Ice Chips

This episode blew my mind. Raw, honest and heart warming. Just top tier entertainment. It was almost like watching theatre.

Jamie Lee pulls out a stellar performance as Donna. Sugar is great at being vulnerable but still headstrong about her child's needs. Her fears are so relatable to any parent to be. Amazing.

The Bear does redemption and arcs better than most shows. I think it's their strongest trait. They get you attached to theses characters for positive and negative reason then just spin you around. I love the hope that this show exudes and fragility of humans. It's one of the best all around shows since the Sopranos.

How many times have we seen childbirth depicted in movies and TV series? A hundred? More? Less? There was always something that wasn't quite right about how childbirth was shown on screen. This episode FINALLY got it right. Jamie Lee Curtis and Abby Elliott hit all the right notes. Going through labor is an experience that most women can tell you every detail about what transpired to them. It is the most personal of times and yet, there is universal emotion that is shared by almost all. Thanks to "The Bear" for showing a slice of our lives that is full of joy and the best of memories (and well as a whole bunch of physical pain that we mostly forget about).

Jamie Lee Curtis delivers an absolute master class in acting in this episode. She's always been amazing, but this was beautifully perfect. Much like the Seven Fishes episode. She's just an amazing actress killing it these past few years on top of her already epic career.

The emotion, subtly, and love for one another that exudes from these characters and underlies everything they're doing is incredible and I'm happy to be on the journey with them all.

This show gets better and better and better, just when I think it might stagnate, it keeps building up and becomes closer and closer to my heart. Brilliant.

I cannot get over the fact how brilliant Jamie Lee Curtis is as Donna in The Bear. Her performance is truly nothing but spectacular. So rough, so real, yet so vulnerable at the same time, so emotional.

She already set the bar high in season 2, but man, her work in this episode is exceptional. I caught myself forgetting it was Jamie Lee Curtis whom I was watching, despite her face which we are all very familiar with. All I saw was Donna. That's how great she is. She is just 100% believable.

So whoever needs to hear this, Emmys or whatever: Give her all the awards you have.

She absolutely deserves them.

I've seen every last role that Jamie Lee Curtis has performed, and purposely meaning a few years ago, I went on IMDb and found anything I hadn't yet seen or hadn't seen in a long time, just to be able to say I've seen everything she's done. Of course when actors and actresses start out, they haven't yet developed a lot of range. Through everything she's performed that wasn't basically a cameo, you can almost see her growth in real time, and in this episode it is CLEAR, at least to me, that this is her greatest performance. She doesn't take you on a roller coaster ride of emotion, she IS the roller coaster. I really enjoyed her performance in the "7 fishes" episode and she was barely in the season 2 finale (can't think of the episode name). After witnessing this performance in "Ice Chips", I finished it thinking 'there's literally no one else that could have played that role THAT good, not Meryl Streep, not Sally Field, not Sissy Spacek, NO ONE". Like I said, I've seen everything she's been in, and I'd put this up against any other role.