About to watch this based on the following recommendation.
Frank Ostaseski has accompanied over 1,000 people as they died in a hospice, and in this, he distills what lessons the dying — and death — have taught him. Their wisdom is deep, complex, potent, intimate, and unexpected (not cliche). It will shift your relationship to life. Listening (or watching the video) will be one of the best hours in your life."
For me the big flaw with this third series (bar the pregnancy episode with Jamie Lee Curtis which was incredible) is the failure by the writers to recognise that the appeal of seasons one and two was Carmy’s journey from sandwich place to high end restaurant.
That sort of rags to riches story is kind of done now. There’s nowhere to take it that will have the same levels of dramatic tension.
The focus for me needed to be on other cast members current stories away from The Bear.
The reliance on retrospective storytelling just felt like a victory lap which is kind of boring.
I think you’re right. One other episode to mention was the Tina back story. This had a really great scene when she meets Michael and he offers her a job but there was so much repetition to get to that payoff.
We’ve begun Succesion this weekend, I’d avoided it for a longtime due to working for one of the actors plus it was a victim of what I think of as the Four Weddings and a Titanic syndrome.
Horrified by the first episode and now onto episode 4. Quite something obviously.
A lot of disrespect to furniture and the less said about windows the better.
Yeh that Tina episode was the best of the season for me
Saw that a few weeks ago.
Any good? Got it to watch tonight
Giuseppe (Cinema Paradiso) Tornatore’s documentary Ennio is streaming on Amazon (US) and NowTV (UK). It’s a bit long, but you could do worse than spend nearly three hours in the company of the maestro and you really learn quite a bit about his process and multifaceted talent as an avant-garde composer and creator of some of the most unforgettable film music ever. Towards the end it gets a bit hagiographic but if anyone ever deserved it, he does…
Opps, didn’t see your reply. Thought it was ok, not the best Floyd docu. How about you?
Still to watch!
Mrs J_C and I don’t have a TV and just use an Acer Chromebook which is now no longer getting updates and Netflix no longer works because the browser is out of date.
We’re toying with the idea of getting an Ipad Pro 12.9 inch (the Acer screen is 14) to replace it with. Anyone using one to watch TV/Films? Would a laptop be better? Cheers!
https://x.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1816607972803371009?s=46&t=DVq6TSIiji5s18wAZ6Rr5Q
I think many of us will have been in enough conversations like this to recognise a massive coke head when we see one.
Donny van de Beak
He could be straight out of Succession.
Danny Boyle did it loads better 
(not in a jingoistic way)
Eurovision vibes
Very weird indeed!
I’m being pumelled into submission by the overly dramatic orchestral music. Not in a good way.
It’s pretty boring. Waiting for jean michel jarre to pull off some laser stunt
Think they missed a trick not having the flame atop the Eiffel Tower
