Honeydew

I loved every moment of that episode. It was so calming and heartwarming. Marcus is a fantastic character and someone you can't help but want the best for. His phone calls and messages back to his sick mother just hit so hard. The episode was shot beautifully and Will Poulter just topped it off with a masterclass in acting. I could have watched that episode for at least another hour! I think they say, chef's kiss..

This show seems to go from strength to strength and it's easily up there with my favourites ever. It brings a humanity to tv that I rarely feel when I'm watching the shows made today.

Its been made clear that this season was going to take a different approach. While the ultimate goal is the opening of the restaurant it also prioritizes on character growth and I think that is truly shown here.

I really liked how Marcus was the main focus here. We get to know more about his passion but also about his personal life. He's always been a character that hasn't really been showcased too much but this episode certainly changed that.

He has always been an interesting character to me because he's such a genuine person who is not as chaotic compared to the rest of the crew. Giving him his own episode where he ventures on a journey of discovery is something that was needed from him.

Also the addition of Will Poulter was quite a surprise and it definitely gave this episode a massive boost.

Wow! This episode was truely something else! Suddenly the vibe changed as Marcus went on this beautifull and inspirering journey of culinary discovery!

Since I am from Denmark and live close to Copenhagen i have to praise the episode for capturering the beauty and charm of the danish capital! It is clear the people behind the show has always had a thing for Copenhagen since it is broad up numerous times, and now they get to show it in this episode!

Will Poulter also completely steals the show as Luca! He gives of such a deep and heartwarming performance and he just feels dedicated to a point where you can feel his passion just by looking at him!

The food alomg with the shots of Copenhagen makes for a visually pleasing episode with a lot of heart!

This season has been such a great deep dive into characters so far. This episode, looking at Marcus going to Copenhagen, warmed my heart immensely. We all know he is a great guy, but adding the additional context by showing him with his mom, helping a man who has fallen, and sending pictures to people at home characterizes how much he loves his family and his home. Will Poulter is also a welcome addition to this episode as the chef tasked with teaching Marcus how to become better. The calm, smooth pacing of the episode is perfect for Marcus. It's also wild Ramy Youssef directed, what a great surprise at the end credits!

This episode is ******* beautiful. Simple is simple does. Beautiful music, heartwarming moments, and spectacular writing. 10 out of 10. A love letter to life. I have to have more characters so here's Letters to a Young Poet by Ranier Maria Rilke:

It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. But learning-time is always a long, secluded time ahead and far on into life, is-; solitude, a heightened and deepened kind of aloneness for the person who loves. Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person (for what would a union be of two people who are unclarified, unfinished, and still incoherent-?), it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances. Only in this sense, as the task of working on them- selves ("to hearken and to hammer day and night"), may young people use the love that is given to them. Merging and surrendering and every kind of com- munion is not for them (who must still, for a long, long time, save and gather themselves); it is the ultimate, is perhaps that for which human lives are as yet barely large enough.