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The reason the Faks are so great is because people like that are real and are everywhere in the restaurant business. It’s not just comic relief, it’s actually extreme realism.

 

Him pouring the broth, then walking off was easily the biggest laugh of the season to me.

 

That scene killed me. He DID technically pour it!

 

Imagine taking yourself so seriously that you don’t find the Fak’s funny.

 

I mean, even during the great fingernail chew-off of Seven Fishes, they still gave our blood pressure some relief with their baseball card scheme. God bless them.

 

Point me in the direction of who disrespected the Faks

 

The 10 minute scene in the finale of the roundtable talking about how great they are to be chefs was a little self congratulatory and over the top. Especially Guidara placing himself front and center for 75% of it.

The standalone episodes are the cream of the crop which takes away from the narrative driven episodes this season for me, but I still loved it and love being with the characters

 

Which makes it also incredibly accurate for the way most chefs at this level present themselves.

 

Well sure, but it was presented without any level of reflection on the industry outside of the Joel McHale character being an asshole. Unless you think that entire 10 minute scene in a 40 minute finale was some sort of meta analysis on their egos utilizing the actual writer and real chefs.

 

I guess the question is what is the show?

Is it just a love letter to elite gastronomy or is there some reflection on the industry and it's issues?

I haven't read enough interviews with the creators to answer that, you may have

 

No that’s fair and probably a different conversation. All I was saying was I didn’t need roughly a third of a season finale to be based around a bunch of chefs and the EMP guy sitting around telling each other how great they are is all. It’s a tv show, give us some narrative

 

I know and I enjoyed his book. It’s a minor complaint to the season so I don’t want to derail the thread, just my thoughts

 

I think most of it is in service if Carmy's story and his experiences and the people he looks up to. How that has shaped him and maybe what kind of leader he wants to be. That's how I took it anyway. I'm not sure it's really trying to say anything about the industry. Just present it as accurately as possible I guess.

 

This is where I’m at. They clearly want to be a show that “says something” but dodge around it. But you probably don’t get a sick 5 minute clip of Keller trussing a chicken and talking about his philosophy if you shit all over the industry lol

 

Finally catching up on this one, not quite done with season 3 yet… but I don’t love it after such a great season 2. Feels like way too much reliance on heavy flashbacks and way too much Fak. They are funny, I like them, but it’s too much when this is a 10 episode, 30+ minutes apiece season. Just not a lot of forward momentum with any character this season(Marcus getting largely sidelined doesn’t help, Syds arc is dumb, and Carmy is in a state of complete stasis).

After complaining about the flashbacks I still have to say watching Bernthal on the show might be the best, it hits hard and he just kills it.

 

One of my favorite funny parts. Carmy’s out back just spraying shit. Unc comes up and asks, “what are you doing? Just spraying shit?” Carm responds, “yeah, I’m just spraying shit.”

 

The message of Season 3 is quitting smoking makes you bad at your job

 

Season 4 should be a Fak family spin off

 

meet me outside Alinea we're throwing hands

 

Definitely need a Fak focused episode.

 

only if you got a table

 

If that limits the Fak time in the rest of the episodes I’m for it

 

I'm mostly being facetious. A bonus episode at like a Fak family reunion could be gold though.

 

Achatz getting annoyed at Coulter’s questions was fantastic

 

Probably pretty accurate. Young dudes trying to soak up everything they can and the older guys wanting to talk about anything other than work.

 

So was doing a rewatch of season 3 and something I had kind of forgot about was Richie spotting the fork on the ground. Supposedly that has always been a thing Michelin judges do when they are checking out a restaurant. I can't thinkg of another reason they would have really focused in on that fork other for it to be a hint towards that.

 

I’m glad this isn’t just me who felt this

 

Also Napkins is a top three episode in another wise meh season through 6 eps

 

Started recently and now on season 2. SMH at giving Claire a fake number.

 

Got damn the family Christmas scene has me stressing.

 

Make sure to hit play next once it’s done

 

Thought I was waffling on this show after the first two episodes. A couple more and I thought it was back on track. But John Cena stunt casting in ep 5 pretty much confirmed my suspicion. I'll finish it, I guess.

 

You’re so cool

 

Sounds like you should’ve stayed up and watched Napkins before posting this

 

Oh no, the show is sometimes fun, must be terrible.

 

I think the only episode I outright didn't like is the one with Carm and Richie just arguing the entire time. I was hoping for some more character growth out of them this season but both sort of seem to take a step back.

 

Season sucked. It's alright to admit it, everyone needs to calm down.

 

Yep. Easily the worst of the three seasons. They could have packed the entire season into two episodes and actually progressed the story.

 

pretty clear their intent was not to further the story, but rather give us slice of life vignettes. i enjoyed the season for what it was and hope S4 is more like S1 or S2. Really hated ice chips and liked napkins, the rest were closer to the latter than the former ...

 

thought Ice Chips was the best of the season.

 

Just finished it. That was a really good episode.

 

Just keep going to back to feeling like this season was a heat check from the writers (and everyone?). Ep1 for example should’ve been like midseason but they set the tone from the start they were going way over the top with the artistry/vibes and just forgot all about character progression.

Such a shame. With HOTD being a season long trailer too I got way overhyped for both shows.