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White supremacist capitalist patriarchy and season 4 of The Bear

I hear folks who are absolutely pissed that it looks like season 4 of The Bear ended with a petulant Carmy who got knocked off his pedestal, running cos now he doesn't know what to do with himself. I hear the anger. I also viscerally raged as I binge watched last night. For me, a lot of this had to do with the idea that this white man who is so used to being excellent, now has to deal with maybe not being excellent. But instead of dealing, it looks like he's vanishing. Like his dad did. Repeating old patterns.

But on a very rough night's sleep worth of reflection, I've come to the conclusion that this is probably a legerdemain. Let me explain.

Carmy is part of a system - white supremacist capitalist patriarchy to be exact. And that system ascribes roles and expectations on everyone that gets subjected to it. Including white folks. I've talked about Carmy's racialisation here but the TLDR of it is that Carmy is part of the Italian-American community that has been assimilated into whiteness over time in America. As a white man he sits at the top of a racial hieriarchy with a history and current reality of horrendous violence and control. He grew up and worked in cultures that valorised a toxic, violent, white masculinity that expected him to perform excellence, dominate and control everything around him as a result.

The rest of us - particularly racialised women (I'm a non-Black, diasporic woman of colour so I can't speak to Syd's specific experience but I think this holds true for all WOC) - we are never expected to dominate. We are often expected to be excellent because of the time and resources invested in us by our parents and communities and because of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy's insistence that mediocrity is a luxury that only white folks get to enjoy without being penalised. This garbage catch-22 is most starkly articulated by Syd during her nightmare in 4x08 Green:

Syd: And then, you're gonna take a perfect little sliver of chive, put that all on top, and it'll be great. And of course, if your dish fails, its no worry at all, no trouble, really. You'll just be a complete waste of space and a failure and a disappointment to anybody who's devoted any time or energy to you.

So how does a white man like Carmy - who was never socialised to be of service in community, who was raised throughout childhood and his career to smoke others, to prove that he could smoke others ("fuck you, watch this") - how does that white man navigate a world where he's no longer the best? Where he's no longer in control?

If that white man was integrated and mature? Well he wouldn't have been trying to dominate in the first place. But for argument's sake and in this context, if this hypothetical white man was those things - integrated and mature - maybe, he might take a step back and let others lead.

But Carmy isn't integrated. He's not there yet. Realistically, he does have to unlearn a lifetime of abuse, socialisation, racialisation and his own dysfunctional coping strategies so that he doesn't keep hurting people. He does have to figure out who he is without all of this bullshit. Honestly, as infuriating as this was to watch...I get it?

The frustration is that we, the viewers, have seen all the characteristics that Carmy identifies in Syd in that fight from 4x10, in him too. In 4x10, Carmy tells Syd:

You are considerate. You...You allow yourself to feel things, right? You allow yourself to care. You are a natural leader and teacher.

Across this show, we have seen Carmy be considerate of others, most significantly of the BIPOC people in his life (bringing all the crew at The Beef over with him to The Bear, giving his chef's knife to Tina, making Sydney The Bear's captain), we have seen him deeply feel (see Carmy's long overdue confrontation of his abuser, Chef David Fields in 3x10), we have seen him care (see Carmy's incessant checking in with Syd throughout this show), and we've seen him lead and teach his team (see Carmy walking the crew through how to make chicken piccata in season 1).

We know that Carmy is good. We know that he's deserving of Syd's love and that she is more than deserving of his. We know that folks can chew gum and walk at the same fucking time and so we - I mean most definitely me - yell at the TV screen (and on this platform lol): WHAT THE FUCK MAN? GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER AND BE THERE FOR SYDNEY, THE OTHER HALF OF YOUR HEART!!!!

But Carmy, and a lot of other straight, white men (and white women, quite frankly), probably don't know this about themselves. They probably don't know that its not being a soft shitty bitch when you're considerate of others, that you can feel hurt and pain and survive it, that you can care about others and have that be a strength, and that you can lead quietly and consistently without swinging your dick and trying to smoke motherfuckers.

I mean, America. Look at who the majority of white voters - that's white men and white women - elected to lead your country, for fucks sake.

