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It’s another challenging, sometimes sluggish episode about Mikey’s deteriorating mental health and his attacks on the people he loved. Bernthal is very good at this. .... The more nuanced work in this episode belongs to Moss-Bachrach, whose character has had the greatest growth arc throughout the series.
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As affecting as Bernthal and Moss-Bachrach’s performances are, “Gary” doubles down on some of The Bear‘s self-indulgent storytelling impulses: characters yelling at or over each other constantly, lazily written interactions (why in the world is Ireland’s Sherri waxing poetic about trees to Mikey?), and a visual aesthetic that has gone from gritty to gimmicky with its close-up shots. Crucially, the show doesn’t seem to trust its audience’s intelligence.