![]() She’s part of the new family Carmy forms for himself, as he struggles to deal with the grief from his brother’s death. The show’s conscience comes in the form of Sydney, a trained chef, who buys into Carmy’s vision, and works with him at the restaurant, but refuses to partake in the “toxic hierarchical shit show”. The question it seems to ask is how many idealistic and talented young people like Carmy the industry will chew up and spit out. A gun is brandished at one point by a disgruntled chef.Īt the end of each night Carmy returns to his squalid apartment and wolfs down peanut butter and jelly sandwiches – the only thing he’s not too exhausted to make and light years from the fare he’s striving for at the sandwich place.Īt times the clamour and shouting can be a little hard to watch – the moving shots and fast chatter have shades of Aaron Sorkin’s work – but The Bear works brilliantly as a portrait of the kind of dogmatic zeal and self sacrifice it takes to make a go of it in the food business. His sister, who is confused at his determination to salvage the family business, calls him a bitch too. One new employee tells him he cuts vegetables “like a bitch”. The kitchen staff are suspicious of their new boss and the place is so far into the red that Carmy has to sell off parts of his vintage denim collection to buy filling for the sandwiches and pay the workers. The restaurant, which specialises in gloriously messy beef sandwiches, is, Carmy learns, hopelessly in debt to creditors, the taxman, and even a fast talking relative who appears on the first day and claims he’s owed a small mortgage. We follow Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), a chef and a veteran of brutal fine dining kitchens, who returns home to Chicago to resurrect the restaurant left behind by his brother, Mikey, who we soon learn, died by suicide. The Bear, a new FX/Hulu series (showing here on Disney+) conjures the behind the scenes stresses of a restaurant so well that I, some 20 years removed from my career as a student-waiter, was having flashbacks to dashing through a crowded kitchen like a person being shot at from a helicopter. If you’re not worried, how do you know what you’re aiming for?’ ![]() ![]() Playwright Sonya Kelly: ‘Despair is your friend.Movie review: David O Russell’s Amsterdam is all set-up and no pay-off.
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