where nobody does anything but work, and pretty much nobody has anything to show for it.
this description says a lot without actually saying a lot
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- Aug 2022
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Their customers are like kids stuck in a car with warring parents
i love this simile!
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The place is unfixable.
the conclusion was a bit rushed. I dont think all the points were summed up succinctly
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The notion that hustle will eventually pay off is an insidious pipe dream.
love this sentence - wish it was in the first paragraph
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Covid.
i think covid's impact on the issues should have been introduced a lot earlier since that is a major factor in both the work conditions in the show and real life
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narcissists
interesting word choice here
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“The Bear” is compelling not because of how it recreates a kitchen but because it captures something about modern work in general.
i feel this this shift in connecting "the bear" the the modern work environment is a bit abrupt. I wish the writer fleshed out all the issues depicted in the show a bit more before making this argument
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Twenty-two years ago, when Anthony Bourdain published “Kitchen Confidential,” he glamorized the kitchen as a kind of foxhole, populated by wild, dysfunctional hard-asses yelling profanities at one another while managing to crank out hundreds of plates every night.
great example to tie in the the writer's argument
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recognize the chaos, panic and precarity the show captures so convincingly. In “The Bear,” work is a dumb, sadistic game that has left Carmy with unchecked PTSD. Intrusive thoughts and flashbacks fracture his consciousness; he even cooks in his sleep, almost setting his house on fire.
vivid descriptions - i have never watched the show but i can picture what the writer is talking about
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avuncular coots
no idea what this means
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the site of his connection to his family as well as his estrangement from it
interesting contrast here
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ood was the thread that connected him to his brother, but his brother wouldn’t let him in the kitchen,
love this phrasing
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Of all American cities, Chicago is the one whose mythos is most closely associated with a particular kind of work: honest, meaty, broad-shouldered labor that forges you into something bigger, nobler.
This is an interesting claim, as someone from there I'm not sure I agree
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