The Bear season 2 should have been a weekly release
FX missed the opportunity to present The Bear's new season like the delicate multi-course meal it is
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A major flaw of The Bear’s second season, through no fault of its own, is that every episode dropped at once. FX served it up like microwavable mac and cheese when it should’ve been gradually simmering on our TV for several weeks. The 10 new episodes of the show that was last year’s breakout comedy (and The A.V. Club’s top series of 2022) are sensational. Each one deserved the kind of breathing room and chatter that episodes from shows like Succession, Barry, Yellowjackets, Poker Face, Ted Lasso, and The Last Of Us have enjoyed this year. Oh, and none of those shows are airing right now, which means The Bear could’ve worn the viewership crown all summer.
It’s not like dropping the episodes all together stops anyone from savoring the show over time (for the sake of your mental health, dear reader, let’s hope that’s the path you chose). But because our binge brain is broken, and because everyone is rightfully talking about the show, chances are that many viewers will be cramming in as many episodes as they can right away. Also, FX’s decision not to stretch out the show’s success is confounding. Releasing all episodes in one go for The Bear’s debut season was understandable. Since then, however, Christopher Storer’s comedy has picked up steam and multiple awards as it evolved into one of this year’s most anticipated returns. And does the new season ever deliver.
The Bear is visually scrumptious, emotionally catastrophic, and darkly riotous. It’s more meditative in season two, focusing on the supporting characters, kicking off a new Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) romance, traipsing around Copenhagen, and offering an enthralling arc for Richie (Ebon-Moss Bachrach, who just walked AVC through episode seven,“Forks”). But the stressful situations persist. Look at episode six, which feels like watching a volcano erupt in slow motion. Okay, let’s stick to cooking references. It feels like a pressure cooker that takes 45 minutes to blow up. Each line of dialogue, furtive glance, and performance is worth dissecting like we did “Connor’s Wedding” on Succession. Who couldn’t have used a week to process The Bear’s triggering “Fishes” episode and its multiple cameos? Instead, the appearances were spoiled online immediately, no matter when you pressed play.
Other FX (and FX on Hulu) originals benefit from weekly releases, allowing the shows to spark conversations, like What We Do In The Shadows, Reservation Dogs, Fleishman Is In Trouble, Under The Banner Of Heaven, and The Patient. So it’s bizarre to see The Bear, which is likely to score a pile of Emmy nominations this year, fail to capitalize on that rollout. It’s not like fans weren’t hungry for show. According to FX and Hulu, season two saw a 70 percent increase in total hours streamed in four days post-release compared to season one. FX didn’t reveal the exact numbers—you really can’t trust streaming services much these days, huh?—but it did claim that The Bear was the most-watched single season of a comedy series in the network’s history. This surge couldn’t have been a surprise, right?
The Bear’s second season would’ve undoubtedly received nonstop coverage and social conversations if the episodes had been rolled out one by one. Richie crooning to “Love Story,” Will Poulter’s tattooed arms, and Tina’s (Lisa Cólon-Zayas) beautiful karaoke scene are already emerging as favorite moments. Sydney’s (Ayo Edebiri) evocative food journey in episode three and Joanna Calo’s perceptive direction of her mindset deserve their spotlight. Episode five, which follows Carmy opening himself up to Claire (Molly Gordon), is equally captivating—even if it kickstarts the Carmy/Claire vs. Carmy/Syd shipping debate. (Why bother with this when Syd and Marcus exist?) Episode seven, “Forks,” is another instant-classic installment, one that finally shows Richie growing and features an MVP turn from Bachrach.
The point is, there’s an incredible amount to unpack in this round of The Bear. There’s the acting, writing, metaphors, cinematography, camerawork, musical choices, casting, and, yes, even the food presentation. (Syd’s hella tempting omelet alone has received quite a bit of coverage, and that moment doesn’t even happen until the very end of the season.) The appetite for FX’s comedy is high, and the show really deserves to be in the conversation well past our next binge.
