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“The Bronx is the new Brooklyn,” we’re told over and over again, and the new restaurant, Thirio - which Sturgess and Schwimmer pronounce cumbersomely with swollen tongues - will be so amazing that it’ll become essential to early gentrifiers. The majority of restaurants fail within five years, but Dion promises that their upscale eatery will be so profitable he can pay the 600 grand he owes the Tooth Fairy. Squeezed hard by the local capo (Michael Gladis), who’s nicknamed the Tooth Fairy for his love of pliers as a torture device, Dion fast-talks his friend Tommy into finally opening their dream restaurant together.

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Last night’s series premiere, which will be followed by the second episode on Tuesday (the show’s regular night), tackled issues of race, crime, gentrification, grief, and sex with the subtlety of a hook through the head. The food porn is admittedly enticing, but the real reason you’ll want to shame-eat a tray of ziti while watching is to swallow the embarrassment you feel for everyone involved.ĭespite joking about how there are no white people in the Bronx, Feed the Beast focuses on two of them: lifelong friends Dion (Jim Sturgess), a chef and coke addict newly released from jail after burning down his last restaurant, and Tommy (David Schwimmer), a sommelier (ugh) and widower struggling to care for his traumatized 10-year-old son, TJ (Elijah Jacob).

Nearly every component of the show is at least five years past its sell-by date, from the orgasmic incantations of obscure ingredients and the arrogant antiheroism of the insufferable lead to the barely believable, well, everything else. Refried, warmed-over, undercooked, off-brand, stale - any number of unappetizing metaphors apply to AMC’s terrible new foodie/mobster drama, Feed the Beast.

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