Television - The Ween Speaks (Page 2)

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Mission UnBearable #7

Season 4, Episode 7: “Bears” This family wedding reception-themed episode was fully one entire hour long, but it felt as long as a family wedding reception actually is. It attempted to repeat the success of Season 2’s “Fishes”, which was one hour long and stuffed with family-playing guest stars.

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Mission UnBearable #6

Season 4, Episode 6: “Sophie” I know what this show has come to remind me of. I couldn’t think of it for a long time, but now I know. It reminds me of the TV scripts I used to write in 8th grade that were about thinly-veiled versions of

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Mission UnBearable #5

Season 4, Episode 5: “Replicants” This episode was a collection of random scenes stuffed into a pillowcase. And the pillowcase has insufferable taste in music. I resisted writing this review. I dreaded writing this review. I struggled internally about how to make this review entertaining, let alone informative. I guess

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Mission UnBearable #4

Season 4, Episode 4: “Worms” And then Bear stocks went back up again! I can’t take this kind of rollercoaster ride; I fully do not like rollercoasters. But I cannot deny that this was a charming episode. Critical to its charm is that it was all about Syd, a

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Mission UnBearable #3

Season 4 Episode 3: “Scallop” Television giveth, and mercilessly television taketh away. This episode opened with an extended montage of Syd cooking and plating a scallop under soft bisexual lighting while an irritating licensed song played. It continued, ad infinitum, until Carmy tasted the scallop and declared it perfect. This

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Mission UnBearable #2

Season 4 Episode 2: “Soubise” This episode was markedly better than the premiere. There appeared on the horizon development, conflict, and growth. When Carmy made not one but two forward movements in his self-direction, I gasped aloud. We may still win this one. The core events of this installment surround

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Mission UnBearable #1

Season 4 Episode 1: “Groundhogs” Unfortunately, since reviewing the 2025 Best Novel Hugo nominees, I’ve become addicted to negativity. For that reason, I’m introducing a new 10-part limited series here on the blog: Mission UnBearable, an episode-by-episode review of the new (final?) season of The Bear. You might

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Intersections in Real Life

Back when I had my Cohost blog, I wrote a post about the Babylon 5 episode “Intersections in Real Time”. This is one of my favorite episodes of B5 and, in my opinion, some of B5 creator J. Michael Straczynski’s strongest writing ever. A total format shift and one