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“because our binge brain is broken”Speak for yourself, I’m not even sure how your ‘binge brain’ would get ‘broken’. I still like to be able to sit down and watch a whole season in one or two days. Especially with stuff like Barry, not having to remember what happens week to week makes it a lot easier to pick out themes and remember ‘oh yeah that’s a thing from episode 1′.
I don’t understand what’s stopping anybody from talking about a great show weeks and months later, either. “Fishes” isn’t going to be any less of a masterpiece when the final season of Reservation Dogs drops, right?
Exactly. I’ll mainline the newest season of Stranger Things or whatever and even if my friends don’t we can talk about it later. It’s not like we all watch the newest episode of weekly stuff at the same time anyhow, sometimes I’ll be behind on whatever Star Wars thing is on now or sometimes they will, we can talk about it when everyone is caught up.Like I didn’t catch up on Severance or Ted Lasso until I got a free Apple+ sub with a new iPhone a couple months ago, but now I did watch them so I talk about them with people I know who watched them a year ago or whatever. Not a big deal at all.
I don’t understand what’s stopping anybody from talking about a great show weeks and months later, either.It’s a lot easier to have a conversation about a show when all the participants in the conversation have seen it recently. The longer it’s been, the more the details fade, and conversations end up not being any more in-depth than “yeah I remember it was pretty great, but I can’t remember exactly what happened in which episode… oh yeah, I forgot about that part, because it was six months ago and I’ve watched like fifty other things since then.” Not to mention that if I spent time discussing a show when it came out, I’ve been through processing it already, and I’m less inclined to feel the need to do so way down the road.
Maybe you and everyone you want to talk about shows with has a perfect memory and is excited to talk about, for the Nth time, shows they watched months ago, but I don’t think most people fall into that bucket. Obviously it’s not impossible to talk about a show you watched months ago, but it’s a lot less desirable.
It’s also just a lot less exciting and fulfilling as a binge. Each episode stands out so much more when it has time to marinate and be discussed with specificity, and it really adds a sense of intimacy with a group of characters when you get to have them walk around in your mind across the span of several weeks. The binge structure is just too ephemeral and immediate, and leaves no room for the build-up of anticipation.
I don’t know about others, but very few of my friends IRL watch shows like this, so it’s only online when I can interact with people who enjoy the same style of TV. The Bear and Succession are too much even for my wife to watch, and she likes really good TV, but these have a bit too much screaming and cursing for many to take.
It’s the email, social media etc..that keep popping up with articles that you have to try to avoid. I wanted to finish it up so I could get the takes on what others thought.
Correct. The show is so great that they needed to dig real deep to find something to be negative about. “Hmmm, let’s attack how they released it instead of just appreciating something”
What’s stopping you from waiting until the season is over, and bingeing it then?
I do that a lot of times actually: I didn’t watch Ted Lasso or Barry until their entire runs were done, to name two more recent examples. With stuff like Marvel or Star Wars shows I like to watch them as they come out, I’d prefer if all episodes are dumped at once but they’re not so I cope.
“I didn’t watch Ted Lasso or Barry until their entire runs were done, to name two more recent examples.”
And what did you do when people would discuss the just aired episode? Did you have anyone to discuss the early episodes with when you were binging at the end? (Yes these are very important questions.)
I wouldn’t participate in the conversation. Yep I talked to the people I know who had already watched those shows. They’re important questions but ones that are very easily answered 🙂
What’s to stop you from watching one per week?
Nothing. The joy isn’t watching it once per week. The joy is being able to discuss it with other people and knowing exactly how much they’ve watched. That it becomes communal in a way a binge doesn’t.If something drops on Sunday, most people watch it Sunday. By Tuesday, most anyone interested has caught up. You can discuss it openly. You can be passionate.With a binge drop on Friday, some will watch it all by Monday. Some will watch half. Some will watch two episodes. Some won’t have started yet. You can’t really discuss it well. No one knows where anyone is, so no one wants to get into details or specifics. If they do, some people can’t participate.It entirely removes the social aspect of enjoying a show
lol
See MosquitoControl’s response.I can add that what they describe isn’t hypothetical; it’s exactly what happened for shows on the binge model.
