Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
Ketrivie
It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Jerrie
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
bearcatnat
After recently rewatching the musical movie Across the Universe, I checked out IMDb to see what actor Jim Sturgess has done since, and discovered Feed the Beast. I remembered seeing commercials for it this past winter, so I was happy to find out all 10 episodes were available for streaming on DirecTV. Over the past four evenings, I've binge watched Feed the Beast. It's not as good as my favorite AMC dramas Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but I really enjoyed it. Jim Sturgess is great in the part of a low-life, creepy kind of guy that you want to hate, but part of you just likes him. At first I was turned off by the casting of David Schwimmer as the widowed father, having been so familiar with him as the whiny Ross from Friends. But by episode 6 or 7, his character seemed to turn a corner and now he really feels right in the role. Some of the story lines are predictable, but I did not see coming the big cliffhanger that happens at the end of episode 10. I really hope Feed the Beast is renewed for a second season so we are left hanging with what happened!
Tony Ocean
Well, where to start.In today's TV there's so much variety that there's something for every taste, but this show gets unfairly slagged so hopefully anyone reading this will give it a chance without dismissing it just from unfavorable reviews which have no real grounding anyways.There's drama, comedy, love stories, crime, family, friendship and social diversity exploration all combined with well chosen and composed cast, which should satisfy your need for a deep, but at the same time not too burdening or overly complicated story that you can follow weekly and not feel like you wasted your time by watching it.Of course there are some flaws in it, but nothing is perfect, and if you give it a shot I think you'll learn to appreciate it more and more by each episode you see.Give it a chance, that's all I'm saying.
bigsteve-59679
I guess I kept watching, believing that it might get better....but no, each week another 60 minutes go by that I will never get back. A mute kid that's not spoken since his mum died, a racist gran-dad hard-nut who owns half the restaurant to be, the best thing about this is Luther from The Warriors, and the psycho "dentist". You get a couple of blokes dribbling over fantastic meals they want to make, and a couple of expensive wines. One slightly strung out chef owes some bad boys $600k, and a wine guy. unfortunately, David Schwimmer can only play Ross, he does it here, and he done it in Band of Brothers. its a really sad excuse for a show!
Joe Smith
There's nothing good about it. The dialog is flat and trite and the characters and acting are awful. Tommy has a single facial expression ALL the time which makes him look like a bloodhound who's bummed out because he's lost his sense of smell, and Dion runs around like a drugged out manic meth-head who's on speed all the time, and, oh wait, DION IS a drugged out manic meth-head who runs around on speed all the time.We have a supposedly Hispanic restaurant "manager" who not only is totally faking everything she claims to know about running a restaurant, but is also obviously even faking being Hispanic. Even the mute kid is ANNOYING as hell (JEEZ, JUST SAY SOMETHING ALREADY!), and the granddad was simply lifted whole out of "Gotham" and the "Sopranos" (as was the "ruthless" cop now that I think about it). And don't even get me started on the idiot "Toothfairy" character. That guy is a truly horrible actor and the tooth-pulling bit is about as trite as it gets.Every one of these "characters" are one dimensional stereotypes. And worse, not only do you not even like ANY of these characters, you actually despise all of them, even the annoying mute kid (JEEZ, JUST SAY SOMETHING ALREADY!).Dion lies to everyone about everything all the time, totally F-ing over EVERYONE, including those he's supposed to care about, not to mention that DION thinks it's a great idea to rob Tommy's former employer of $100,000 in high end wines and maim the minimum-wage warehouse night guard in the process, and the audience is supposed to think all of that is really, really cool and that DION is a really, really cool dude for doing sick stuff like that. And worst of all, it's clear that DION is never going undergo introspection and morph into a better person, because DION's drugged-out narcissism and active destruction of those around him are what the entire show revolves around. If DION were to change, then F & B would pretty much be just another cooking show, where every episode would remind you of Antony Bordain revisiting his old employer, Les Halles. And we can't have that, now can we? So Dion HAS to remain a drugged-out manic meth-head.There is zero original in the plot elements, which are nothing but a mish-mash of ripped off bits from every mafia movie ever made. Plus, these story bits are cobbled together in a terribly opaque fashion: totally predictable with no surprises. You can pretty much sit there and go: oh, now it's time for a mafia scene, or now it's time for a mute kid scene, or now it's time for the evil obsessed cop to show up and threaten Dion, or now it's time for the Toothfairy to show up and threatened Dion, or now it's time for the old man to hate Dion's foo-foo food, or now it's time for Dion to go wild spending money without listening to anyone, or now it's time for the old man to teach mute Timmy (or whatever his name is) to stand up and fight for himself, or now it's time to have another "Dion awesomely cool cooking scene" (which by the way you can tell is a awesomely cool cooking scene because they always play "awesomely cool cooking scene" music so you get in that "awesomely cool cooking scene" groove.Perhaps needless to say, F & B has been removed from my record-series list.
