Brilliant television. I see some reviewers describing the Berzatto family Christmas as over the top, unrealistic, contrived etc and all I'm thinking about that is "maybe you're just lucky".
For the rest of us who grew up with addiction, mental illness, enmeshment and violence - it's not an unusual scenario. In my family it was always Christmas and trips to the airport: events where everyone's sh¡t bubbles to the surface and boils over. The straw that breaks the camel's back. When you're functioning on such high levels of stress all the time, it doesn't take much for things to erupt.
Thankfully we've never had cars driven through walls, but absolutely the rest of it.
The Storers know what they're doing and they do it damn well - there's not an inch of this show that they don't live & breathe, and it really comes through. The performances of the entire cast are top notch, as is the dialogue, editing- all of it. Also Carmy dissociating in the last moments of the episode really made me need a cigarette lol.
I really felt this whole episode, and am grateful to the Storers for bringing us The Bear. It slaps.
For the rest of us who grew up with addiction, mental illness, enmeshment and violence - it's not an unusual scenario. In my family it was always Christmas and trips to the airport: events where everyone's sh¡t bubbles to the surface and boils over. The straw that breaks the camel's back. When you're functioning on such high levels of stress all the time, it doesn't take much for things to erupt.
Thankfully we've never had cars driven through walls, but absolutely the rest of it.
The Storers know what they're doing and they do it damn well - there's not an inch of this show that they don't live & breathe, and it really comes through. The performances of the entire cast are top notch, as is the dialogue, editing- all of it. Also Carmy dissociating in the last moments of the episode really made me need a cigarette lol.
I really felt this whole episode, and am grateful to the Storers for bringing us The Bear. It slaps.