The third instalment of the award-winning drama doesn't appear to have delivered Reviews of season three of The Bear are starting to come in, and it seems the highly anticipated series has gone downhill. The restaurant drama starring Jeremy Allen White , Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, among others, dished its third course yesterday. After sweeping the Emmys earlier this year, winning Best Comedy series and multiple acting awards, fans are eager to get their teeth into another season.
However, the reviews are starting to pile in, and they’re not all as celebratory as fans might have expected. The season appears to not deliver on full enough story lines, character progression, and seems to largely repeat many of the same, albeit successful, tropes as the previous two seasons. Many critics have noted the use of montage scenes in season three, something which is used in many episodes in the prior seasons.
When pastry chef Marcus visits Copenhagen to refine his dessert-making skills, for example, or when sous chef Syd tests out some of the best food Chicago has to offer. These montages were popular before, however, these new additions don’t seem to have been received quite so well. In a three-star review by The Independent , Nick Hilton wrote: “The third season’s opener is just an ASMR montage of people making ravioli and tweezing edible flowers onto flumes of luminous foam, which serves as an emotional amuse-bouche for the episodes to come.
“It is avant-garde stuff.
