So I got to the end of this first season, performances and directing are outstanding. Hence the 5 Stars: I don't rewatch anything I rate under 6 stars, so this gets all the Stars up to that point.
But there were a few too many things that are just difficult to believe:
1 - A struggling sandwich restaurant that opens at three in the afternoon.
2 - The note that remained hidden despite Carmy instituting deep cleans since his takeover
3 - and then the tinned tomatoes...
3a - I see folk focusing on the difficulty of resealing aluminum tins; this is a fair complaint.
3b - I see folk asking, 'why stash the money when debt is an issue?'; also fair, but I've worked in restaurants that struggled and suddenly the card machine is 'out of order' so they can take in cash to keep going instead of the money going into the bank and disappearing to pay the creditors
But dammit, 3C, my own complaint: How I am I supposed to believe that a struggling ITALIAN restaurant left crates of tinned tomatoes on the shelf for MONTHS because Carmy prefferred the larger tins?!
It doesn't happen, everything is taken down to the wire and gets used.
The asinine explainer in the season 2 opening closed off any ideas I might have had about Mikey and some nefarious enterprise to make the story interesting. The show remains a tale of grieving, entirely about how people feel, not how they work.
I continue watching it for the characters, but I try to check my brain at the door as far as character choices and plot points go.
But there were a few too many things that are just difficult to believe:
1 - A struggling sandwich restaurant that opens at three in the afternoon.
2 - The note that remained hidden despite Carmy instituting deep cleans since his takeover
3 - and then the tinned tomatoes...
3a - I see folk focusing on the difficulty of resealing aluminum tins; this is a fair complaint.
3b - I see folk asking, 'why stash the money when debt is an issue?'; also fair, but I've worked in restaurants that struggled and suddenly the card machine is 'out of order' so they can take in cash to keep going instead of the money going into the bank and disappearing to pay the creditors
But dammit, 3C, my own complaint: How I am I supposed to believe that a struggling ITALIAN restaurant left crates of tinned tomatoes on the shelf for MONTHS because Carmy prefferred the larger tins?!
It doesn't happen, everything is taken down to the wire and gets used.
The asinine explainer in the season 2 opening closed off any ideas I might have had about Mikey and some nefarious enterprise to make the story interesting. The show remains a tale of grieving, entirely about how people feel, not how they work.
I continue watching it for the characters, but I try to check my brain at the door as far as character choices and plot points go.