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Feed the Beast

★ 6.7 4K votes 2016–2016 1 season · 10 episodes Canceled AMC
Criminal underworldOrganized crime, gangs and the criminal life seen from the inside.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10GrittyRaw, unglamorous realism in both look and subject matter.This show: 7/10
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Starring
David SchwimmerJim SturgessLorenza IzzoMichael GladisJohn DomanChristine Adams
Written by
Clyde Phillips
Starring
David SchwimmerJim SturgessLorenza IzzoMichael GladisJohn DomanChristine Adams
Written by
Clyde Phillips
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
063125188250

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About

"Friendship, debt, and grief served with dinner"

Feed the Beast follows two lifelong friends, a talented but troubled chef and a sommelier drowning in debt to a local crime boss, as they try to open a restaurant in the Bronx while grief, addiction, and old wounds threaten to sink them. The tone swings between gritty crime drama and food-world melodrama, leaning heavily on its two leads' chemistry and simmering tension. Pacing is slow and moody, more interested in atmosphere and personal unraveling than plot momentum, which makes it a mixed, sometimes frustrating watch despite flashes of real intensity.

Watch it for

the raw, committed performances anchoring an otherwise uneven crime-and-cuisine drama.

Maybe skip if

you want tight pacing, since the mix of grief drama and crime plotting drags.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12016
7.91K107h 3m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Pilot Light7.2
22645 min
▶2Father of the Year7.7
17242 min
▶3Screw You, Randy7.8
15142 min
▶4Secret Sauce7.6
13142 min
▶5Gimme a T8.2
12242 min
▶6The Wild West7.6
10942 min
▶7Tabula Rasa8.2
11642 min
▶8In Lies the Truth8.3
11342 min
▶9Be My Baby8.5
10842 min
▶10Fire8.2
11442 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

David Schwimmer Tommy Moran
Jim Sturgess Dion Patras
Lorenza Izzo Pilar Herrera
Michael Gladis Patrick Woichik
John Doman Aidan Moran
Christine Adams Rie Moran
Elijah Jacob TJ Moran
Vickie Warehime Jensen
Evan Leone Gekko
Michael Rispoli Detective Guy Giordano

Crew

Clyde Phillips

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