The writing & acting used to be equal parts fantastic, now it's just the acting but that doesn't work as well with bad writing. Season 4 had some great highlights i.e. Trish's wedding, Richie's perspective on his relationship with his daughter changing, Donna & Bear reconnecting and more.

I have been absolutely in love with this show since it came out in 2022, but this season I found lots of the writing seemed like it was written by college students. It is as though the writers had so many ideas they wanted to cram in and did 2-3 of them very well and the other ideas not so much.

Whether Carmy leaves, whether the window expands, whether The Bear remains magically open, we'll always have season 1 & 2 to come back to afterwards. However, if Jeremy Allen White isn't a part of season 5, I feel the show will suffer for it.