Children

It is very hard to remember, but The Bear was a good show once. Season 1 and 2 were great and the anticipation of season 3 was enormous, rightfully so. But five episodes in, nothing happened. Nothing at all. I can't even believe my own words, but it's true.

And what have the showrunners decided to change this fact? They brought in WWE heavy weight champion... and his name is...

JOHN CENA

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A cameo of nothingness in a season of nothingness. This is a perfect example of "How to ruin your show fast and easy".

Only thing that gives me hope is the next episode with a 9.2 IMDb. Maybe, just maybe there is hope.

I used to love this show, it took me a while to "get it" but when I did, I fell in love with it. Season 3 though, makes me even question whether the first 2 seasons were actually any good. There was always the potential to veer into navel gazing pretentiousness, it was there in the relationship with Clare, but season 3 has teetered over the edge and fell heavy on the style with a complete lack of substance. Nothing happens, it's just a windy vacuum of portentous nothing. The only thing that could possibly make this show worse would be for John Cena to suddenly appear as an Uber macho knob end and start chewing scenery at the expense of any last vestiges of a plot. Oh wait... he's here!

Love this show and would was planning on automatically giving it 8+/10 for the whole season....until this episode (S03E05 - The Children) Introducing fan favorites into a show or episode can work well in most cases if the character melds well with the story.

This time it felt forced. Almost as if the writers and directors were trying to make a point of it.....it felt jarring and took away from the overall storyline. Would have preferred another character without as much stardom commanding the camera. The best part about The Bear is that it feels authentic and more connected to the struggles of the common man. This felt like a slight deviation with the character introduction.

But overall still love the show!

John cena's addition was awful. Almost couldn't get through it. Giving this season one more chance. Hate it bc I LOVED the first seasons. Tina's story in the next episode is going to be great. I am looking forward to it.the writing was brilliant in the first few seasons. What happened?!? Such a great representation of the food industry. Please do better. Please stick the original story line and character development. I feel like these people are my family and I love them all. Please step it up and co time to write the good hard stuff. And get rid of John Cena. He was awful. Not even sure if words can describe it.

As a show gets more and more popular it seems that celebrity guests become more and more prevalent. I'm hoping this doesn't become a trend on this show. Although up to this episode the celebrity guests have been pretty spectacular.

Nothing against John Cena, but whenever I see him in something he seems to play the same character. Wink wink, ain't I quirky. It took me out of the episode and it felt forced.

The rhythm of the Faks seemed off this episode too. Maybe it was 1 too many Faks.

The Computer character seemed more interesting than Sammy and I wish the focus had been more on him.

Again, nothing against John Cena.