Another Serving of The Bear |
In the last season of The Bear, brilliant but troubled Chicago chef Carmy was stressing about the opening of his new fine-dining restaurant. His creative partner/confidant/friend Syd was debating whether to leave the Bear and strike out at a different restaurant. Family friend Richie was trying to find his place as the maître d’hôtel. And all three are still doing the same things in The Bear season four, writes Richard Lawson, in another run of episodes that lacks forward momentum. This season, “Wheels spin and spin and spin until there is a climactic fight/reckoning/reconciliation that probably should have happened last season,” he writes. “I’m all for challenging television conventions, but The Bear’s iconoclasm would ideally be housed in something less tedious and self-regarding.”
Elsewhere in HWD, David Canfield previews a gripping new Jason Bateman/Jude Law series; Chris Murphy takes us through new offerings on Netflix next month; Anthony Breznican examines the creatures in Pixar’s Elio; and Allison Williams goes long on M3GAN 2.0. |
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