AgGrad99 said:
Agreed about Sydney. I love nearly every character...or at least find them interesting, except her.
Sydney is just annoying. Her indecision was uninteresting and completely unwarranted. People get job offers...take the other job or dont, good gosh. And don't freak out when you're basically gifted a restaurant, a couple years after wandering in off the street. And while everyone has issues, she's perpetually mad and holding a grudge with someone, seemingly without the ability to talk through it with them.
Love the show. Love the characters...just not hers.
Her indecision is very warranted. She's trying to choose between people she obviously cares a lot about and a dysfunctional restaurant that also has a lot of potential and a position that seems incredible on the surface but comes with a lot more unknowns. That's a very tough decision with a lot of personal and professional implications.
She followed Carmy to The Beef because he's someone she looks up to professionally. Learning from him and being around a chef as good as him is a large part of why she's there in the first place. Of course she's going to freak out when he wants to walk away and leave it to her. Learning from his experience was why she was there in the first place, but now she's on her own in a somewhat prestigious but also incredibly challenging position that she probably feels unprepared for.
She's almost perpetually frustrated with Carmy because despite having a lot of professional respect for him, his personal problems continually create issues for her and the restaurant. His inability to lock in the menu to challenge himself is what drove them to the brink and hurt the review. He also proved unreliable personally throughout much of the renovation. She was being stuck with a lot of work and decisions because his mind was elsewhere and he was being a terrible partner. Despite promises to do better, he often falls short.
I think she's a great character