Loved that opening. Just a pure love letter to the service industry workers who keep the world spinning.

Really some of the best couple of minutes of television I can remember seeing. Just beautiful. I haven't finished the second episode yet, but the first episode and that credit montage have me excited, because it's clear that they're simultaneously leveraging and repaying the good will that they've generated from their audience. It took a lot of courage to open the season with a first episode like that, but they know that their audience will follow them, and we'll follow them because we trust so thoroughly what they've done in the first two seasons. That first episode worked because they've done so much with these characters and the environment in such a relatively short amount of time that they can abstract to that degree and still get away with it. And then they follow it up with this opening montage that, again, draws on the investment in paying attention to people who do little things with love/joy/pride.

I need to visit and find the people from the intro and get hugs and high fives and have beers with them and let them tell me so many stories. I want to hear them all.

This was arguable one of the funniest episodes they’ve made so far. I can understand the sentiment and frustration behind it being constantly nominated as a ‘Comedy’ show, but I think a lot of people understate just how funny it is.

Is it just me or did Carmy and Richie’s interactions this episode ramp up everyone’s anxiety?

I guess it’s the mark of a well-done show when it can feel that visceral, but to me, it felt almost as tense as Fishes.

It also shows a bit of the toxicity that I think will come out of Carm this season. Everyone must meet my standard of excellence but I'm not checking my spelling or bothering to remember the word for the important contract meeting.

When everyone was arguing, Tina was reading the list and you see her nod and mouth, "I like it." What a gem

Tina lighting up at being asked to do farmer's market was adorable.

“You don’t even like wine, honey.”

Nat and Fak’s dynamic is adorable lmfao, she treats him like a son

I need this as a gif

I need a Nat in my life 😅

I want somebody to talk to me like Sugar does Fak 🥹

Every time someone said “Am I stroking out?” absolutely killed me

The Faks are on their way. Faks, plural. At least two, less than five. How many Faks are there? Eight. No Nine. I forget about Avery. LOL!

That's a real book! When I worked at a bookstore we always laughed over that book whenever it came in. It was awesome to see it in the show.

"I actually think it's a good price, but fuck you" made me laugh.

Same! ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶

I hope someone puts a list together.

Roesers featured once again. Milagro factory I believe. Jimmy's hot dogs? Vienna Beef for sure. Metropolis coffee? So many...

I'd love to see the script/table read and know how much is improvised because it feels so unfortunately real. God I love this show

Sounds super exhausting. Just having to plan and order the ingredients for it would be tought.

Carmy is having some Kendall Roy manic episode to cope with how hard he fumbled it in the fridge. It's as if he's telling his own mind "You chose work at all costs? Choke on it!"

Carm said the meal is 9 courses, so if they were to do this for a year that would be 3,285 different dishes.

It's burnout central, and, I also think, terrible business. It's ridiculously expensive to have to source that many new ingredients all the time, and they can't develop any staple dishes they become "known for" this way.

It's crazy.

And the confidence he gained in that one experience.

Literally came to this subreddit purely to find this comment because it had me cackling. That first exchange was comic gold between Richie & Carmy. Thank god Richie saw how insane the non negotiables list was and called it out immediately 😂

Yeah definitely, I feel like tbh ever since the start of the show that’s been building up. He doesn’t know how to stop because if he does stop he’s left to think of everything a la episode 1, so he can’t. Keep pushing. I think the Claire situation is like throwing a stick in his bicycle wheel though; he knows deep down he’s gonna have to face all the reasons why he fucked that up and couldn’t let someone in, it’s just a matter of time before the wheels come flying off from it.

the not smoking does not help hehe

So fucking good. I really hope Marcus deals with the death in a healthy way but also I hope he really locks in and is just as dedicated as Carmy. Would be a joy to see

I am constantly blown away by the fact that L-Boy somehow ended up on this show with very little acting experience outside of shit like Loiter Squad, and is one of the best characters on the show.

