If there’s one thing pop culture fans relish more than the return of a beloved, favorite TV series, it’s the accompanying opportunity to bitch and moan about the show once it’s back.
It’s a familiar path, one so well-traveled by some of the most popular recent television series that, by this point, the phenomenon could be considered a badge of honor: a show that becomes so successful, it falls prey to predictable backlash. Early seasons are so heralded and expectations for new episodes are so high that they become subject to a scrutiny that’s impossible to weather.
That seems to be the case with Season 3 of The Bear, a show that won just about every television award that exists for its first two seasons and, perhaps more impressive and indicative of its universal appeal, was the fact that just about every person I know has, at some point in the last years, stared me in the eyes, almost crazed with adoration, and fawned, “Have you seen The Bear? It’s so good!”
