The Bear Season 3 Episode 1 'Tomorrow' Premiere REACTION!!

[@Okkotsu86275]

One of my favorite episodes of the entire series. The cinematography and music were just masterfully done.

[@SweetsourGamer]

haha, just noticed that I basically said the same thing you did :P

[@Okkotsu86275]

@@SweetsourGamer Great minds😂😂

[@roykentseyebrows4196]

The dish that Syd eats is the one she said is, "The best meal I've ever had." Also, it is the version that Carmy originally conceived, not the one Chef McHale made him change. Carmy fakes a fennel allergy and substitutes the blood orange as a small rebellion against Chef Joel McHale. Also, he's plating with the same spoon that Chef Terry gave him earlier in the episode, so it's kinda a battle of the two chef influences.

[@JeffKelly03]

I love this episode. It was fairly divisive since it wound up just basically being one long musical montage, but once I realized what they were doing, I admired the audacity (aka enormous balls) it took to make a full episode out of a musical montage. It’s absolute art. And I love the inclusion of real-life master chefs.

[@elbruces]

It feels like an opening montage at first, but it just keeps going, and by the time you realize this is going to be the whole episode, you're at least halfway through the runtime, and it's lovely.

[@rishabhpb]

@JeffKelly03 a very good portrayal of Carmy's headspace and journey but I feel like the musical score made it 150% better for me

[@pabloc8808]

While it is basically just a musical montage, it is also a view inside Carmy's mind. You understand why he is the way he is, if you pay attention to certain key moments.

[@JonCarmona88]

Fun fact : trent reznor and atticus ross composed the score for this episode, which is a longer version of Nine Inch Nails' "Together". the music is so hauntingly beautiful, it feels calming yet emotionally heavy. So much atmosphere created throughout the episode.

[@ivancores2574]

One of the most unique and greatest season premieres I've seen in recent years. The acting, the direction, the visual storytelling and the soundtrack are immaculate. God, what a great show!

[@mudball35]

Good talking between you two this episode. Especially talking about your work.

[@SweetsourGamer]

This episode was such an artful masterpiece! I couldn't believe the cinematography throughout the entire episode. Mixed with the origins of Carmi's career, this was such a fantastic way to start a season!

[@Okkotsu86275]

Agreed on every word

[@jaycobherr8996]

It fucking sucks

[@johnnypaycheck7727]

This episode is beautiful

[@ryz333n8]

I’m so excited to see y’all watch the rest of this season!! I’m obsessed with this show atm and love hearing what y’all think about the story/characters!! 🫶

[@8BitCristopolis]

ive been in the restaurant business for 13 years. ive worked with people like carmy, chef terry and chefs like Joel Mchale's character (not going to spoil his name). its all about growing, even when you think you reached the summit in your talents, there is still so much to learn from your peers. 3 of the biggest rules in learning are Every Second counts, attention to detail, and focus. yes its also about trying to reach perfection, but its sometimes close to impossible to be 100% of the time.

[@aswinosbalaji4224]

best episode cinematically.. pure emotions.. visual language is too good. great reaction as always 🔥

[@lunaloutfy]

I loved this episode so much omg the dialogue was minimalistic… almost non-existent, and yet it was another masterclass in an episode of television. Consistency and excellence is key. This episode was executed with utmost perfection. It passed by so smoothly but left me with a very sinking feeling. The quality is still there, and the callbacks are making things make so much more sense. And it all leads back to here: Tomorrow. This felt almost illegal to watch because of how personal and intimate it was. It felt like I was looking through a window of someone’s life (Carmy’s) and intruding on it. It was so needed after all the chaos from the season 2 finale, though, because we needed a breather. Onto the ‘Next’ one! (See what I did there? 🙈) Love you guys ❤️

[@Quixotic1018]

One of the first dishes that Sydney makes in the very first episode for family meal was a fennel salad, and she's cooked quite a bit with fennel throughout the show so it's not likely that she's allergic to fennel. Personally I think that was Carmy saying "screw it" and sending out his version of the dish (instead of Chef Winger's version with fennel) which Sydney later tells Marcus was the best thing she ever ate. Almost like this was this show's version of saying it was fate that Syd and Carmy are together.

