Week 25.34 - Socials Roundup
18 Aug - 24 Aug 2025: Out of the Fog, The Bear, P-Valley, Taskmaster
Week 25.34 posts include shots from Out of the Fog (1941); the final two episodes of The Bear Season 4 (2022-current); P-Valley (2020-current); and Taskmaster (2015-current).
Out of the Fog
A live lighting change, camera movement which the score sweeps along with, very precise actor blocking, and a lil cigarette smoke as the cherry on top all come together to make this gorgeous, dreamy shot from Out of the Fog.
P-Valley
There’s a live lighting change like the above, then there’s a Big Camera Move which reveals wonderful lighting contrast like this from P-Valley 1.07 "Last Call for Alcohol".
The tiny fairy lights in the car look like the giant city lights from afar in the final shot, while Uncle Clifford’s pink wig ties all the colours together. Simply wonderful use of closeup-to-wide and the yellows, blues, and pinks popping against jet-blue night.
Taskmaster
Yet another reason we should never, ever give over captioning to GAI: we wouldn’t get delightful moments like this explanation of “various cries of intrigue” as a needle-tipped-see-saw quivers near a balloon in episode 14.01 “The Chassis, the Wings”.
The Bear 4.09
Constant use of various clocks and timers isn’t the only way The Bear marks time; “Napkins” uses timesheets, bus schedules, and more; several episodes of Season 2 used a giant calendar.
While Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) is thinking about the season’s omnipresent blue clock, the first ‘new’ marker of time we get is as different as can be; the date written on an old photograph Donna (Jamie Lee Curtis) shows him.
When Carmy makes his mom lunch, it’s in her kitchen we’ve seen many times, including the first scene (and clock shot) of this season.
Meanwhile life at the restaurant goes on, even as Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas) swears she’s “not lookin’ at the clock” — note how the clock shows up in the background of her shots, but always out of focus until . . .
Luca (Will Pulter) puts Tina secretly on a timer, to prove she’s finally mastered the skill she’s been chasing all season.
And everyone else goes on with their own lives; prepping, attempting to flirt, talking about their past and the future.
The Bear 4.10
The first 30 minutes of Season 4 finale “Goodbye” happen in the back smoking area in real time; a raw conversation between Syd and Carmy, later joined by Richie, trying to work out their issues with the restaurant management and their often-stunted communication, bringing up years-old misunderstandings which caused deep wounds which haven’t fully scarred over.
At one point Syd asks incredulously “Who the fuck has time for gestures?” and this episode surely doesn’t.
Half an hour in Sugar comes out to join them, and the conversation soon ends, leading to a few Chicago nightscapes and our first clock, showing 01:11AM (we’ve actually seen this clock before in 2.03 “Sundae”), before the restaurant clock beaming the same over an empty kitchen leads us into the final montage, and the season’s clock finally hits 0000:00:00
