Phed Beauty

A bookworm, a fashionista, and a fan of good tv.

[texasbama]

#NICOLANDRIA HIVE WE'RE UP!!

[phedbeauty]

I usually don't watch Love Island, but this couple got me. Their connection is powerful. ♥️

[alwaysshipping1]

‘AFTER THE HUNT’ teaser with extra scenes

[phedbeauty]

This is going to eat!! 💯🍴

[leahgardner-art]

☕️

[phedbeauty]

Sunday is not Carmy's favorite day

Let me preface this by saying this is not a Claire hate post or anything negative towards Claire. This is merely an observation.

I noticed in season 4 when Carmy and Claire are talking after the table scene. Claire mentioned she thought Carmy would be at work, and he says no their closed on Sunday. Claire says, "Sunday... your favorite day. " And Carmy says yes, you're right. But it's not right.

In season 3, episode 4, Carmy and Claire are talking in a flashback. When he asks what day it is, she says Wednesday, and he said he likes Wednesday. But then Claire asks what his favorite day was, and he says "not Sundays" because the restaurant is closed and anxious for the week and nothing to do, and his mind won't shut off. So it's not his favorite day, but this season, he says it is to her. I don't know if that's a flub or if he just lied to her for no reason.

Another inconsistency is when Sydney tells Cicero that her mother died when she was 5, but in season 2, she tells Carmy she was 4 when she died.

I don't know. I notice these things, and I can't tell if it's intentional or they honestly don't check to make sure things are consistent with what these characters say or do in previous seasons. It's a little weird.

I love the fact that they are consistent with putting out a new season yearly, but you have to make sure you're not making these minor mistakes as the seasons/stories progress. You know. It can lead to unnecessary confusion.

Just my two cents.

UPDATE: So it's been brought to my attention that Claire was being sarcastic about Sunday being Carmy's favorite day. I didn't catch that, so that's my bad. I'll have to rewatch it.

[flipjack]

Season wrap for Gillian and Molly

[phedbeauty]

Aww, I love a good bts video. ❤️🐻

[phedbeauty]

Getting In Tune

In S4E1, after the aftermath of the review, Carmy and Syd are talking in the empty kitchen. When Carmy says he doesn't like dysfunction and Syd asks "Well what do you like?"

[Music fades in: Getting In Tune by The Who.]

Carmy answers, "I like this," while looking at Syd.

As Syd walks away and Carmy's gaze follows her.

[Music gets louder: "And I'm gonna tune right in on you" ]

I mean, not to be delulu, but music placement means something. No? I think it's sort of established. 🤔🤭

Food for thought. 🍽

[scyeschef]

The Bear Season 5 Renewal!!

[phedbeauty]

THANK YOU JESUS!!! LET'S GO!! 🎉🎉♥️♥️

[phedbeauty]

I love that they played Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" in the food montage before Sydney chose Carmy and The Bear over Chef Shapiro. I feel like that was a choice, but I will not speculate further. LOL

[ladiesofcinema]

Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu in Worms (S04E04) The Bear (2022-present)

[phedbeauty]

This was definitely the best episode. ♥️✨️🏆

[phedbeauty]

The Bear S4: Family

The central theme about this season of The Bear is Family.

Despite my confusion about this season, one thing at the heart of it was its focus on this found family. I really loved that. Episode 7, The Wedding, was basically the culmination of this ever-expanding Bear family . But overall, that was the vibe throughout the season.

You have the Berzatto family at the core — Carmy, Natalie, Mikey, Donna. Then you have all their close family friends comprised of cousins and neighborhood kids they grew up around (Cicero, Richie, Neil, Ted) and the Beef restaurant (Tina, Ebrahim, Marcus, Sweeps, Manny, Angel). And all those that come into it. I think it's really beautiful and one of my favorite things about the series.

I liked how they showed this outsider, Sydney, coming into this dysfunctional blended family and how she's sort of assimilating into it. She's still a little hesitant to fully let them in, especially Carmy. She doesn't want to talk about her dad too much with him or have them meet. I think that trust broke in S2, so she keeps them at a distance. I don't know. But it's all so interesting.

I really like this Bear family. I really liked the season. That's really its redeeming quality because you love all these characters and enjoy watching them. I would accept more seasons of them. 🙂

[phedbeauty]

Richie: "You're quitting?"

Carmy: "I'm retiring."