[@UCFJayBird]

yep. I took that look he gives when he's tasting the Winger version as realizing that his dish is better, and he'd rather send that out. He's probably in that moment realizing that he's as good, if not better, than Winger in that moment because his blood orange version is superior (at least in his mind). That's my interpretation anyway.

[@gabemorris6692]

I think the boundless love and attentiveness they show chef's putting into their work, is paralleled by the love and attention they clearly put into this show.

[@yuhlolx]

one of the greatest episodes of T.V. so simple but a masterpiece

[@Chaosm03]

Nikki: It was just personal chaos. Not chaos for the rest of the group. Carmie: And now it's time to make it everyone else's problem.

[@brettcloud8550]

LFG. This episode to me is "show, don't tell" done masterfully. So melancholic with the track in the background, minimal dialog. A less wholesome "The Journey So Far"

[@JeffKelly03]

Also just watching the intro now and gotta say: find you someone who looks at you the way Nikki and Steven look at each other (when the other person is talking). It's very endearing how much you guys clearly love one another.

[@lxttlcrow_1293]

actually if you watched the first season sydney ate fennel salad so him saying that the customer had a fennel allergy was a lie bc he wanted the dish that he was satisfied with to be served.. paralleling sydney from s1 when she served the risotto to the customer against carmy’s wishes

[@uzik00sh65]

Yeah I can’t explain to you but watching this episode when it first came out was so surreal like idk…I’ve never felt that way watching a show before and that’s how I truly know it’s something special

[@tejida815]

A lot of what you discussed in the intro is very interesting. I hope you enjoy S3. Some are saying that Carmy invented the fennel allergy so he didn’t have to use it.

[@the_nikster1]

the music was soothing yet had an underlying tone of anxiety; it was very fitting for Carmy as a character. he's a pretty low-key guy on the surface. very quiet and unassuming, yet there's always this underlying anxiety that he lives with that permeates his every interaction. such a masterfully written, acted, shot, directed, and scored episode.

[@JonCarmona88]

When I first saw this episode, the music gave me nine inch nails vibes, and sure enough trent reznor did it :)

[@dihboas]

Fun fact: The actress who plays Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas) is actually married to the actor who plays Angel in Dexter (David Zayas) 🥰 And also she won an Emmy for this season and a well deserved one! Her episode is AMAZING ❤

[@kevinmulligans67273]

She won the Emmy for season 2

[@dtgstl3148]

Close... Liza Colón-Zayas just won her Emmy for last season (S2). The window for Emmy eligibility runs from June 1st-May 31st, and since The Bear is always released in June at the very start of the eligibility window, they have to wait more than year for Emmy nominations for whatever the current season is. The next Primetime Emmy ceremony will be held in September 2025, and that's when S3 of The Bear will be eligible for award consideration.

[@drewb4]

Carmy using "Every Second Counts" as speed vs. Terry and her view of it being about embracing the moments you have...tough

[@pabloc8808]

Want another good one? Chef Terry said a lot of encouraging words and was generally very kind to Carmy when he worked under her, but the one time she was harsh on him ("want me to finish that for you, Chef?") was what stuck with him, so much so that he repeated it to Luca later on. You see he had many positive influences throughout his career, but because of his upbringing, he only kept the bad parts.

