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The Bear: Fishes (2023)
I need a cigarette
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.
Black Mirror: Mazey Day (2023)
Watch it high
It's art. It's like the vampire episode of The X-Files (Bad Blood, S05E12), and if you can't appreciate why that's an absolute triumph of televisiöne, then you'd better prepare to withstand the withering disdain of mother (Dr Dana Katherine Scully, MD).
Anyway, I really like how in the beginning you're like "you are making bad choices, Bo", but by the end it's more like "haha shoot her yourself you bussy lil pitch", lol.
I have so much more to say about this stellar episode, but all I can think about now is how he talks loudly on his phone about his dog is loose. Minimum character limit met.
Fleishman Is in Trouble: Me-Time (2022)
The episode I've been waiting for!
I've been enjoying the season just fine, but was dying to find out what Rachel's deal was... this episode showed us her experiences and perspective, and unpacked some of the trauma she's endured that makes her that way she is.
Friends of mine gave up a few episodes ago, but if you're at all interested in the characters or storyline, hold on and give this episode a chance to show you what's been missing! It feels like the show just really came to life.
I've seen a couple of reviews saying Claire Danes is miscast - I could understand feeling that way almost all the way up until this ep. I'd even believe they cast her purely for this episode! Here, she's finally given the space to show the range she's capable of bringing to any role, and honestly, idk how anyone could watch her pain and not cry with her.
I reckon this is a kinda weird show, but in a great way. At first glance it seems like nothing new, but to me, there's something about it that has me quietly thinking about it throughout the week... None of the characters are broadly relatable to me, but a lot of their smaller moments of pain, joy, confusion, and detachment are-there's something very endearingly human in the writing & dialogue.
Keen to see where it's all going!