u/GWillHunting

I just finished Season 5 and wanted to share some of my critiques:

1. “And I think it’s very clear that me trying to fix the restaurant was me trying to fix whatever was happening with my brother” is Carmy’s quote from season 1. Where was Michael in Season 5??? I was genuinely dumbfounded that all we got was an “all good” text from Carmy, and one tiny flashback of Richie with him. Wtf??? They really barely referenced the legit main plot point over the entire show… in the last season?

2. I really miss the writing from season 1/2. The writing from season 5, as well as most of season 3 and 4, felt like a corny, half-assed comedy/drama. Why do we need all the Fak screentime? That scene with the Faks and Sidney where she’s muttering how he’s a **** under her breath was so stupid and try hard.

3. Since when did The Bear become a Disney kids show? I swear Season 5 was basically “everyone succeeds, the restaurant is amazing, two Michelin stars, what a happy ending!!!” Like what???

4. Why did they replace Rob Reiners character with Cheese when they could have just merged his lines with the Computer? I mean why couldn’t the Computer “discover” Ebras plan? There was literally nothing about Cheese’s character where you couldn’t just merge the lines into The Computer.

5. The guests that just stood there in the kitchen for legitimately two hours was so freaking dumb. What were the writers thinking??? That it would be funny? What kind of serious restaurant would be like “oh yeah, let’s let these random people just take up a bunch of space in our chaotic kitchen on the biggest night of our careers?” It was just so stupid.

6. The Pete/Sugar hook up scene? Wtf? Felt so out of place and just a real “well this is so forced and so unnecessary”

Overall, I really loved Season 1 and Season 2 of the Bear. I thought there were still some strong points in Season 3 in Carmy’s scenes. But it was really disappointing to watch the show devolve to just dumb, forced comedy jokes with the Faks, and just giving way too much screentime to Sugar’s baby rather than actually focusing on the intriguing parts of the show that made Season 1 and 2 so good. Season 5 was better than 3 or 4, but still overall, just such a decline in writing from the original two seasons.

I’m genuinely dumbfounded how you can be first to market at an injectable GLP-1, have tons of patients taking it, get first to market with the best oral GLP-1 with thousands of prescriptions for it… and still be only up 1.25% from 5 years ago before your GLP-1 medications were even released.

Like how bad must the upper level management be? Are they just hemorrhaging money or paying out crazy salaries to their upper level c-suite?

Again, developing one of the biggest breakthroughs in modern medicine and yet only being up 1.25% in five years… is nuts. Sure, the IV injectable isn’t as good as LLY. But the oral medication is best in its class and has a huge market and demand for patients across the world.

It’s down 4% today and I just can’t wrap my head around how this company isn’t printing money aside from just horrible, horrible, upper level management or frankly fraud at the upper levels. End rant.

I know we’ve had a bit of a run up the past month, but it’s still insane to me that the stock is only up 23% in five years.

Only up 23% in five years time after developing a blockbuster GLP-1 drug and now the first oral GLP-1 to market.

Like how are they not insanely profitable? How is this company this poorly run to have this kind of return?

It’s truly mind boggling how bad management must be at the upper levels to have this bad of a return on investment for such a successful and profitable drug.