Ice Chips

Jamie Lee Curtis gets better as time goes on. All of the actors convey their feelings and expressions so perfectly, that I was getting emotional over soemthing I've never been through personally.

I love this show and how it's not afraid to take chances by doing things differently. This episode reminds me of the fly episode of breaking bad (which was shot for budgetary reasons), but ended up being one of the best of the series.

Last season's Christmas flashback episode is still probably my favorite of The Bear but this is a very close second to give it a run for its money. Thank you to everyone at The Bear for such a wonderful show.

How many times have we seen childbirth depicted in movies and TV series? A hundred? More? Less? There was always something that wasn't quite right about how childbirth was shown on screen. This episode FINALLY got it right. Jamie Lee Curtis and Abby Elliott hit all the right notes. Going through labor is an experience that most women can tell you every detail about what transpired to them. It is the most personal of times and yet, there is universal emotion that is shared by almost all. Thanks to "The Bear" for showing a slice of our lives that is full of joy and the best of memories (and well as a whole bunch of physical pain that we mostly forget about).

I cannot get over the fact how brilliant Jamie Lee Curtis is as Donna in The Bear. Her performance is truly nothing but spectacular. So rough, so real, yet so vulnerable at the same time, so emotional.

She already set the bar high in season 2, but man, her work in this episode is exceptional. I caught myself forgetting it was Jamie Lee Curtis whom I was watching, despite her face which we are all very familiar with. All I saw was Donna. That's how great she is. She is just 100% believable.

So whoever needs to hear this, Emmys or whatever: Give her all the awards you have.

She absolutely deserves them.

Then you would know. Then you'd know the need to love her and the need to pull away from her, and how that drives Natalie and drives Carmy and drive Ritchie. This show is about food, yes, and as a foodie who made it to Noma twice in the past year, I adore that aspect. But more importantly, it's about people, a character study, of mostly deeply damaged people, many dysfunctional, whose need for this restaurant to succeed mirrors their need to rise above their own hauntings. Carmy's need for perfection, Natalie's need to rewrite her own origin story through her marriage and child, Michael's desire to create the work family to fix the family family. It's not a comedy, but it elicits a bitter laugh.

This show isn't about the kitchen, it's about the people who run it. Someday you are going to be a dad or a mom and you are going to feel what she was feeling if you are from a dysfunctional family and how much you want your child to not grow in such an environment. You will freak out because you will feel you will be never enough for your daughter or your son because your mother wasn't there for you in your tough times and how much it will hurt. There is a line and it isn't a spoiler "he did not wanted to come out". I was bawling my eyes out and when that line was spoken. Obviously there will be people who are complaining or say it's boring, for me this episode was everything I want the bear show to be, it's a study about humans not the kitchen!