The lack of ability for adults to delay gratification is really wild.
Me too. I’d rather parcel out episodes over a week or two, watching one episode a night. I wish streamers would also realize that there are other options besides “put everything on at once” and releasing once a week. They could release one episode per day, or two episodes a week and that might provide a compromise that works for both crowds. Way back in the day, TV miniseries would air on sequential nights (Roots being the biggest one, I think). Why not try that model?
And the thing is. If you don’t want to binge you do not have to. Just watching it weekly if you like.
Which our author is apparently incapable of doing. Seems odd.
Also, I’m fully capable of watching one episode and stopping. Then another day, maybe I watch another.I’m an adult, I can delay gratification. I don’t understand the complaint our author is making.
“not having to remember what happens week to week”Every single show has a recap nowadays, especially barry.
The recap doesn’t show everything that happened in the past week’s show. Sometimes it shows stuff from many weeks ago. It’s useful for showing a couple scenes that may be important in the current episode, a lot less useful as a reminder of what exactly went on the episode prior.
I 100% agree with this. I realized after day one – when I streamed half the season in one sitting – that I’d overindulged in it, and a lot of the details had gotten all jumbled together in my memory.Would have been nicer to do one episode per week, Succession-style, to savour it.
I agree. I tried to parcel them slowly (2 episodes a day), but that’s still less than a week and it all started to bleed together. Plus, if you’re Hulu, why wouldn’t you want a conversation on the show to last two and half months, as opposed to a week or two, at most. It’s cutting the zeitgeist short and as HBO has shown, people will stick with and talk ad nauseum about great shows week to week. The bingers will cope.
We had planned to ration the episode over a couple of weeks, but ended up mowing through it in three days.
Exactly. I’m convinced that if Yellowjackets had been released all at once, on say Netflix, it would’ve been quickly forgotten, and not been renewed.
Agree. It’s a show that benefits from being watched slowly and probably several times, and binge watching just doesn’t lend itself to savoring in that way.
I’m a fan of releasing 2 (or even 3) eps in the first week and then a week-to-week release. I do like the option of having 2 episodes to watch in the queue. All at once is too much pressure, especially for someone who reads entertainment review sites and those sites feel a need to review every single episode as quickly as possible.
After I finished season 2 on Saturday afternoon, I said now I have to wait another year to watch season 3… but I can go back and watch 1 & 2 whenever I want.The Bear is one show I like to digest in one sitting or enjoy over a week.
I’ve been saying this forever—-I hate the Netflix (and similar streaming services) model of dumping every episode all at once. Its especially irritating when a AAA release like Stranger Things is released — you have to avoid any and all media sites (and twitter/SM sites) on the off chance that somebody is going to spoil the season end, or be further along in the season than you.Not to mention, socially, it kills the “we’re all on the weekly discussion/cliffhanger same page” of things.
I guess it takes practice but once you’re online for a while avoiding spoilers really isn’t that hard.
I mean I grew up as an All My Children addict (I know, I know…) so one of the joys I find with most serialized TV is the anticipation. But I admit I also have the bad habit that if I’m on a TV show or miss the buzz period I often won’t have the drive to watch it again–if there’s just a couple of episodes to catch up on that’s one thing. But 10 episodes, or whatever, mentally is harder for me as it seems like just so much to catch up on (I’m a mess, in other words.)
They experimented with staggering Stranger Things last year and I kinda liked it, but they should just do one episode a week instead of 8 episodes and then a month later the final two.
Nah, I hate weekly releases. I just wait until they’re all released anyways and then binge it over 3 or 4 days. On some shows, I might start binging the week leading up to the last episode but I’m never watching an ep, then waiting a week, then watching another ep, and waiting a week, etc.
