My brother finally got me to watch The Bear after months of saying no

I kept telling him I didn't want to watch a show about a kitchen, it sounded too stressful. We were at his place in Chicago last month, and he just put on the first episode while I was stuck on his couch with a sprained ankle. He said, 'Just give it ten minutes, it's not about the food, it's about the people.' The opening scene with the chaos of the original beef place and that frantic camera work had me hooked. I ended up watching three episodes right there. The way it shows family pressure and trying to fix a broken thing really got to me. I binged the whole first season over the next two days. Has anyone else been totally wrong about a show at first because of what they thought it was about?

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nelson.wesley11d ago

My cousin talked me into watching Ted Lasso because she said it was a funny sports show. I watched the first episode and thought it was just dumb jokes about soccer. I gave it another shot a year later and realized it's actually about kindness and trying to be a good person when everything is hard. I cried more than I laughed.

the_lee11d ago

Totally get that shift. The show sneaks up on you with its heart. I almost quit after the pilot too.