OT: “The Bear” episode 7
20 just brutal minutes, done in one shot, on the 5th take.
But stuck with me was the intro. Lin Brehmer over footage of the city waking up… just a knife to the heart if you lived there in your twenties.
From the Vulture review:
“Review” opens with a voice-over from Lin Brehmer, the longtime morning host of the alt-rock station in Chicago, WXRT. It’s hard to explain WXRT if you haven’t heard it, but it’s an unholy blend of ’90s Chicago heyday stuff (Smashing Pumpkins, Local H), modern indie rock that’s not too too out there, and a lot of longtime personalities like Brehmer. They support local bands fiercely, they’re always at shows, and people have listened to Brehmer every day for the better part of their entire adult lives. He’s florid and effusive, like in this intro where he talks about “Christmas Unicorn” Sufjan Stevens, but if you’re into it, you love him.
The same can be said for Chicago as a whole, which Brehmer introduces with Stevens’s cut. The Bear aims to celebrate the city with an opening montage that uses a mix of archival footage and B-roll shots out on the town, giving the unfamiliar a glimpse of what life in Chicago is like. Yes, there’s a big beanlike statue down in Millennium Park or whatever, but life in Chicago is actually about neighborhoods and buses, pizza from Pequod’s (not Uno’s), and a brisk dash along the el tracks in the morning on the way to work.
here's the clip
Oh it killed me, so much 20s nostalgia
by Regular Joseph 
, Friday, February 17, 2023, 14:09 (1215 days ago) @ Jay
That intro wasn't pitch perfect but WXRT and the L and Obama and Blagojevich it was close enough. What I loved was the lighting.
I will never forget the first time I went to LA. Late 20s for someone's wedding. I was mostly by myself so kinda reflective and I was struck by the light. The orange /brown glow of LA looks exactly like a thousand TV shows, the Rockford Files or a Haim music video. I just had this realization that it wasn't sepia toned TV but just the way the light actually is in LA.
These shots of Chicago have the honest blue gray light. Those aren't stage shots with the right filter. It's real and it hits.
I loved that show, but can we all agree
the ending made no sense? Like, at all?
what happened at the end again?
He closed the shop, right?
The thing with the money
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It was set up in the first episode, right?
I don't recall exactly, but I remember a discussion about whether Mikey preferred the big or small tomato cans.
I'm not sure why Mikey would have been squirreling away cash instead of paying creditors both legitimate and illegitimate, though. Maybe he planned on blowing it up and starting over w Carmy.
(EDIT - also don't they still owe all the $ to Cicero? does this just bring them back to even? How are they gonna completely renovate?)
This was the obvious plot hole
by ndbk32 , Los Angeles, Friday, February 17, 2023, 13:05 (1215 days ago) @ MattG
They still owe the money to Uncle Jimmy, so it gets them back to even, not enough to open a new restaurant. But it's so obvious, the writers had to have already planned for it.
One possibility is Carmy takes it to Jimmy and says he can have it, or he can roll it over and stake a new restaurant, which also serves to keep Jimmy involved (good for us the audience, but not Carmy).
Another option is starting S2 by showing what Carmy did with the money immediately after finding it. Maybe he took it to the casino and put it all on red. Who the fuck knows, but the writers can play around with ways they multiplied the money off-screen.
The meta problem with it
Is nobody in the writer's room said, maybe we shouldn't go with "There's always money in the tomato cans" after "There's always money in the banana stand."
Kind of made the whole show absurd, merits here and there aside.
![[image]](https://i0.wp.com/www.bitchesgetriches.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/theres-always-money-in-the-banana-stand.gif?fit=500%2C229&ssl=1)
One of the creators explained it in an interview
by Jason93 , Raining debris all over Europe, Friday, February 17, 2023, 12:27 (1215 days ago) @ MattG
They could have made it clearer, for sure.
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I think the children like it when I "get down" verbally.