fucking insane in their comments about her lmao
however yeah, pushing it all on Carmie and saying Marcus and Sydney are blameless is fucked up, Carmie was too aggro but Sydney/Marcus are so "innocent" and clueless, one does not see the most chaotic thing happening around him and keeps working on a pointless side thing and the other just, yeah
i really appreciate when people notice that yeah, in fact, as soon as shit hit the fan, Richie turned off ALL of the fucking around and being a dick and was ALL business, he didn't care if he was an expert at something or not, he was helping wherever the hell he could. he's a dick and a fair bit sexist, but he's not unreasonable
sydney gets more than enough blame for this lmao where are you looking?
Carmie put waaay too much responsability to Sydney he’s her boss but he always leave her do shit alone that’s his mistake too
@@anais6654 In the brigade system, it is the responsibility of the sous to direct the kitchen so that the head chef is able to focus on. Carmie, as both the owner and the executive chef, is responsible for all the background stuff, ie: inventory and ordering, payroll and managing the restaurant in general. The responsibility he placed on Sydney is the responsibility that is expected of a sous chef. It's not Carmie's fault that Sydney was out of her depth.
And who are the one said in E3 that the brigade system going to make thing very toxic? I'm not saying she is not responsible for even a tiny thing, the whole thing with her is her impatience - push for thing that Carmie didn't feel ready yet. And guess what, the moment shit hit the fans, the toxic come out all, and the most toxic of all is Carmie, who clearly "shine" in this envoriment before (E2).
And again, why people still saying the risotto thing like she planned it with the whole "behind Carmie's back"? She clearly doesn't know... No one going to give the food you doesn't serve on the menu to a freaking critics...
WhY aRe YoU FuCkInG wItH mE!??!?!
react to The Ones Who Live!!!!!!!
I can't wait for Forks....
Both Marcus n Sydney were responsible for a lot of the things that went awry on the episode and the worst was that they were the ones who snapped when things got tense n Carmy was cussing everyone. Imagine how they would react to that idiot chef Carmy was working under at the fancy NY restaurant?
And it was surprising how Richie remained calm after he was stabbed, even if before Sydney was all up on his face n everything. Leaving the crew behind at their worst was a low blow, they should've taken responsibility, being accountable for their mistakes n help out.
A super chaotic episode and there are a few like that, if i recall prob just 1 or 2 worse but not much, rhis was as chaotic as it gets
Ok, its like at least 75% Sydneys fault, we can all agree right? Marcus was also definitely in the wrong IMHO.
Jesus H christmas carols this show is so hard to watch cause i hate this kinda work chaos so bad i couldnt stand working in a kitchen let alone one like this
but FUCK ITS SO GOOD
Absolutely love this episode but it does bother me a bit how the show tries to tell you that Carmie was the one most at fault in this situation. It was a crisis situation which required a dictatorial response. Some of the staff are messing around and not following his instructions so of course he was going to blow his top. Seems a completely justified response in my opinion but Marcus and Sydney never really fully take responsibility for how much they fucked up here
YES Thank you! That bothers me too!
It's very life-like.
Sometimes shit happens. But for a *show* that is written by people, Sydney never took up the blame, really.
He alienated the two people who believed in him when he first walked into this mess to boost his own ego. He got Sydney off the leadership Role to do what? Scream and curse at people and not get a single thing ready in those last 10 minutes. Dictatorial response ain't getting you anywhere if this is what it looks like
@@nalday2534 Sydney was floundering from the get-go. She was acting slowly and indecisively. He needed to take charge to get things moving quickly. And Marcus's actions were absolutely comical in how oblivious he was to the seriousness of the situation. I don't see how any of what Carmen did was an ego thing. A crisis occurred and swift and decisive action was required
@@nalday2534 he got more thing ready than sydney who ruined cakes and shittalked someones marraige while stabbing them and not even saying sorry for that
@@mum-your why tf would she say sorry to a pos who has been doing nothing but belittling her, and making sexual remarks about her? The showrunner will be the first person to tell you richie had it coming. Oh and what did Carmy get ready exactly? Let's hear it genius
Zero accountability from Sydney or Marcus in this episode.
