Construction and paperwork on converting The lowbrow Beef to The upscale Bear continues apace, but despite permits pulling, walls falling and pregnancies revealing, that’s all kind of boring. Nobody wants to watch waiting.
So, in the meantime, the production team has gone international, y’all, and they’re making the most of their time overseas with some gorgeous loving shots of Copenhagen.
It doesn’t pull at the ol’ Chicago heartstrings for me, but the town looks pretty.
Instead of Via Chicago, we get Lindsey Buckingham’s Holiday Road for the Copenhagen arrival montage (an obvious, derivative choice, hat tip to Chicagoan Harold Ramis) and some esoteric jazz for the strolling-around-town-looking-at-Noma montage.
And it’s all….fine.
I found myself without a lot to say about this episode. I did enjoy the introduction of the character of Luca, the London chef who oversees Marcus on his stage, played by Will Poulter, who was memorable in We’re The Millers (a super-underrated lowbrow comedy, btw. Lower your standards, get high, stream it sometime. I guarantee you’ll laugh your ass off).
This Marcus-goes-to-Denmark episode actually kind of reminds me of one of those special 2-part episodes of The Love Boat where they do a cruise somewhere like Alaska or Australia and so the focus ends up being more on the special-edition scenery that they paid millions to shoot on location than on the stories or characters like in a normal episode.
