Pro tip: Try watching The Bear with subtitles on

I always thought subtitles were for people who couldn't hear or watch foreign stuff. Then my buddy Eric said I was missing half the dialogue in The Bear because of all the kitchen noise and overlapping talk. He was right. After episode 3 of season 2 I turned them on and caught so much more character banter and background jokes. Has anyone else tried this with loud shows like that?

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ryanh561d ago

Get where you're coming from but I actually think subtitles make you pay more attention to what's happening on screen. You start reading faster and your brain just absorbs it all at once. Yeah sometimes you glance down but after a few episodes you barely notice them.

victor_adams1d ago

I'm gonna push back here because I actually tried this with season 1 and it drove me CRAZY. Subtitles made me focus too hard on reading every word instead of watching the actors' faces and the frantic kitchen movement. The Bear is a visual show too. You miss all that tension in the silence between lines when you're scanning text at the bottom. Plus some of the best moments are just people going non-verbal after a stressful rush. I get why people like them for clarity but I felt like I was reading a script instead of experiencing a scene. To each their own but I turned them off after 4 episodes and never looked back.