Sydney knew she made a mistake she was trying to fix it. She also told Carmen that the system wasn't ready and she had concerns of her running the new program on her own the first time so he could teach a child how to freaking be a chef. Marcus was completely in the wrong, mind you I don't belive he said he wasn't. He was just in his feelings.
@@bethanychatman9531 yeah she tried to fix it by arguing about someones marraige and then stabbing them, amazing
@@mum-your Yeah how dare she finally break after being treated like shit by that man for weeks
I honestly don't get how Sydney and Marcus felt right with blaming Carmy for being angry when Sydney fucked up and Marcus just so useless.
This episode bothers the hell out of me. Sydney walking out and saying it wasn't on her was ridiculous. It absolutely was on her. That doesn't necessarily excuse Carmy for melting down and unloading on everyone, but come on. She fucked up. Several times. She gave a dish they don't serve to a reviewer (innocent mistake), but it hyped up the restaurant, which would have been great if it didn't get compounded by her next mistake. She pushed to have the To Go orders, and then she screwed up and left pre-orders open, and combined with the hype, absolutely bombed them with orders. And then of course she stabbed Richie. Her issue, as mentioned before in the show and what cost her her original business, is that she pushes too fast and gets ahead of herself. She did it again here.
She has the right to walk out and quit because she doesn't want to deal with a guy who unloads on her, that's fine. But own up to your mistakes.
And that's not mentioning Marcus, who was fucking around with his own bullshit while things were melting down. DO YOUR JOB. He swore to Carmy earlier in the season that he wouldn't let the donut thing interfere with his work, and not only did he fuck up in a previous episode due to his donuts (blowing the use by trying to increase the speed of the mixer because he fell behind due to his donuts), he did it again here. The world was on fire, everyone is stressing trying to fulfill orders, he was told multiple times to drop the goddamn donuts and do his actual job, and he walks up to Carmy asking him to try a donut? STFU and work man. I think he deserved Carmy unloading on him more than Sydney did.
100% agree on Sydney. In my household we learned one thing: Finish what you start.
And to me Sydney did the worst thing, walk out on a situation she created instead of owning up to it and trying to fix it.
Like omg!
Even in Episode 8 they kinda smooth it over, but was it ever really 'fixed' in the audiences eyes?
You would never give a dish like that to a customer like Sydney did in the prior episode - reviewer or no reviewer.
Could you not? Why not, if you tell him what's in it ( do to allergies) ?
@@bethanychatman9531 That's not a main reason - though a good point by you. You never put out a dish being worked on for multiple reasons, but the main reasons are:
1. If the head chef says it's not ready there is a reason for that - they don't want a customer trying something that they feel isn't ready. It's not up to their standards.
2. People will believe it's something that is on the menu and will start asking for it. Even if it's a dish that you end up putting on the menu, you might be rolling it out weeks / months from when they first try it, not right away.
3. You never know who the customer is who is tasting it (critic, someone who has influence, etc)
If you're working on a dish and have extra there's no worry about it going to waste. You just leave it for the staff and they're the ones who will finish it off, and they'll be grateful.
It bothers me how the show makes Carmy apologise to Sydney and Marcus both (which he should), while Sydney and Marcus don’t take any responsibility and even get to shit talk about Carmy together and never apologise back lol
Am I the only one who finds Sydney annoying? Blaming everyone for her mistakes in this episode
Sydney annoys me so much in this episode. I like her in most other episodes, but in this one all the problems are caused by her and she never owns up to it? Like 10:35 she says 'this isn't on me'
and Im like YES IT IS WHAT DO YOU MEAN.
I get that Richie is an asshole, but there is no need to be mean (05:40 and 08:45). I get that Sydney doesn't know his mindset rn, but she can't calm down for one second! Something just does not sit right with me and Sydney in this episode. Maybe it's my morals idk but it's off putting XD
This is the episode where i started to not like Sydney. I think her ego got in the away and didn't accept responsibility for her actions. And she really pushed at Richie. When you know someone is volatile... to blatantly verbally come at them is adding fuel to a fire. I found what she said to him to be unnecessary and cruel intentionally.
I think Richie is a mess but he doesn't do that.
Agreed. I do like Sydney outside of this episode, but man she is mean is this one.
And her flaw is impatience and some of her ego, but girl step up!