The Bear

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Re: Chicago soundtrack.

You do get Wilco, Andrew Bird, Serengeti and Mavis Staples. Might not be the Chi town everyone on here loves but pretty iconic Chicago music.

I do think someone needs to email their music editor and tell them that placing Tortoise on a show would be shooting fish in a barrel and we'd all be better for it.

Edit: oh shit when you email tell them that after an emotional scene where Carmy throws a ten gallon of tomato sauce into the walk in and storms out to put on "Treason" by Naked Raygun.

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Gramsci wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 2:19 am I agree on season two having a different tone. To me it was better and worse at the same time. I thought they dropped the ball on Carmy but upped the game on the others. Richy worked I thought, as they kind of slow burned his inner life from episode 1.

One thing I think the show messes up is the music. A bit of Wilco… make Chicago music The Thing. You could have easy swapped out New Noise for a TJL tune. Every time Pearl Jam kicked off it really grated. They tried to make music a character in the show, but fucking REM… I realise there’s an inbuilt bias here but Chicago alternative and jazz as a “character” would have been so easy.
Yet, very believable (Pearl Jam) as being the musical taste of a cook, or any white middle class food service or retail worker I’ve met.

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Dan Sullivan, Chicagoan, who played with Songs:Ohia for a time and put out ace records as Nad Navillus, and is currently spanking his plan in Arriver, has become a great carpenter, with some really interesting furniture design.

Story goes something like he got the call asking about supplying something for season 2 of The Bear, and when he explained he doesn't do props, they were like 'no, we want to commission you to fit out a full restaurant', which was pretty awesome. Nice to see them giving business locally.

Also does a mean line in guitars now.

https://www.navillusguitars.com/
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The best parts of the show are the parts that aren't driving a plot at all but just letting the characters get more flushed out. Sugar has weirdly become one of my favorite characters. I kinda wish they would get rid of the tweedle dee / tweedle dum combo cause they are loud and annoying and serve zero function, for whatever reason they get more screen time than anyone else on the show. It's a good show but it feels like it should be wrapping it up sooner than later, I smell a shark and they are all poised to jump.
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