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This Bad-Vibes-TV Moment Needs to End July 29, 2024
First came a 40-minute, mostly wordless episode of television that seemed designed to replicate a character’s traumatized, fracturing psyche. Second: a courtroom procedural punctuated with bizarre dream sequences and misleading fantasies. Then a pres...
Haliey Welch, Our “Hawk Tuah” Girl of the Year July 18, 2024
In the sweltering heat of a Nashville summer, a 21-year-old woman named Haliey Welch uttered two words that would change her life: "hawk tuah."The phrase, delivered with a twangy Southern drawl as part of a crude joke about oral sex, ricocheted acros...
The Law-Respecting Lawlessness of 'Bikeriders' July 10, 2024
Jeff Nichols is a strange director. He makes movies about the forgotten Americans, the white working and lower classes of the Midwest, but it’s only European festivals that really take an interest. His protagonists are invariably men, yet it’s the fe...
Why 'The Bear' Is So Hard to Watch July 09, 2024
For all the time The Bear spends gazing at its protagonist, Jeremy Allen White’s seraphic, tormented chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, I’m hard-pressed to say what its third season has imparted about him that we didn’t already know. Where the show once o...
Chefs Make Us Eat Their Inner Lives July 04, 2024
I am a restaurant critic, and in 2018, I ate at what had just been named the best restaurant in the world. Osteria Francescana, in Modena, is run by the famous chef Massimo Bottura, and to dine there feels like eating his internal life. His memory of...
‘The Bear’ Remains Irresistible July 02, 2024
The summer of 2022 gave us the debut season of House of the Dragon, the final season of Better Call Saul, and the third season of The Boys, but while those shows arrived with plenty of fanfare, a dramedy about the ins and outs of a professional kitch...
'The Bear' Is Not a Good Show June 28, 2024
The late war criminal Henry Kissinger is purported to have once said: “The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.” It’s a great quote in spite of the source, and in recent years I’ve found myself t...
Everything You Need to Know About FX’s ‘The Bear’ June 27, 2024
The below contains plot details from Seasons 1 and 2.There’s a little show returning to Hulu this summer called The Bear. After debuting in 2022, it’s about to enter its third season and it’s getting a lot of buzz. Don’t want to be left out to the “d...
How ‘The Bear’ Turned Chefs Into Sex Symbols June 27, 2024
When Luis Fayad added a job title—executive chef—to his Hinge and Tinder profiles, his dating game skyrocketed. Once “out” as a chef on the apps, he started matching with plenty of women who asked him to cook for them on first dates and let them into...
The Bear: A Perfect Drama for the Biden Era June 26, 2024
Tomorrow’s menu of television broadcast will deliver an onslaught of anger, argument and forceful articulation of two distinct visions of America’s future. No, not the presidential debate on CNN, but the season three of The Bear, on Hulu. For The Bea...
“The Bikeriders” Lends a Wild Bunch a Mythic Grandeur June 21, 2024
Authenticity is a feeling and investigative fervor is an attitude. The Italian neorealist classics bear the marks of the journalistic research on which they rely, but journalists rarely feature in the action. The whole truth of even an instant is vas...