[@radicaladz]

17:14 - see, you were talking about how Carmy and his relationship with Fields reflects on leadership and what being a good teacher looks like - *this* moment, and the moment earlier where Chef Terry firmly but reasonably admonishes Carmy for being bullish with Luca speaks a lot to how to be a good teacher. It harks back to that Zen-like quality I mentioned in the Forks episode. "The Master doesn’t try to be powerful; thus he is truly powerful. The ordinary man keeps reaching for power; thus he never has enough. The Master does nothing, yet he leaves nothing undone. The ordinary man is always doing things, yet many more are left to be done. The kind man does something, yet something remains undone. The just man does something, and leaves many things to be done. The moral man does something, and when no one responds he rolls up his sleeves and uses force. When the Tao is lost, there is goodness. When goodness is lost, there is morality. When morality is lost, there is ritual. Ritual is the husk of true faith, the beginning of chaos. Therefore the Master concerns himself with the depths and not the surface, with the fruit and not the flower. He has no will of his own. He dwells in reality, and lets all illusions go." - Tao Te Ching

[@kristagemini]

This episode along with "fishes", are both complete cinematic masterpieces. I swear, they blew me away. The tension of season 2 hit a climax, and this episode was a let down of that tension and stress. It moved like a fever dream. It was thoughtful and emotional. I loved the way it made me think of floating in water, and what that physical sensation would feel like if it were an emotion. The episode was a pallete cleanser, and just like Nikki said, it said a lot without saying much. This episode was perfection.

[@alexandersaksvoll5373]

An absolute masterpiece of television. "Together" by "Nine Inch Nails", for anyone needing this soundtrack in their lives.

[@radicaladz]

23:47 - maybe, maybe not. One implication is that he did it as a "fuck you" to Fields, a small act of rebellion to prove that his version of the dish was better. Either way, that simple choice to switch the ingredients sets off a web of fate that brought them together.

[@lucasmizael6824]

this episode was a great start of the season, made us feel so many different emotions with almost no dialogue, I really liked the way they made with cuts going back and forth on carmys journey, looking forward to see your reaction to the finale! :)

[@toxichawk5752]

i will never understand the dislike towards this season. i thought it was amazing.

[@Redjack10]

Yeah everyone in the comments warning them against this season were so wrong and annoying. This season is excellent.

[@elbruces]

So Angel from "Dexter" plays Tina's husband in this show. He's also her husband in real life. In the restaurant industry, somebody being higher up and not knowing how to do everything lower down doesn't ever happen. It happens in most other industries, but not there. Any restaurant who tries to hire a head cook who hasn't mastered every aspect ends up closing within months at best. In "Fishes," regarding hooking up Carmy with Claire, Tiffany says "why would you do that? She's so nice." Carmy has a *lot* of self improvement to do before he can really be in a non-toxic relationship with anybody else. At least beyond a few months. So until he gets there, he might as well go back to being the best at this. And there are a lot of people relying on him to do exactly that right now. Sydney doesn't have a fennel allergy. She was working on a fennel dish last season. Carmy just decided to make *his* version of the dish instead of how Jeff from Community told him to make it, and used that as an excuse. Probably as a random act of defiance. That just happened to be the dish that she got. Remember, in an earlier episode she said that the dish that Carmy made was the best one she'd ever tasted.

[@radicaladz]

12:07 - one of several great uses of NIN this season. Hope to see you guys get caught up on this, as I recently finished it too.

[@paulineandrushuk8923]

Dang...this episode was pretty much perfect. Everything you 2 said about this is TRUE.

[@stevemartegani]

Best montage in Television history

[@lordhoot1]

I think The Bear ties with Dark for epic montage scenes

[@DarkMatterLuigi]

I know many people are mixed on this season, saying there's only a couple great episodes, I still liked it for what it was. It initially was a set up for the next season. Season 4 was supposed to be filmed right after being done with season 3. I'm not sure why that didn't happen.

[@ssotkow]

definitely mixed

[@lordhoot1]

I think it was filmed back-to-back?

[@jcee8493]

Hello Everyone I found season 3 to be the most cerebral, there was still the chaos but there was also so much that got you thinking. A lot of retrospection in this one.

[@jesuischerie224]

[@gpeddino]

The music from this episode is a single track by Nine Inch Nails called "Together", from their 2020 album "Ghosts V: Together". It really combines melancholy with a tinge of anxiety.

