I wish I had a picture to go with this, but I just figured out why that scene with Carmy showing Sydney his drawings of the menu is so crushing. I mean, Sydney's upset that he worked on the menu with Claire, who Sydney doesn't know, who isn't a chef or even part of the restaurant. And we feel that for her.
But Christopher Storer did something else with that whole line. He didn't share the scenes between Carmy and Claire with the audience. They don't exist. Like Claire they're not real. The pictures, the menu only exists with Sydney with the betrayal she feels by Carmy working on her thing with that girl. But we as a audience missed out too. We don't ever see him draw. That's all in the past or with Claire.
At the same time, the only drawings shown are for the restaurant, the thing Carmy shares with Sydney and the audience. Which doubles down on the effect of both the reveal and the betrayal. It's a fabulous and manipulative use of show vs tell. wow.
ok this needs to be said because i don’t like the framing around this conversation at all.
Carmy has never been truly loved the way he needs to by anyone.
His sister, Sugar, tried and she probably did her best, but she grew up in the same fucked up environment he did. Growing up in abusive home, with an alcoholic mother who had extreme mood swings was not a conducive environment to learn what a good relationship looks like. Carmy really doesn’t have friends, he’s only just starting to make them and he said he’s never had a girlfriend before. Claire—as much of cardboard cutout she might be—is his first experience dating, of course he’s going to be wrapped up completely in her because possibly for the first time in his life he felt wanted.
That doesn’t excuse his behavior, but i don’t like people acting like Carmy is being malicious when in reality he’s acting irrationally because he genuinely does not know any better. When he does know better, Carmy adjusts, he changes so he can be better for those people around him.
He is not perfect, but that’s what makes him interesting and i think these fuckups and failures along the way will lead him to understand what he wants from a relationship and what he can give. He’ll learn where to stand his ground and where to compromise and he’ll find that balance, but we have to let him. Experiencing your first relationship in your 20s when most people experience those things in their teens can make you feel like you’re taking your first steps while everyone else is running a marathon, so just like…give him some grace please
watched the new season today and i just hope these 2 had some gay sex
JEREMY ALLEN WHITE as Carmy Berzatto
THE BEAR (SEASON 2)
trying to make friends who are obsessed with the same ships as you
I know you've done this before but, for me this is our first kiss
I KNOW YOU'VE DONE THIS BEFORE, BUT FOR ME THIS IS OUR FIRST KISS.
We were friends before, for a long time. Even when we had secret feelings for each other, we shoved them down. We’d still be in each other’s lives. We’d manage.
I can never like anything in moderation. everything i’m into takes up all of my brain for months at a time at a debilitating rate
the scene of ben finding out devi didn't get into any colleges is so important to me. everyone in her life is trying to tell her that it's gonna be okay, to not stress out, that she can apply to princeton again next fall.
and here's benjamin saying no. that's awful. i understand how you feel. i'd want to be put in a medically induced coma if it happened to me (lol). he once again gives her space to be vulnerable, to let herself feel all of the emotions.
just be yourself david.
because they are both these little balls of energy and anxiety until they are together and calm each other down. the red and blue color theory of it all, etc.
TMP 3x12 | TSLOCG 2X4 | NHIE 4x10
