The Bear season three review

In its prime it is the best show on television. However, the upcoming season has a sloppy feel, wasting its most talented actors, and closes terribly. There are only two episodes that stand out.

I’m going to be very critical of the show, The Bear since, whenever the series is on the air and it is truly amazing television. If the first season served the perfect foundation for the show, with a return of to the kitchen of a troubled Carmen Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) to The Beef, the hectic Chicago sandwich restaurant owned by his brother who passed away Mikey (Jon Bernthal) The second season improved it greatly. A few shows have the honor of having episodes well-known by their title and the second season’s Forks and Fishes did just that. They were original, creative and helped shape the often emotional and operatic tone of the show into a clever engaging drama. No wonder it’s the most talked about pop-culture phenomenon and is producing stars faster than the plates on the plate.

This is why The Bear returns for its third season with a different level of expectations. Pressure is among the main themes of The Bear. It presses its characters to the limit and presses them down and then we see the consequences when some flourish in crisis, while others fall apart completely. Season two concluded with Carmen ending up closing (most of) The Beef and preparing to open his own better-looking eatery, The Bear. However, his professional ambitions come with cost: he rushes to achieve greatness, at the expense of two of his most enduring relationships, which sabotage his connection with his girlfriend Claire (Molly Gordon) and the newly-reformed “Cousin” Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach).

Season 3 is in a difficult situation where Carmen is able to get what she would like professionally how far can the story take off? The show isn’t able to come up with the answer. The stakes are less. There are still financial issues however, they are of a different flavor. The later episodes are linked with a restaurant review scheduled for the near future that can be the difference between a successful or unsuccessful restaurant. The kitchen is managed by the same “dysfunctional family” that is to say that a character will tell the other character “shut the fuck-up” every time in per episode, but often more. But the seasons three and four were reportedly shot in tandem, and it is easy to see why, as for extended time frames the 10 episodes feel like the equivalent of half. It’s like The Bear has done what the most popular blockbuster franchises often do, and then split the later installments into two. I found the conclusion extremely frustrating.

One of the numerous debates that are regularly discussed about The Bear is that it continues to win prizes within the “comedy” category. This is funny because it’s completely absurd. It’s about despair and death in the same way as it’s about food. In this episode we have the Fak family are a part of a lengthy subplot which appears to suggest lightheartedness, but it drags on too long and distracts from the more serious themes that they are trying to bring to the forefront. Gallows humor is a aspect, however slapstick should be a different genre.

The season starts by introducing an episode which sets the tone. In a mostly non-interactive collage of all the previous chef roles we are able to know what brought him to the chef who he is today. There’s a sense of circularity of the season in general that keeps spiralling back to the thought that Carmen might be fated to repeat the mistakes he made. This puts her in a dilemma: a constant repetition is the detriment of convincing storytelling. It has to be able to move. This means that the wonderful Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) is a bit secluded in both the plot as well as, in some ways the whole season. What a shame.

Even when it does have some moments of excellence, The Bear is still one of the best shows on the air. In the event that this was a discussion of episodes in their entirety there are two that stand out as masterpieces. The first one is Napkins produced by Edebiri in the story we discover the story of how line cook and assistant chef Tina (Liza Colon-Zayas) was able to enter the tangled family of Berzatto family. The other is Ice Chips which is the work of two hands and a stunning one and where Carmy’s younger sibling Nat (AKA Sugar, played by Abby Elliott) goes into labor. In the event of revealing more information about either of them would be spoiling their however, both have their own recollections of the past, and refine The Bear’s romanticism into a pure and tender beauty.

When you watch The Bear, everyone is screaming at each other to “shut the down” (nobody is doing that) or expressing how the love they have for each other is overwhelming. The extremes are a great description of season 3, which flits between the two states. This is the type of show that instills a profound affection and, despite its flaws, I am extremely fond of The Bear. However this isn’t The Bear at its best.

The Bear is now on Disney+ now