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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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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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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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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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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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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