I can’t believe people actually love weekly releases. I mean I know Disney and Max love doing that but it’s just to distract from their lack of actual new content (for example, having a couple of months of weekly The Mandalorian eps distracts from the fact if they released it all at once there would barely be any other new content anyone cared about coming out)
I understand the reasoning behind this opinion, though I still marvel at people’s ability to watch more than one or two episodes of anything in a day.In the case of The Bear, taking your time makes total sense. After the Christmas episode where we were introduced to Donna, and Uncle Lee and Mikey’s fork showdown, I needed an hour or so to decompress and regain my faculties.
I don’t watch a heck of a lot of TV in general but when there’s something on that I like I will gladly watch 10 hours of it straight.I’m the guy who plows through a good book in a few hours though, I understand not everyone is built the same as me.
I was going to watch another episode after the Christmas one, but I needed to decompress as my brain and heart were exhausted by what I just saw. So I fired up Peacock and watched an episode of Brooklyn 99 instead.
I can binge something light if I have a day off and nothing going on but even there the max is usually 4 or 5… For a heavier show more than 2 is usually hard.
I do find it funny that I know people who complain about long movies, but will binge 6+ hours of a single tv show (though I know if a show is done well they will rev up the excitement right at the end of each episode…)
(Even though I will stay up all night reading a book…)
There genuinely are a lot of people, I noticed, who consume content on such a regular basis that they don’t need to decompress. They watch a series finale of a riveting show, perhaps even something like Breaking Bad or The Sopranos, then look at the clock and, if it’s not 11 p.m. yet, wonder how to fill the void of time until they go to sleep. So yeah, they throw on a couple of episodes of Never Have I Ever after having just finished Better Call Saul, because the alternative is sitting alone with your thoughts or Instagram Reels for two hours.
I’m open to the conversation. I enjoyed blazing through it in a day and a half, but I think I would have also enjoyed a weekly discussion about each episode. The bigger question here is would they have actually covered it, even just with recaps? Hard to tell these days.
I binged and watched the whole thing over about 4 days. I loved it, but totally agree they should have dropped one or maybe two episodes per week instead. I mean hell, the writers strike is dragging on. What’s the damn rush.
Is it weird to say that while I usually agree, I kind of like the whole season being out at once for The Bear? I haven’t finished it, but I’ve been watching a couple eps at a time, at my own pace, and will probably be done this weekend. And if it’s anything like season 1 I’m in for a couple rewatches, which I’ll space out a lot more reasonably.I don’t quite know how to place it, but I think certain shows lend themselves to a weekly release (watching this past season of Succession was a blast, especially with the cultural ripples certain episodes would make), while others I wish actually dropped all at once (someone in this thread mentioned Barry, the most recent season of which especially would lend itself to a binge). It’s a weird, weebly-wobbly sliding scale, and I don’t think we’d come to a consensus if polled.
Well said. I agree catching up with Carmy, Sydney and all at once (among other points made…especially the sliding scale point). I binged the whole thing in a couple of days. Which…I like to do. Shoot me. Saloni’s (and other commentor’s) points are valid though upon reading. When I first read the headline, I was like…BS! But…I understand better now (especially around the Fishes episode point). I guess dropping all at once would allow people to titrate their viewing if they prefer, and it allows serial (and cereal) bingers like me to watch as they please. If I were one to titrate, it would be hard not to keep watching subsequent episodes of the The Bear in particular since it’s so engrossing. Maybe a compromise that would be okay for people who prefer to binge and for those prefer to titrate and savor would be to release 2 or 3 episodes at routine intervals. I loved this season and loved binging…but to appreciate the full breadth of the material, I will be rewatching the season at least once.
I can’t rewatch Hulu. The ads kill me. It’s just painful.