Richie: "Right. You're retiring?"

Richie: "You're 12!"

LOL. That was an intense episode, but that line delivery was funny. 🤣🤣

[syol0gy]

Carmy really baby trapped Sydney with a restaurant then went out to the store to buy milk😭😭😭

[phedbeauty]

I feel like this is a callback to S1 "Dogs" when Carmy and Cicero are in the kitchen talking about how his dad stuck mom with that restaurant. Carmy is working on getting better but still repeating these familial self-destructive cycles. He keeps thinking he's giving Syd what she wants, but he's not. 😕

[djo]

AYO EDEBIRI as SYDNEY ADAMU 4.04 | The Bear

[phedbeauty]

Ayo ate this season! Honestly, if it wasn't for her, I'd contemplate whether to watch it, even though I love the whole cast. She's literally the glue here. Lol. Loved her performance. Give her the Emmy. I don't care if it's not a full-on comedic show. 🏆✨️♥️

[phedbeauty]

The Bear Season 4: Confusing But Great Performances

So... I'm confused. I feel like this season made no sense. I had a hard time following it. It was artistically and cinematically great, although they did recycle some scenes, but I just feel more confused because the storyline didn't flow or make sense (to me). You know. I would rather them take their time with these storylines rather than just throwing stuff out each year.

I loved the acting from the big 3 — Ayo, Jeremy, and Ebon — but the whole cast overall. Ayo and Lionel's episode 4 ate! I loved the fight scene between Syd and Carmy versus the one between Carmy and Claire. No hate, though. I'm just comparing. (I think there was a purposeful contrast in those arguments.) Their fight had more feeling or emotion behind it, rather just yelling. My opinion, of course.

I don't know. It would suck if they just ended the series like that, though, because if that's the case, they could have stopped at season 1. There's more that's missing from this story. The further I watched this season, the more I missed season 1 because it was perfect.

So Carmy is quitting and is going to find a way to repay the debt he owes Cicero. And then what? Travel the world with Claire? Become an artist, maybe? He was passionate about cooking, and now he's not. I do think he needs to find himself outside the restaurant — have a life. That's a necessity, really.

My one word review of this season is: confused. I don't think any amount of rewatching can change that. However, I still love it. I do have more critiques to share, but later.

Can't wait to read others' thoughts.

[erisworldsblog]

[phedbeauty]

She can't read. 😒

[james-stark-the-writer]

not even a minute into Gary Dauberman's Annabelle Comes Home (2019) and i'm already kind of ticked off. how many fucking times must we return to this stupid intro? like i get making the movie accessible to people who haven't kept up with the rest of the universe, but i feel like if you're titling something "Annabelle Comes Home", you expect people to at least be familiar with the idea of what the Annabelle doll is and do not need to keep revisiting this fucking intro from The Conjuring so many goddamn times. this is like the fourth time we have seen this fucking intro shot in this universe (though it's appreciated that this one is at least color graded differently to fit in visually more with this film's aesthetic. i think it might even be a recreated shot and not just the original footage graded differently because the eyes look different but that could just be the color grading and i'm not gonna bother checking because i don't care that much. but i am tired of revisiting this moment as a story beat too.). please stop.

anyway, i am hoping this is just relegated to the intro because i actually remember really enjoying this one. like, i saw it in theaters and everything, and i binged The Conjuring Universe originally to watch this in theaters and it was actually pretty fun for what it was. so, i'm excited to revisit it and see if it holds up. i do remember a good chunk of this movie, especially some of the jumpscares, so it'll be interesting to see how they're contextualized, especially now with the context of the universe more spread out instead of binging through six movies back to back before watching another movie in the same universe doing more jumpscares at you because it thinks that's what horror is.

[james-stark-the-writer]

OH HEY I'D FORGOTTEN MCKENNA GRACE WAS PLAYING JUDY IN THIS ONE. she'll always be young Theo to me but let's see what she brings to this role. also, the intro was actually pretty fun, but i'd argue this feels too much like The Conjuring movies and not like the rest of the Annabelle movies so far (especially aesthetically but also bc there's so much Ed and Lorraine, as delightful as these fictional portrayals are), which might be a plus for some people but to me feels a little weird. like yeah, i guess this is bridging the gap between the Annabelle movies and The Conjuring movies so it should feel a little bit like both but still, it's a little odd.

also surprised we didn't get a title drop when we cut to that blinding white light. i honestly don't remember the title card from this at all, so i'm excited to see what it looks like!

