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So, a few years ago it was Ted Lasso and today the hot show everyone who's anyone watches is The Bear. What a difference! Lasso, its third and final season recently airing, was fun, upbeat and basically a laugh-riot, with some poignant moments sprinkled in. The Bear, its second season just dropped a week ago, is chaotic, depressing and not a bit funny -- full of abject loneliness, a dying parent on life support, chain smoking, suicidal behavior and disturbingly dysfunctional relationships.
Last night my husband and I squirmed through Episode 6 of Season 2 of The Bear, armed with a few Keebler Fudge Stripes to keep us grounded in reality. I could barely watch much of it, choosing instead to concentrate on my cookie, yet several online reviews I read this morning deem the episode "perfect" and praise it to the skies, one calling it the "single best episode ever seen on television." Honestly, this hourlong film makes the miserable family in August: Osage County look like the Brady Bunch.
Basically we are forced to watch the ruthless warring of a family and their hangers-on who have come together, as they do every Christmas Eve, for a big Italian feast. Instead of glad tidings, egg nog and presents tied with pretty red bows there is crying, fighting and literally unbelievable over-the-top chaos, with different family members having either heart-to-heart talks on the side or hysterical screaming matches out in the open, complete with fork-throwing at the dinner table like a bunch of toddlers high on too much sugar.
Jamie Lee Curtis gives a great performance as the manic, alcoholic matriarch, looking old, ugly and psychopathic as she flings tomato sauce all over her tiny kitchen, her claw-like red fingernails dominating every scene. I sincerely hope she was wearing lots of makeup, or else something very bad has happened to her.
Anyway, it was completely ridiculous but we couldn't look away. You know, like at a car wreck, which by the way happens at the very end.
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