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Why Are Episodes of ‘The Bear’ So Short for a TV Drama? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. The new FX Hulu
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Speaker 1: drama The Bear is arguably the show of the summer
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Speaker 1: and breaks new ground in a number of ways, including
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Speaker 1: being one of only a handful of dramas ever with
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Speaker 1: episodes that clock in around a half an hour, with
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Speaker 1: one running barely twenty minutes long. The old way of
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Speaker 1: thinking was that you can't build enough tension and connect
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Speaker 1: viewers emotionally without a full hour, but The Bear proves
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Speaker 1: that's not true. It's show runner Joanna Kalo says the
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Speaker 1: team knew they could pull it off because they trusted
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Speaker 1: in their cast and crew. She tells Hollywood Reporter, we
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Speaker 1: believed we would tell the story because the actors we had,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes these episodes turned out to be small amounts
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Speaker 1: of story, but we knew with the talent in these people,
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Speaker 1: these stories would shine through and try to create something different.
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Speaker 1: We wanted to tell stories in our own way. Plus,
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Speaker 1: with all the tension, would you really want to be
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Speaker 1: in that kitchen for more than a half hour at
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Speaker 1: a time. The Bears on Hulu that's direct from Hollywood,