World famous comedian John Cena disagrees

7/10 for this season by the end. Did have two 10/10 episodes though.

They went to the well way too much on the crazy editing. Got a bit masturbatory. Think they can hopefully dial it down a tad for S4.

Guessing episode 1 and the JLC episodes are the 10s

first word that came to mind for ep1

this perfectly sums up my experience

I really didn't mind it in E1. But I live in a country with legal cannabis

It's the fact they KEPT doing it.

Cruised through S3 this week.

Agree with most of the above posts.

Weakest season yet. All the editing, vignettes, flashbacks, it was all just a bit too performative. Too many episodes were solely focused on the minor characters.

Feel like they wanted Ice Chips to be the Fishes of this season and it didn't do it.

There was virtually zero plot development the entire season. It inched us closer to conflict without actually giving us any. Pretty much zero of the interesting plot devices going on (is the restaurant actually good, Carmy-Richie, Carmy-Claire, will Sydney stay, Carmy-Cicero, Carmy-Mom) were advanced in any meaningful way.

Also Sydney is a very annoying character. You're trying to make me believe someone this anxious and insecure can handle leading a team?

I mean, I'm committed now to watching the show go through it all, but it probably only needs 1-2 more seasons.

I’m through 8 episodes. Only episode I liked was Napkins which focused on Tina. A lot of the episodes are terrible and if not for two great seasons, I would have already quit. I don’t have much hope this gets turned around but I’ll keep watching through S4.

I stopped after episode 3 then just read recaps on wiki. I’ll (probably) finish it when season 4 drops, since I’ll have mostly forgotten S3, but I don’t know. I’m done with trauma-porn at this point.

Yeah, after finishing it last night have to say I was disappointed. No resolution in any meaningful way. They couldn't even give us Richie asking the new maitre d girl to the wedding as a feel good moment in the final episode. Everything implied, nothing solid. Kind of annoying TBH, and I wish Season 4 was coming sooner.

But damn, JLC absolutely kills that mother role. Some of the best acting I've ever seen.

Art has to be what I want it to be and resolve what I want it to resolve to be “good”

There's trauma porn and there's trauma porn. Yellowstone is the former; this is the latter.

Just now got around to watching season 2 and holy **** episode 6 is one of the worst things I've ever watched. Felt like it was a 3 hour episode. Jamie Lee Curtis blew the role away in both appearances. Its such a stressful show where everyone is awful and nothing ever happens, then you get this little piece of perfection and that is what keeps me watching. The end of Richies episode leading into the chocolate covered banana really got me. Oliver Platt delivers such a subtle yet impactful moment.

I've heard enough about season 3 that I'm really not looking forward to watching it. I didn't even enjoy most of season 2

It sounds like you don't watch things to enjoy them but to experience them, season 3 is a thing to be experienced even if the flavour is less.... sharp, perhaps, than season 2. It's still a very well-made show with compelling storyline and cast and everything, just season 3 is less pizzazzy, and season 2 set the bar higher than it would ever be likely to retain in season 3.

Interestingly you nailed that season 3 is an experience. I find its more pizzazzy though, oozing style over substance.

Season 4 looking wild!

I just binged season 3. After having worked in kitchens (in chicago) for the last 16 years, I can't help but judge this show based on the realness of it. I'm fully aware it's fiction and not based on a true story, but they obviously try to recreate the atmosphere of a real restaurant kitchen, so I think criticizing the show, and criticizing reviews of the show, based on realism is fair in this case.

Sydney is the only realistic character on the show, and that's probably why no one likes her. Sydney is like a hybrid of every chef I've ever worked for. If I walked into a kitchen for the first time and Sydney was the chef, it would seem perfectly normal.

If I walked into a kitchen for the first time and Carmy was the chef, I'd consider walking out immediately. Carmy is an idiotic childish bipolar emo nutjob whose personality doesn't resemble any chef or any human I've ever seen. The actor who plays Carmy can't seem to decide if he's doing a Gordon Ramsey impression or if he's a melodramatic soap opera character. He doesn't pull off either one. The Carmy character is poorly written and poorly executed in every possible way.

Carmy is like Omar from The Wire. A silly cartoon character in an otherwise raw, real, and gripping story.

The Sydney character is so real she makes me uncomfortable. Her eye rolls, her annoying snippy comments. Her anxiety, insecurity, and fragile ego are exactly what make her a believable chef.

Season 3 was not great overall. They gave up on telling a coherent story and decided to make a show that's not much more than a hoity toity chef circle jerk. The last episode of S3 was insufferable. No plot whatsoever, it was nothing more than "look at all these famous chefs we got in a room together, aren't you impressed???!!!!) Especially the scene where there was a guy asking Grant Achatz questions about some of his most famous dishes. Every single question the guy asked could've been easily answered by reading the Alinea cookbook, which every fine dining chef and every "foodie" in the world has a copy of. That was the dumbest piece of dialogue I've seen anywhere in a long time.

I guess that's why I don't have any chef friends.

No one watching Season 4?

I like it so far (4 episodes). Much more straight forward narrative structure.

I've been on the fence about it, hoping to hear opinions before I decide. I think I have to commit to the whole season or nothing

I had no clue the new season started. Will probably just wait for all the episodes to release at this point

They already have. It’s the one huge show that drops all at once.

I loved s4. I can see how some people might not. The great news is its back to advancing the narrative as opposed to whatever the **** s3 was.

6 eps into the new season and I think it's great. I didn't read any of the posts ITT to avoid getting spoiled, but if you liked the previous seasons yet thought S3 was a drag... well this is a return to form.

Is anyone ever going to tell this guy to see a therapist or take a pill or something

Felt like I just rewatched S3. Nothing happened. The wedding episode was some sort of heartwarming antithesis to Fishes, and it fell very flat for me. The show is composed of 10x the exact same character, everyone just has Titanic levels of emotional baggage. Show has steadily gone downhill since a great S1.