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Jeremy Allen White’s hit recaptures its fire


In season 4 of The bearChef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) indicates the evidence. “I am not great with consistency,” he told Chef Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), his exceptionally talented partner who has long been suffering from the titular restaurant. This is not news for Syd, nor for fans of The bear himself. After having been acclaimed with two excellent seasons, the Culinary Dramatic of Chicago (Do’t @ Me) of the creator Christopher Storer fell in 2024 with a slow and self-indulgent third outing.

Many major shows make mistakes; Less can be the course of disappointment. Fortunately, The bear is one of them. Although they are not entirely at the level of the second sublime season, the new episodes put Carmen and Company on the right track by allowing them to confront, finally, “the elephant F — ING in the restaurant F — ING.”

As the trailer reveals, the Chicago tribune The revision was not a rave, and when we reach our leaders at the bear, everyone feels a little stuck. Carmen, having fallen asleep on the sofa, wakes up literally until Marmot day Playing on your living room television, while Sydney cannot still decide what to make the job offer of Adam Shapiro. Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) is struggling to find the perfectly inspiring words for his pre-service speeches for staff, but nothing seems well.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Jeremy Allen White in “The Bear” season 4.

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This stasis is broken, however, when the uncle Jimmy (Oliver Platt) and the computer (Brian Koppelman) arrive one morning and put an account with literal counts in the kitchen. If the bear cannot run things and start making money when the clock does not touch, the restaurant “must stop operations”, explains Jimmy. With the imminent deadline for this season in place, Richie recruits the staff of the House of Never – Jessica (Sara Ramos), Garrett (Andrew Lopez) and René (René Gube) – to serve so as to culinary Avengers and help bring the chaos of the operation. But as you may have guessed now, Carmy and his cooking family will not be able to make their restaurant a success until they discover who they are outside of its four walls.

Initially, the return of the staff who made me nervous; One of the greatest weaknesses of last season was an excessive exception on reminders The bearare the greatest successes. This year, however, the show establishes a much better balance between fans service (fun with faks!) And a momentum in advanced history. The new episodes just have enough of what we want from the series: these exciting and fast dinner service scenes, a band of Gen X carefully organized (REM, Talk Talk, The Prettenders, Bryan Ferry) and moments of classics Bear Cacophonie, with Richie and Carmen who abode from each other while Carmy’s sister, Sugar (Abby Elliott), already whistles to lower their voices F — ING.

However, season 4 is at its best when the cries stop and the cousins ​​are forced to listen – and be heard. The clocks are everywhere: the large black box with the seconds until the bear lacks money; a “12:00” turn signal on a vital domain; The Tina digital timer (Liza Colón-Zayas) uses when it tries to finish a pasta dish in less than three minutes. This type of imaging has always been a large pattern in The bear (Each second counts, after all), and now it extends beyond the kitchen, because the characters begin to understand that it is not only the restaurant that lacks time – it is all every day. The realization pushes several, Carmen included, to say the really frightening stuff aloud – in Syd, in Richie, and yes, even to her distant mother, Donna (Jamie Lee Curtis).

The superb episode in Camée becomes a Bear Tradition, and this season takes place during a festive rally where many Berzattos are present. Although celebrity observations are fun, the most powerful moment in the arrival of 69 minutes comes when two people, Carmen and a parent who will remain unnamed for reasons of spoiler, have a quiet conversation in an empty room. They speak of guilt, of the late brother of Carmen, Mikey (Jon Bernthal), and the importance of not “keeping just as locked”. The episode – which also presents a gain to a long -standing mystery and an impromptu family therapy session thanks to a nice supplement with the pandemonium of season 2. “Sometimes, to break the models, you have to break the patterns, guy.”

Ayo Edebiri and Liza Colón-Zayas in season 4 of “The Bear”.

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A simple conversation is also the centerpiece of the most unexpected and delicious episode of the season, written by Edebiri and Lionel Boyce, who plays The bearIntrospective pastry Passover, Marcus. In this document, Syd finds himself keeping the daughter of the tween of a friend, TJ (Arion King, a star in the making), and the two spend the afternoon talking about a pajama evening is not sure that she should witness it. At the end of their time together, Syd is able to sort the key questions she has about her own career.

Edebiri is a phenomenal talented comic actress; It can transform a punchline reaction shot with a sign of exasperated head. None of us can agree on if The bear is a comedy or a drama (I fall into this last camp), but little would dispute that it is currently the best made on television. White continues to find new ways to embody Carmy’s internal agitation and the miserable mine, and Mosses-Bachrach makes you richie wounded so palpable that when it is unleashed, we feel it like a punch with the intestine. Storers ensures that everyone overall stellar (and expansive) has time to shine, highlighting the serious ambition of the Cook Ebraheim line (Edwin Lee Gibson); The sweet way of sugar goes to Carmen in its darker moments; Tina’s maternal wisdom; And the comic relief chattering the FAK brothers (Matty Matheson and Ricky Staffieri).

Although this season is a great improvement compared to the winding season and filled with mounting that preceded it, The bear Always face rhythm problems. The large episode mentioned above certainly would have benefited from more time in the editing bay, and Storer always allows himself to make the show on the tangents. Sometimes these narrative adventures work (see: Kate Berlant, as a woman of the Al-Anon group in Carmy, absolutely crushing an episode opening monologue). More often, they slow down things (see: Carmy, in this same episode, making an excursion in a museum … for any reason).

“People go to restaurants to be taken care of,” said Carmen during the first of season four. There is a kind of tragic symmetry in the way Carmen Berzatto, a guy who grew up in household devoid of stimulation, later devotes his life to care to foreigners. The child may not be great with consistency, but he makes real progress. Grade: B +

Every 10 episodes of The bear Season 4 is now in trouble on Hulu.

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