Do not ever comment, but came here to say I disagree with this take 100000%. There is plenty of conversation going on about the show right now without weekly drops. I would argue more so than if it was once a week. If you don’t have the self discipline to not watch all 10 episodes in a day or two, that’s a you problem, not FX. I’ve never enjoyed a week of television so much in my life than watching S2 of The Bear once a night with a couple double features in there. (6 +7 was one of my top TV nights ever)
Lying down to watch 10 episodes of TV = self discipline?
It completely baffles me why a studio has no interest in conversations and stories about there tv shows when they are clearly good. Look at Succession… the media COULD NOT SHUT UP ABOUT THAT SHOW FOR YEARS! Bear could’ve been that. But now it will be essentially be forgotten in a couple weeks until the next DUMP.
Everything should be weekly. Binge releases are for idiots.
ehhh, maybe but i binged the first season and i binged this one too and loved both experiences. wouldn’t have it any other way.
Exactly. And, if others wish to watch them all in one sitting, that’s great too. I find this whole discussion truly odd. Does nobody have any willpoer, or, frankly, anything else to do?
“Fishes” and “Forks” were fantastic. And the food porn on this show. Holy crap.
Let viewers decide. I hate when media sites write these articles but they almost always mean, “We get more web traffic if we can do weekly stories about the episodes.”
But if one viewer decides to binge it all, and the other watches two episodes, those two can’t discuss. That’s a real detriment to the show. It hurts its ability to become a cultural dialogue.
The reviews/recaps here barely matter any more but when they did, the binge shows never had many comments because they could never figure out the pace to put up reviews. If they’re all at once people would only comment on the first or last episodes and if it’s spaced out they aren’t going to be at pace with viewers.Honestly I don’t think this really matters for most shows. I mean, I love “The Great” but I don’t think there are enough people watching for it to matter if it’s week to week or not. But I do think big “event” shows like Succession or White Lotus are best served week to week. It enables discussions about it online and IRL and I think a cliffhanger means more if you have some anticipation before seeing it resolved.
Good point–I remember them trying a few techniques with the binge dump shows–one a day, sometimes two at different times of the day, etc–for longer binges it honestly got hard to try to match the pace…
I mean , they’ll still drag coverage of it for three months anyway.
I find it odd that adults cannot decide ‘I’ll just watch one of these tonight’.
“They should have released it a week at a time…because that’s how I wanted them to do it”I’m baffled that they didn’t just air this on FX linear, particularly since this is likely the beginning of a long sparse summer for scripted tv, but I’m always happy to be able to watch a show on my terms.“But you have to binge it or you’ll see spoilers!” Maybe. Those of us who wait to watch a series until multiple episodes have aired have been dealing with this as long as there’s been DVRs. Everyone has a struggle.
“I’m baffled that they didn’t just air this on FX linear”
I don’t fully understand the reasoning, but for a while now it seems like FX has released all their buzzy shows to FX on Hulu…
Not all. Mayans and The Old Man are happily on FX. Devs and Fleishman I can sort of see, because I would guess they’re more ‘prestige’ television that probably isn’t going to get huge ratings. They probably thought The Bear would fall into the same bucket, but after it blew up in Season 1, I would have guessed they’d have dropped it on FX.But then, I’m not a brain genius like these streaming guys, so what do I know?
I didn’t think Mayans or The Old Man were “buzzy” but that just is my own limited experience. Has any show before moved from the (ridiculous) FX on Hulu to, umm, regular FX? (Here in Canada they confusingly sometimes do air on regular FX Canada or else on Disney+ where most Hulu stuff goes…)
Personally, I prefer it to be released all at one time. I’m perfectly capable of watching 1-2 episodes at a time and taking a week or two to see the whole season, and I like being able to set my own pace. It’s not that hard to avoid spoilers either, which I’m sure your overlords don’t like because that means less page views on articles.
Indeed. I am baffled that people can’t decide at what rate to watch something.
This is like arguing books should be released in chapters. Do what’s best for you and stop creating mandates for the world.