[@dtgstl3148]

I just caught an interesting chronological inaccuracy in this episode... we know Carmy went to Copenhagen before he came home for the Christmas dinner from hell, and we know that dinner took place a little under 5 years before The Bear opened (256 weeks) in 2023, which means the Christmas dinner from hell was in 2018. They show Carmy walking across the Lille Langebro (the curvy pedestrian bridge we also saw Marcus walking across in S2E4) in Copenhagen flashbacks, which presumably happened earlier in 2018. But... that bridge was under construction in 2018, so Carmy could not have been walking across it when he was in Copenhagen, because it wasn't completed and open yet. Also, the 256 weeks thing doesn't really work either, because 256 weeks is 4 years and 11 months, and the restaurant is under construction in April 2023 in the present when Fishes takes place - 4 years and 11 months before April 2023 would be May 2018, which is not when Christmas happens.

[@enjoiaj]

i have to say as a former fine dining chef, despite all the crazy yelling and stressful chaos that has/had happened in the previous seasons...this was by far the most stressful episode of the series. the sacrifices you make and the pursuit of perfection are all perfectly encapsulated in this episode, and the worst part of it all is it all entirely self inflicted. the scars it leaves are deep and hard to heal and its so hard to make others understand b/c you did it to yourself willingly

[@MarcoMM1]

This first episode is amazing is like a voyage through the senses, wonderfull shots, love it. In this episode we see 2 famous Chefs doing a cameo one is Daniel Boulud the French chef and restaurateur with restaurants all over the world, And he is best known for his eponymous restaurant Daniel, opened in New York City in 1993, which currently holds two Michelin stars. And the other is René Redzepi a Danish chef and co-owner of the three-Michelin star restaurant Noma in the Christianshavn neighborhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. His restaurant was voted the best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine's World's Best Restaurants in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2021, and was awarded its third Michelin star in 2021. And if are wondering what does keep the spoon mean? Chef Terry (Olivia Colman) tells Carmy to keep the spoon after he creates a sauce. This is likely because all chefs are encouraged to keep a container full of fresh spoons by their workstations. In the real world, some chefs will reuse the same tasting spoon again and again. Clearly, Terry encourages this habit at her restaurant, as she wants her chefs to always taste what they are cooking. Some chefs in other restaurants go the other way, however, and demand new spoons are used every time. Keep up the good work.

[@drewb4]

also could be a way to say "you have made it" such as Tina having Carmys knife. A way to be like you earned it.

[@davidkeese3372]

Yay on to season 3 I don’t remember exactly which episode it is but I know Nikki is gonna love one of the lines said by Nat. I think episode 3 or 4

[@RallyReviews]

yesssss season 3. so happy!!!! Gordan Ramsey has said when he was becoming a chef that they were that hard on him.

[@pabloc8808]

Idk if you know who Gordon Ramsey's chef was: Marco Pierre White. He is a legend, the youngest chef to ever get 3 Michelin stars (at the time) and the first one to return them, claiming he didn't want to be judged by people worse than himself, people that couldn't do what he did. White was an absolute savage too, he would straight up kick guests out of his restaurants if he didn't appreciate their behavior. Look him up, he's quite the interesting character.

[@GutturalReef]

This episode reminds me of a Terrence Malick movie.

[@ihateintroductions5808]

Sydney does not have a fennel allergy, she made fennel salad in the first episode. It's a well placed callback actually, and either shows the inconsistency in Carmy's rules he places on the restaurant in that he did it to spite Chef McHale ("not about you") and/or how he has grown as a leader.

[@jayfrancelf]

One of my fav episodes

[@theamazingrobin927]

13:55 I bring up Forks episode, “fuck you, Garett” “yes, chef. Fuck me”. People only seem to get upset when chef David did it lol

[@vexedmum9389]

this was my second fav eps. next to forks. it was so beautifully done. the music. is Trent Reznor

[@fusionaddict]

Dear Emmys: THIS IS NOT A F***ING COMEDY

[@momentindy]

can't wait ep6

[@mike90317]

Welcome back chefs!

