#HEALTHY WHITE FISH SERIES#
The subject - the one real weak point of Season One - quickly gets yada-yada’ed in the premiere.Īnd as our heroes attempt to balance the books on this very risky business venture, the series is running its own kind of cost-benefit analysis about the arts - culinary or otherwise. (*) If you are waiting for a more detailed explanation about how and why Mikey was hiding the cash in the tomato sauce cans, be prepared for disappointment. Cousin Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) still feels out of place and purposeless in the new world Carmy is creating out of the Beef, Tina and Marcus are still amazed by the way Carmy and Sydney have helped them think about food, Uncle Jimmy (Oliver Platt) is still breathing down Carmy’s neck about the money Mikey owed him(*), and Carmy’s sister Natalie (Abby Elliott) is still struggling to be seen from under the long shadows cast by both her living brother and her dead one.
#HEALTHY WHITE FISH PROFESSIONAL#
Sydney’s professional ambition and personal anxiety continue to be at war with each other. Carmy is still consumed with grief over the suicide of his brother Mikey ( Jon Bernthal), and still struggles to take pleasure in anything, least of all his own culinary genius. Carmy, Sydney, and the gang are still justifiably harried throughout.Īs the new season tracks The Original Beef of Chicagoland’s transformation into The Bear, it explores many of the same conflicts and themes as the first one did. It’s also a more frequently funny show(*), where the near-constant series of kitchen calamities are designed to elicit laughter more often than angst - for the audience, at least. The new season has its moments, and even whole episodes, that might not be healthy viewing for anyone under a cardiologist’s care, but the tone is often much lighter, and at times plain joyous.
Mostly, though, it was because The Bearcreator Christopher Storer has other things on his mind this year than giving viewers a never-ending case of the sympathy sweats. I was just happy to be back there, among these people. Part of it was simply that I, like chef Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas) and baker Marcus (Lionel Boyce), had grown used to how things worked under Carmy’s leadership, and had learned to embrace the restaurant at its most frantic. What in the Windy City was happening here? How could I possibly feel so giddy, and even relaxed, while watching the most stressful scripted show on television? As everyone kept talking and shouting over one another, and as Carmy kept adding to the seemingly endless list of repairs and expenses in his immediate future, I should have gone into a second-hand panic attack like the ones the first season so often gave me. An early scene features Carmy ( Jeremy Allen White), Sydney ( Ayo Edebiri), and the rest of the restaurant dramedy’s colorful group of characters arguing over everything they will need to do and spend in order to transform Carmy’s family’s decaying old sandwich shop into the fine dining establishment of his and Sydney’s dreams. A very strange thing happened to me early in the second season premiere of FX’s The Bear.
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