I agree 100% but fell victim to the binge, but at least stretched it out over 4 days watching and 6 days total. I much rather would have watched it once a week and then had a chance to discuss it and digest it.I will admit that episode 6 took parts of 3 days to complete. I started very late Monday and watched 20 minutes. The next day I picked it up again and made it another 25 before being summoned upstairs…. Finally finished it the next day and felt like I had to take another shower.I have Hulu with ads…it totally sucks but they offered me a 6 month deal at 2.99 per so I can get the Bear and Res Dogs. I’m not sure if there is enough to watch to justify 14.99 per. With Netflix, Prime, Apple etc..it’s getting to be death by a 1000 paper cuts.But yes, another vote for S3 to be once a week
If you want to watch them once per week, then watch them once per week. If I want to watch them all at once, I’ll watch them all at once. Seems pretty simple to me.
If you want to watch them all at once, then watch them all at once.If I want to watch them once per week, I’ll watch them once per week.Seems pretty simple to me.
I watched it in 3 days. It was fantastic.But it would have been better with air, like a bottle of wine. Let it breathe.And I’m sure I’d be discussing it more. It’s “you need to watch it,” rather than the more satisfying “did you see it this week? What did you think of XYZ?”
For sure. I have active discussions with my friends about every major show that has weekly releases – Succession, The Last of Us, House of Dragon, Better Call Saul, etc. Shows that all drop at once like Stranger Things and The Bear? The conversation is barely there at all because everyone is watching at different paces and the people who binge and finish early don’t want to talk about a show they watched weeks ago with people who take their time.
Viewers should do whatever they want (some are bingers — not me — some are savorers) but there is no ambiguity that this is just dumb business. Months of continuous attention and press is great for shows with weekly releases — and just as good is the fact that Bear fans can’t churn off the platform after just one month due to the week to week schedule. Especially those who like to be part of the current conversation.It just makes no sense why, when there’s such a long wait for seasons, streamers/networks feel the need to just dump everything for one quick splash of attention, only to go dark again after 2, MAYBE 3 weeks of viewer frenzy. It’s not about having the same amount of attention all at once or spread over multiple weeks. Unambiguously, the slower release model generates exponentially more cultural energy. [Turns off PowerPoint presentation, folds arms.]
The annoying cousin of the one-and-done drop is the 2-episode weekly drop. Always Sunny is doing that and it drives me nuts. It’s not as serialized or complex as The Bear, but why burn off all the episodes so quickly when fans wait with baited breath in the increasingly long interims between seasons? It’s so odd to undercut viewer engagement and excitement — it’s like they’re trying to “get rid” of episodes as fast as they can.
I am hardcore in the “weekly release” camp. I just have way more fun watching each episode weekly than I do with binging shows. This past season of Succession was great, because every episode felt huge. I started watching it in between seasons 3 and 4, and the first three seasons were good, but I never loved it. Watching each episode in the weekly format was fun. Same goes for Barry. The same went for The Good Place back when that one was airing.Also, re: complaints that it means the seasons will take longer to come out. I’m fairly certain it means the first episodes come out earlier than they would have. It’s a tight ship. Netflix releases episodes after all of them are finished. Releasing them weekly means that the earlier, finished episodes can air while they are still working on the later ones.
Thankfully the AV Club didn’t miss an opportunity to find something to nitpick.
I’m glad they dumped it all at once. I had cancelled my Hulu subscription and I only had a couple of days left when it was released. Binged the hell out of it, but, like someone else said, I needed some time to decompress after “Fishes”. That was about the most frenetic hour of TV I’ve seen.
“…the show that was last year’s breakout comedy”
Um, comedy? it had some funny parts, but now that’s what is considered a “comedy?”
Great show, but come on.
Yeah I don’t consider it a comedy at all. I had to take a break in the middle of a few episodes because the anxiety levels and tension were so amped up. A lot of depressing things. The dinner had funny moments in conversation but wasn’t a funny episode.
