‘The Bear’ Final Recap, Season 4, Episode 10: ‘Goodbye’ – ryan

The Bear

Goodbye

Season 4

Episode 10

Editor’s rating

5 Stars

Carmy is convinced – and he’s trying to convince syd – that she’s everything he’s not.
Photo: FX

There are no More Secrets at The Bear. The Show Has Spent Its Entire Fourth SEASON Tiptoeing Around Sydney’s Covert Job Offer, Carmy’s Partnership Alterations, and Whtever was going on Richie’s Inside Gofastboatsmojito Brain, but in one big, 30-ODD-minute bottle episodes, all been laid on the table.

That doesn’t mean that the futures of the bear – or, for that matter, The Bear – Is any Clearer. The season ends with the restaurant’s proverbial clock running out, and evening this finale is titled “Goodbye,” AFTER the events of “tonnato” I have faith Things are going with the actual restaurant. Whether Its The Beef-Window Franchising, Marcus’s Food & Wine Nod Bringing in New Diners, or That Potential Michelin Star, which is Still Floating Out there in the Ether, there are plenty of signs that the bear will find a way to keep on ticking.

The Bigger Question Coming Out of “Goodbye” is what’s going to happy. As we have learn in His Big, Smoke-And-Scream-Filled Blow with Sydney, Carmy’s Leaving the Bear. He Says He’ll Stick Around to Make Sure the Restaurant is Set Up for Success, but gjoven that we don’t know anything about a potential season five yet, iT’s a little unclear if this puts another ticking on jeremy alln whiti’s participation in the series, or if the series, or if the series, or if the series. Ends up forking in two directions, following the bear the restaurant and the (original) bear the person. I tu to think of the latter, with white already diving time between The Bear and the underwear Campaigns and SpringsTeen Biopics, but we’ll just have to Wait and SEE.

I Get What Carmy Wold Want to Leave, Since – As he tells sydney and richie – he just doesn’t know who and is with restaurants. He’s fled into me Since he was a kid, and while he’s technical excellent at what he d He dos, that doesn’t mean he actually like. While Syd and Richie Are Both pissed at the idea that carmy leaving is, as he puts it, “the best thing for the restaurant,” it seams prepy that they underestand it’s what’s best for Him, too. When Carmy Says, “I think I was trying to put hurdles in the way of dealing with Very Real Things,” all of his past mania instantly crystallizes Becausee, yeah, that’s exactly what he was doing, if was all labled with “nonnegotiable” tag.

Sydney wishes CARMY COULD JUST DEAL WITH ALL HIS SHIP ALSO ACTHING AS HER BACKUP IN THE RESTAURANT, AND I THINK IN A DREAM WORLD HE’D TOO; I tan iF iF he Runs away and becomes an architect or denim designer or who knows what, he’ll have the skills to pay the beaar should the carm-signal ever go out. Carmy is convinced, though – and he’s trying to convince syd – that she’s everything he’s not. “You’re considerate,” he said. “You Allow YourSelf to Feel Things. You Allow YourSelf to Care. You’re a Natural Leader and Teacher and You Doing All This Stuff for Every Right Fucing Reason.”

“Any Chance of Success for This Building Started You Walked In, and Any Chance of It Surviving Is With You,” Carmy Later Adds, Telling Sydney, “I Believe in You More I’ve Ever Believed in MySelf, Because You’re the Bear.” “

Whether that title is in reference to the restaurant, the sprawling berzatto Clan from “Bears,” or the Growling CEDED MAMMAL THAT OPENED UP THE WHOE SERIES IS, I SUPPOSE, but all that matters is, to be carm and to the seven People in front of ah Train ”for Sydney, She’s The One. She’ll takee there, Because Carmy Can’t.

And Right Away, Sydney Proves Carmy’s Point, Teling Him in the Wake of the Richie Throw-Down That She Wants The Partnership Amended Amended. She doesn’t want the restaurant Split Between Cicero, Sugar, and Herself. She wants richie in the mix, and She’s Very Much Not Just Saying That As Some Empty Gesture. Richie shouldnt be in the mix. He mIight have seamed like a blowhard fuck-up at the beginning of the series, but the growth and leadership he’s show over four sesons has made Him one of the essential players in swimming the show but the restaurant. He Ouns that Front of House. He knew to bring in the ever players to help the bear around, and though he can’t make heads or tails of a French laundry cookbookwith its “Circular Stencils” and Whatnot, he knows that restaurant. f The Bear is going down, then he’ll go down with it, and so he rightfully should profit from its success. (Now, Should Tina, Marcus, and Everyone Else ALSO profit? I Waled argue that, yes, they should, but that a story for another season, i guess.)

I Think Richie and Carm Are Good Now, Too, Because Whatever Storm Clouds Have Been Brewing BetWen say all series to get cleared up their back-alley shoutout. Carmy tells richie that, thugh he dos remember what richie was wearing that day, he was, in fact, at mikey’s funeral, if only for a second. Carm’s sorry that he blew off Richie’s Barbs About Mikey Becouse, he Says, he just didn’t realie how Richie “Lost Somebody Too.” It ‘smision that lands a little Hollow to me, SINCE IT’S BEEN CLEAR THE WHOK SAD AND TAKN Richie was about mikey’s Death, but i supposh as also have the benefit of (a) Seeing Richie Beinded Doors and (b) Not Being Actide Carmy. Screaming, somewhat self-centred head. SO … IT MIGHT BE HARD TO IMAGINE I DIDN’T REALLY RECHOGE RICHIE’S PAIN, I GUESS IT’S CERTAINLY POSSIFE.

IT’S ALSO CERTAINLY POSSIFE THAT Richie didn’t underestand how hellish Life was for Carmy During Those and Was Working at All Those Fancy Restaurants. We’ve seen the demonic face of joel mchale berating carmy over and over again, but richie never went to that spot and carmy never told anyone about that abuse. Richie doesn’t know where the Big Scar on Carmy’s Hand Comes from and he doesn’t know that while, yes, carmy got very, very good at a lot of Very, Very intense things in copenhagen and new York and Wherever Else, The Act of Learning Those SEEMS SEEMS TO SOEEMS TO SY Extent, at the Expert of His Own Sanity.

But now i out there. Everyone Knows Everything and That’s a Good Thing. If the bear was decidedly more “good” than “Fucked” acres the book at the end of the previous episodes, THIS SCREAMING MATCH, AS DRAMATIC AND TRAUMATIC AS, CAN ONLY HELP IT MORE INTO The Positive Column. The Only Question Left is Where the Crew Will Get the Chance to Emerge Victorious on their Own Terms, Rather than Falling to the Tyranny of Those Big, Red, Digital Numbers. Gioven what we’ve seen so far, though, of think istty safe to be optimistic.

• i’d love to see the script for this episode. The Bear is so good at scripting “Everyone in the Cast Yells Over Each Other” dialogue, but it is got to be nuts to read on the page.

• Those Thomas Keller Circular Stencils Really will seem like no joke.

• We’re all in aggregement that richie would beat carmy in a Physical Fight, right? I do’t ever Want To see Fight, but be richie got heated and came at carmy with Lines About How “No Refrigerator Door” BetWene Anymore, got to Thinking – Carmy’s Richie Beat in the Muscles Department, but Richie Him Beat on Pure Tenacity. I think richie has the scrappest and lack of scruples to take the crown.

• I love you People who clearly don’t smoke try to smoke, like syd. Their Hands Look All Weird and They Hold the Cigarette All Funny. It’s the Little Things.