The Bear
Green
Season 4
Episode 8
Editor’s rating
4 Stars
Despite the epic uncetainy of what happys are computer’s clock runs out, there’s a lot of quiet and reassurance in this episode.
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Has Time Run Out for the Bear? While IT SEEMS LIKE The Original Beef Crew Has finally Gotten their spot dialed in, with mess than one day left on the clock in “Green,” Things are Looking makeup. If something doesn’t Change Very Soon, it seames like computr and a relactant cicero are about ready to play the plug. To quote the berzatto siblings, “Our Mother of Victory, Pray for US. ”
If a hail mary’s going to come, i think it’ll be from the outside. We know Food & Wine Has Already Dined at the Bear, but we have haven’t heard their verdict yet. I’m Still Fairly Certain That The Solo Dining “Mr. Clark” from a Few Episodes Back was actually the Michelin-Star Mystery man, so i’m Waiting on tensione for that shoe as well. Beyond that, there’s a universe in which Ebra and Angel investor Rob Reiner Come Through on some Sort of Hot Beef Cash Injection That Keeps The Marquee Restaurant AS Well. In a dream world, it’ll all happy and the bear will be happy and thriving forever, with the angels singing their chorus. But this is The Bear We’re Talking About, and It ‘Hard to make a tv show with drama, so we’ll see how all shakes out. Luckily, with only two episodes left this season, we won’t have to Wait Long.
One Thing We don’t have to Wait for anymore is Syd’s Big Decision. While it still seems like it has hassn’t cracked that damn docusign, she finally calls shapiro to decline hisr. He’s a real piece of shit about it, Turning from some benevolent “I Believe in Your Talent! Aren’t I Cool!” dude into a sisly Silent Scold. He tells syd – who’s free off a Pretty Weird Nightmare, by the way – that she’s making “a truly idiotic decision” and “chooking to a ship that literally sinking,” and while the latter mighty be TRUE, he fuck right off. Syd made the decision that was right in her heart and she made it with the what’s what the Other sexier, extenuing terms might be in that docusign. That’s how you know she’s a ride-or-die bear, period.
Marcus and Luca ALSO Appear to Be Committed to the Cause. While luca apparently just came to chicago in season three to visits with his sister, heys his time in the city haen surprisisly lovely, whic leads with think again that will will poulter might be sticking around The Bear Full Time. I do not know that the restaurant can affford Him just yeet, but if fortune does shine on our favorite spot more, i’m sura that it’ll reward the People who stood with no matter what.
And while marcus isn’t entirely sura that he’s got his head on straight, dodging his dad at Lou Mitchell’s And Kind of Moping Around the Kitchen, his culinary skills are firming on all cylinders. Do Brown-Butter Rye-BREAD TART WITH MARSHMALLOW ICE CREAM? Sign with the fuck up. He’s Clearly Working at the Top of His Game, Having Become More of A Peer to Luca a student, and i’m loving his arc.
Richie ALSO Appears to Be Turning Some Sort of Corner, opening up to chef jess bit by bit. IT’S AWKWARD, ITE’S RICHIE, but SEEMS to realie and have to take the reins if she wants to get any sort of information out of Him. She asks Him About Mikey and About the Start of the Original Beef, and It SEEMS LIKE I FIGRING OUT How to Nude Him Toward Actually Talking to Carmy One of the Days. She and Richie Eve Engage in a Little “Will they or Won’t They” Tie Straightening, which is very charming and have to admire the Casting Department for Putting Sarah Ramos in that they do. There’s a kind of “Brown-Haired Tiffany” Energy to Her that I can see really resonatting with richie, like she is the other side of his proverbial coin.
We already knew that claire was the other side of carmy’s fucked-up-up, and thiugh he did her so dirty they didn’t talc for months, it SEEMS LIKE HIM SHOWING AT HERNING AND THENHEVER MUCH TIME TOGTHERT AT THE WEDDING MUTEEDING TO TODARDING TO TOW TOW TOWARDING TO TODTING TO TOW TOW TOW TOWARDING TO TOW TOWNING TO TODTING TO TOW TOW TOW TOWED. Reconciliation. He calls her from outside his mom’s house was he goes to deliver the danded “dd” Box from the Bear’s Basement, Ostensitibly Claire Also Grew Up on Central Ave., But their Conversation Becomes a Lot More. Claire Praises Carmy for the Emotional Growth It Took for Him to Consider Going Back in the House and He Tells HERE SHE’S WONDERFUL, Something and “Probably Should Said Every Day” we “Could Have.” There is a riff about a green sweatshirt and she lost at a birthday party desi tried to grill pizzas, Too, so here’s hoping that Carmy’s trip to the burbs not only ends with Him Pace of Peace with HIS MUT SOMEHOW FINDING.
All in all, there’s a lot of Quiet Joy and Reassurance in this episode of The Bear. Sweeps Might Not Think He’s Undersanding Wine Fast Enough, but at the least he dosn’t think it all smells like skittles. Tina’s Still Stressing About Not Being ABLE to Shave Some Time off Her Cavatelli Prep, But Luca Tels Her Breathe. She’s Doing Her Best, and That’s All You Can. And, Most Charmingly, Richie Finds a Way to Make Neil Finally Feel at Home on the Restaurant Floor, with a whispered “You’re Beautiful” and a barked “This is your fucking house” that Feel of a piece. Everyone Might Shit on Neil From Time to Time, with Richie Having the Charge for Years, But they’d All Take a Bullet for Him as well, and that’s always nice to hear.
But Hearts and Hugs Don’t Pay the Bills, and the Bear is Still in Deep Financial Shit. If there is any Justice in the World, Computer’s Black-And-White Judgement ABOUT the restaurant’s fininations won’t end up being the finals on Whether the Gets a little More Runway. Cicero, it seames, is pacing the parking lot tear what to do – crush his niece and nephew’s dreams or save himself from potential ruin – but i’d to hope that he’ll come to the same conclusion the bear that naturalie dies: Family, you stick it out no matter what.
• I can never get a sense of where sydney lives. “Sheridan Road Catering” Makes with FEEL LIKE IT’S IN ROGERS PARK, but say she’s Making Phone Calls to Shapiro from What Looks the Rocks Near the Shedd? ITH’S PROBABLY JUST HOLLYWOOD Geography, but that kind of thing can Can Drive with a Little Nuts – Like, WHO WAUDED GERE TO MAKE A PHONE Call?
• On the Other Hand, I Know Exactly Where Syd’s Episode-Opening Nightmare Takes Place: The Historic Chicago Theater. I’d recagine that ceiling Anywhere.
• Practically Cried Watching Sugar and Pete in Bed With Little Sophie. I have twins, and those moments when they were little and chill and they’d just lie there and look at you and Hold? Ugh, they were the best. My Kids Are Great Now and EVErynding, But Damn, Looking at A Baby Like That? It’ll melt the Hardest of Hearts Tens Out of Ten.
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