Have been making a lot of the same points this article is making for a long time – shows that have weekly releases get more press and attention, regardless of relative quality. And if you’re a fan of said show, you should want that to happen so it gets to end on its own terms. I also just don’t get why The Bear got dropped all at once. It’s not normal for FX or for Hulu (HIMYF is weekly episodes as one example) and The Bear is a show that was already wildly popular and sure to bring in weekly audiences.
We enjoyed getting Season 2 all at once. We’re pacing it out nicely, but definitely watched Episode 6 twice before proceeding. I think I would have stayed past Season 2 of Barry if it had dropped at once.
I think this is something a lot of shows are going to end up learning the hard way when they don’t receive the same sorts of long term praise that others shows do.
There is something to be said for the ongoing communal fervor generated by fans consuming a show a week at a time and having public and online discourse about the ebbs and flows of the story. It seems to be hard to build that same fan base when these shows just drop and that’s it. You get a week or two of “Oh wow” and then everybody just moves on.
As someone who no longer subscribes but LOVED S1, I will gladly wait until the series is on sale at Vudu and just buy the whole thing and watch without commercials. I can wait for quality goods.
This is an interesting things because, personally, I hate the concept of binging a show. Even if I had the time to do it I hate consuming something so quickly. But nothing is stopping me from taking my time to watch something, just because all ten episodes of a shows are up doesn’t mean I have to watch all ten right then and there. I understand from an engagement perspective that droppings show at once may not build audiences as well as a weekly show but that isn’t really my concern as a viewer and can’t really effect that anyways
I couldn’t disagree more. I savored each of those courses in two days like a 3 star tasting meal. There’s been plenty of conversation and discussion about the various episodes, the story arc and the guest stars. I assume there will be multiple Emmy and Golden Glob nominations and many articles about the show and those episodes. The show is an emotional roller coaster and has a lot of impact if watched in multiple episodes.
binger’s gonna binge other’s will savorit’s everyone’s choiceand the artistry and pleasure stand alone no matter what…
One of the biggest reasons I pay for streaming services is to not have to wait week to week. I am not a fan of the streamers slowly reverting to archaic network style. It’s not my fault if others can’t regulate how quickly they consume things, or if their social life is so dependent on being scheduled with others. If the majority of things I like on various platforms goes back to weekly, I’ll go back to not subscribing and just pirating it when a season is done. Not a fan of a prolonged keep you subscribed model.If you have a core group of friends and it’s so important agree when to watch it.
I fully agree. The discord I’m on has a Bear thread. No one can have a real discussion about anything because everyone is on a different episode.
Pace yourself. Think about baseball.
They dropped it all at once so they could claim it was the most watched premiere FX has had, which is true because none of their other releases has been bingeable.The truth is, this show isn’t super popular outside of the online bubble, and Season Two was already greenlit. Disney had to pull a fast one to make it seem like this season was even more popular, but no, it’s still a niche show.
This proves my theory. A show or movie could be 100% perfect and someone would still find something to complain about to try and get clicks. Why? Do we need more negativity in our life? Could it be possible that maybe they have a reason for releasing it this way? Do you know everything? Just because all episodes were released simultaneously doesn’t mean you have to watch them that way. Another great thing, and prepare to have your mind blown on this one, is that you don’t have to see spoilers if you don’t want to. Isn’t that crazy? But how? Don’t search the show. Stay off the damn internet. Is it really that hard? No it’s not. But you need clicks and you need to find something to piss and moan about. Thanks for sharing
Please enough with the “love triangle” that Sydney is not in. The only way to take Sydney’s and Carmy’s relationship is brilliant coworkers who respect each other, but nothing more. Not every character needs to be “shipped”. I do feel like she has a thing for Marcus (well, maybe less so after his disastrously ill-timed blow-up at her in the last episode), but it seems like she firmly is against dating people in the workplace, which should be a great rule but might not work out next season.