[james-stark-the-writer]

nope. the way they do the glass case section narratively is shit and it feels like the stupid fucking writing of Solo when it comes to answering questions that never needed to be answered, and also the title card looks terrible, especially how it's all never on screen at once since the text crawl is only using half the vertical screen, and it's not bridging the gap between the Annabelle movies and The Conjuring movies but just doing The Conjuring movies but worse. i'd say worst Annabelle title card but unfortunately i still think Annabelle: Creation has the worse one, just on an aesthetic level. it had a better idea tho, and this is shit.

[james-stark-the-writer]

at least this movie is pretty fucking funny. like, i'm actually giggling real bad. so, good job, Gary. and the characters are pretty charming and fun too.

[james-stark-the-writer]

took a little break to get some food. anyway, Daniela has no fucking tact, like she is immediately pushing on the scary stuff issue as soon as she gets inside the door. like, be serious, girlie. can you at least warm Judy up with a couple of friendly questions? like, god. this movie is not that short that you have to skip all the meat between interactions. also the creepy stuff in the movie is fine so far. it's not great, but it's fun. it's a decent vibe. it's at least more Annabelle than the rest of the movie.

[james-stark-the-writer]

the hallway looks way shorter than it was in the other movies lol, why did they not get the proportions right. i mean, unless it's a different hallway, but i think it is the same as the Valak hallway.

[james-stark-the-writer]

you know, as stupid as Daniela is for messing with this, where's the fog in the room coming from? is the room temperature controlled? can we talk about that? why is there fog falling from over her head?

[james-stark-the-writer]

i know she's a teenager and everything, but girl, you have fucking nothing going on in your head. like, first of all, why the fuck would you ever call out to any spirit instead of specifically your dad, and then open the case to set the doll up straight? like, just leave. please. but second of all, like, regardless of whether or not you believe in it, why would you leave evidence of entering the space by touching everything. like can you think for one second. think this is the stupidest sequence in the Annabelle movies, and that's saying something. i think i originally thought that too, looking at my review for it on letterboxd lol, it'd be easier to turn your brain off an enjoy it if this was more The Nun than just a bunch of teens making stupid decisions. which, you know, teen characters making stupid decisions is a bedrock for a lot of horror, so i'm not inherently opposed to the idea, obviously, but you know, sometimes there is a limit and sometimes you are asking for it, and i do believe she is absolutely asking to get haunted, and possessed, and killed. anyway, this movie obviously has to be completely inconsequential because we know nothing in it matters to the rest of the universe, but man, it would be nice if any of this mattered and we could dramatically take it seriously. it unfortunately suffers from where it takes place in the timeline.

[james-stark-the-writer]

fun that they got (original) young Annabelle back, i guess.

[james-stark-the-writer]

this scene with Daniela would've been nice to have BEFORE she went messing around with shit, give us more to hold on to, emotionally.

[james-stark-the-writer]

the bride moving around scene was less "fun homage" and more "poor version of Wan's scare". also, Daniela, you're just being annoying now. come on, girl. you just heard Judy screaming, didn't even go upstairs, and now you're messing up files and leaving even more evidence of snooping. at least try a little harder to not let everyone know you were there!

[james-stark-the-writer]

Gary, could you perhaps try a little fucking harder to not make Daniela one of the most annoying characters in horror? please. there's horror stupid, and then there's just "character doing things because movie needs to happen." and this is so overwhelmingly the latter, it is getting on my fucking nerves. try a little fucking harder, Gary, please. can you give her like a little ounce of motivation beyond just "dead dad"? bc that doesn't remotely justify half the shit she's doing.

[phedbeauty]

Ughh. The Daniela character in Annabelle Comes Home just completely turned me off of the movie. Seriously? I understand that she lost her father, but that does not excuse her from doing all that she did. Number one, I would not have let her into the house or left her alone in the house where she was not supposed to be. That's the blonde girl's fault. Just stupid. I can't tolerate the stupidity of that character. It's my least favorite Annabelle movie. I'm so sorry. 😖😖

[alwaysshipping1]

We are not worthy 🙂‍↕️ The serve is unreal

[phedbeauty]

This is a gorgeous look on Ayo. Her and Danielle Goldberg are working magic together. Effortlessly, of course. ♥️🌟✨️