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  1. Maybe some of the people who got exploded knew too much about something that a sheriff's department gang member didn't want them testifying about
  2. Big Noon wants its McAfee
  3. Had to miss this one, but yikes
  4. Does anyone actually believe Epstein got his money legitimately
  5. chainsaw

    Emmy 2025

    White Lotus is much funnier than The Bear
  6. that's only for poors
  7. All the reviews?
  8. It was the weakest season.
  9. I agree it was the weakest season. The doomsday clock felt very contrived, even more so than The Food Critic device of S3. Tina was completely sidelined by the "cook-a da pasta fasta" arc which is kind of an insulting thing to do to an Emmy winner, and it didn't even make any narrative sense. She was too slow until she wasn't. That's it? They don't show us how she got faster or why. Just, she talked to some foreign dude (working for no pay by the way) and it magically helped her get faster. Wow, what a story. Syd's arc about choosing where to go was not interesting at all, and if it hadn't been for the mini-arc surrounding her Dad's brush with death, I would even say her character was an overall liability to the show's quality. Just a complete waste of Ayo's talents. Every other minor character was either Flanderized or window dressing, a tell tale sign of a writer's room that has no idea what it wants to do anymore or how to do it. Carmy's relationship with his mom and revealing that he'd gone to the funeral, that was better storytelling and could not have been acted better but at the same time I don't feel like it had the impact on me that it was supposed to have. I think part of the reason why is that this was a ten episode season that really could have been done in six. Lots of filler scenes, lots of characters just sort of staring at each other, lots of lectures. So all that sizzle ended up diluting the steak, so to speak. It felt like they overdid those callbacks, fan services, and vamping tactics to the point where the tactics themselves stopped working as effectively and their overuse detracted from the parts of S4 that didn't need to be covered up with extra seasoning. In spite of all those criticisms, The Bear remains a very good show and I don't regret watching Season 4. I didn't hate the Syd episode as much as some other posters seemed to have hated it, but I agree that the Wedding episode was by far and away the best one, although getting JLC, Brie Larson, and Odenkirk on loan is a bit of a cheat code in an episode that already has Oliver Platt, Josh Hartnett (very underrated in this show), and John Mulaney. Also loved Rob Reiner and the franchising arc. Holds a lot of promise for S5.
  10. I think Minix is currently on a 2-Way
  11. Newsom should disregard these impostors
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