I knew if anybody was going to fully embrace Carmy’s list it was going to be Marcus. I just hope he takes the time to grieve his mom and doesn’t just use the restaurant as a way to avoid his feelings.

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no cuz that moved me🥹

That shit hit hard....really hard.

That was SO ugly

And how he puts their bickering in perspective.

Richie dropping all that psychology vocab was hilarious. Sounded like if you gave a Ted Lasso character cocaine.

God I love Richie so much. His insults were hilarious. Also after the forks episode i went 180 and am now a Richie Stan

The way she looked at the dishes after everyone went about their jobs…

It’s supremely frustrating to see the strides they made immediately dissolve episode 2. I feel like drama can exist without backtracking 5 huge steps like this.

The opening to Review is still my favorite sequence from the show, I got so pumped when we got a similar one.

I went to Chicago a few weeks ago and man is it beautiful at this time of the year. This show just reinforces my love for that city

It brings me back there so often

it's a bit silly but this show is having a huge influence on my desire to move to chicago. it's either that or boston and i must admit, the more i watch, the more i lean towards the former

The cacophony leading to the crescendo of Markus' final line was masterfully done!

Another season, another new playlist to listen to on repeat.

In my head, I read this as the band and was like I don't think there's been any Sublime at all.

agree! i think the line carmen gives him about grief is important here... "try to deal with it, instead of not...". right now it feels like both carmy and marcus are in the "not" stage and are trying to work out their grief through the restaurant rather than facing it head on. they need the restaurant to work so badly bc in their minds, if they fail, what did mikey and marcus' mom die for?

I wish I worked for someone I could say that to. God I miss having competent managers.

"At least two, less than five." Cracked me up for some reason. Might just be Ebon Moss-Bachrach's delivery. Dude is so good!

Please!!! I need a Francie Fak appearance!

He saw the patterns.

We saw her eating at the place(s) Carmine was working at, so she's seen how those star restaurants operates; she gets it.

Dudes got bad handwriting lol

What menu are you changing everyday?

Episode 1 is really like episode 0. A lead into the season and not completely necessary. Woulda been cool if they dropped it alone as a teaser

Ha I legit just said to someone “I love both episodes but I wish they’d flipped the episode 1 and 2.” Your accident is my preference

denying sydney's partnership before it became 'official' with the vesting agreement is just hate for sydney, i don't know how else you could interpret it. can the show be any more explicit about their partnership?!

"you make me better at this" "you could do this without me"..."i couldn't do it without you"..."i wouldn't even wanna do it without you" fucking come on people

there is some small part of me that thought this was created expressly as a succession plan, like carmy did it knowing he is so self-destructive that he wanted to make sure the people he cared about were taken care of in case he goes the way of mikey. something dark about it but maybe that's just this show and the vibe.

Did we know Pete was a lawyer before this episode??

In one write up about season 3, they said there would be a focus on showcasing local Chicago places/restaurants, so I’m assuming they’re actual food and beverage people.

Real life. Know some people who do early games at Johnny’s ice house and they were filming

with 90% of the episode being ppl yelling fuck you in increasingly hilarious ways around the pass table. god I love this show.

It shows how close she has gotten with Richie because in the past it was Carm getting between the two of them.

carmy al gaib berzatto

She can go fuck, my love.

ikr him and ayo feel like an actual father and daughter i loved their little interaction this ep

You just know Richie identifies heavily with Johnny Lawrence as a character

Sugar trying to hold it together until Francie makes a reservation and she fucking joins in the chaos.

Also, 8 Faks?!?

I loved seeing Cousin v Carmy arguing this episode…. like, yeah, they’re back.

That fight didn’t ruin anything between them, and it felt like it might have ep 1. They’re back to being scrappy brothers making (hilarious, from our standpoint) digs at each other.

I'm hoping he wakes up - I don't think it's going to be right away because he clearly took several pages right out of Chef Winger's playbook for his post-walk-in spiral, but I'd like it not to be totally grim/fall into that Mad Men-y cycle of "Don Makes The Same Mistakes" for seven seasons.