[@snakederrick7305]

*smh* This episode is a piece of art. I love it.

[@CarlosASainzCaccia]

Something great about this episode is that all the chefs (except the asshole) are real Michelin star chefs in their actual restaurants.

[@iceman10129]

Best comedy show! Too good!

[@alienanxiety]

Best Comedy Series of the Year folks!! haha

[@ssotkow]

14:24 Drill Sergents scream into your face and belittle you for the same reason. To fortify that mental wall so emotions don't swell up during combat.

[@pabloc8808]

If you're FOH, customers are gonna yell and berate you for things that might not even be your fault. If you're BOH, stress can build up and people will yell at each other, fight etc. It doesn't justify what Chef does to Carmy. Good kitchens aren't built on verbal abuse, yelling and fighting. They're built on teamwork. It's stressful but it's not a warzone.

[@Piensamalyacertaras]

If you want someone to be Great, never tell them “Good Job!” I learned that from “Whiplash “.

[@herdiemathews8652]

Believe it or not, it is only gets better from here. The rest of the season is stellar!

[@biharcourt]

Pay attention to the music.

[@celestialking6445]

Can you guys watch Orphan?! ❤️ That movie is BUNKERS and Nikki will flip!! 😂😂

[@alejandroromero5511]

Hey guys, it's been a month. No more the bear reactions??''

[@NikkiStevenReact]

they're coming back - we've had a lot come up that's messed with Bear reactions

[@MikeWhoCheeseHairy659]

Supernatural!!! I think you will like it

[@mariahslamb6565]

Love the reactions!!!!! Can you react to “The Crown”

[@alienanxiety]

This episode was beautiful - but by the end of the season, the show was almost unBEARably tedious. The finale inspired anger in me.

[@allieren]

Are you guys still doing The Bear? I just realized I haven’t seen a reaction in forever 😢

[@NikkiStevenReact]

Yeah. Our schedule got a little crazy. We’ll be back with it next week.

[@samcrowe8477]

How’s it going Nikki & Steven

[@TLA79]

The music for the entire episode is "Together" by Nine Inch Nails. It was perfect. 🔥❤️

[@AmandaRomesberg]

When is the next reaction video for the bear??

[@NikkiStevenReact]

Likely returns Sunday

[@pabloc8808]

What you gotta understand about Mikey's death and why it hit everyone at The Beef so hard is, a restaurant like that, a local spot, it takes in rejects. Chains don't do that, and fine dining doesn't do that; it's the local spots that will take in anyone who's willing to work and has a good work ethic. They don't care about your background, where you're from, where you've worked before, you don't even have to speak English for crying out loud. They'll take you in. Mikey was the guy who took them all in and gave them a chance to turn their lives around. He was family for all of them.

[@Pacreincarn8ed]

Love you guys, but I can’t sit through this season again lol, I’ll come thumbs up the vids tho!!!

[@DarkMatterLuigi]

You would watch these videos if you really did love this channel regardless if you liked the season or not, just to support them

[@therealMuNansen]

You guys really need to watch Fleabag. Has Olivia Coleman at her best and in a COMPLETELY different tone.

[@jaydenorr5027]

First

[@jaycobherr8996]

The full season is trash

[@GradietPanda12345]

Wish the show would stop throwing the viewers into random flashbacks without notice or warning

[@Keesha_Hardy]

The flashbacks weren’t random though. Also, how would they give a notice or warning regarding a flashback? They just have to show events happening and we as the audience have to pay attention.

[@dodgeman808080]

People feeling bad for Sydney? In comparison, she had it great! The support, hands-on & hands-off training from one of the best in the business, respect she got while doing anything! Anywho, just my opinion.