This is white supremacy culture at work. This is the Berzatto's intergenerational, racialised trauma at work. White supremacist capitalist patriarchy facilitates the conditions for white people to not know themselves in their wholeness. To not know who they are in relation to others and the world. In fact, it invites everyone into this condition (via assimilation). So how do you resist it?

Integration time

How will Carmy fix it? How will he integrate?

Carmy will need to learn about himself. In 4x09 Tonnato, Donna tells him that she doesn't know him and he doesn't know her. This is true.

There is work to be done here in terms of understanding his lineage and the history that makes up Carmy's very skin and bones. But he has already begun doing this: Carmy knowing about tonnato because of his culinary training and imparting that cultural knowledge to his Italian-American mother because she's lost that knowledge or never had it to begin with made me tear up because THIS is the work of integration. Of reclaiming your history. Of resisting assimilation. It fucking hit me in the chest, right in my displaced, diasporic heart.

If Carmy was paying attention, he would have also seen Richie doing this throughout season 2. Recall his basement chat with Carmy in 2x01:

Richie: You know, um, I'm trying really hard to be on board with all this new shit, cousin. I'm, uh, I'm reading a lot. I'm trying to learn about who am I to my history.

Likewise, Sydney spent all of season 2 studying and integrating her past trauma into effective leadership for her team. I know for certain that we are going to learn and see more about Sydney's history in season 5 (if the show gets picked up again) and how this has influenced her professionally and personally.

But then what? What will Carmy do after he's undertaken that work?

This is where Luca's plotline is crucial and not just as a vehicle for us to gush over him and Marcus (which, yes, I gushed. I'm still gushing. They're adorable, supportive of one another and an indecently attractive couple).

Recall the conversation between Luca and Tina in 4x08 Green:

Luca: Pressure.

Tina: How do you get rid of it?

Luca: I think you get to a point where you don't want to. Like, at first the pressure sucks, right? Its the pressure that makes you feel shitty at what you do. And actually, thats just the pressure getting in the way. You learn to live with it. And then, next thing you know, you thrive on it. And before you know it, you can't fucking wait to get rocked. Like, you want that pressure, you need that pressure to be able to perform.

Tina: *looks dubious* (me and you both my Queen lmao)

Luca: So, then, the challenge actually becomes, can you live without that pressure?

Tina: Can you?

Luca: I guess not. 'Cause I'm back here working for Carmy again, so...I'm probably not the person to ask, but you let me know if you find out, Chef.

What Luca is describing, a state of not being able to wait to get rocked? That might be fine every now and then for motivation's sake. But what Luca is describing is a state of mind that folks are expected to be in for the duration of their working lives. He's telling Tina how to survive if she wants to remain working in this system. Wanting to get rocked, learning to live with getting rocked sounds the tagline for any ad selling white supremacist capitalist patriarchy to the masses: With our centuries-old system, you too can learn how to tolerate getting fucked, regularly!

Problem is, we are humans, not replicants (shout out to Richie and Phillip K Dick), and we don't take kindly to being fucked every day of our working lives. The Bear knows this too. Recall Mikey answering Tina's question about whether he likes his work, in 3x06 Napkins: "I definitely do not like never not being fucked."

So the question is, once you become accustomed to this way of life, like Carmy has, like Luca was, like many of us are, can you conceive of a different world? A different way of being?

I know Luca tells Tina in the above convo that he isn't there yet but truthfully, he is. Luca comes back to Chicago to "address things and not run away from things" as he tells Marcus in 4x08 Green. Those things involve his family, namely his sister. He's there to address something to do with his roots. In doing so, he says its made him appreciate the city. He, like Richie, is doing the work of learning about who he is to his history.

To give himself the space to do this, he's come to The Bear to work as a stage - one of the lowest level staff in the hierarchy of a restaurant. This is someone who once worked as a sous at Ever - ranked the best restaurant in the world at one point. He's using the skills he has acquired in the course of his pretty decorated career to support others who have not yet had the same opportunities as him.

Luca is at The Bear, doing the quiet, consistent work I've previously talked about: that work that creates the safe space for inspiration, creativity and dreams to thrive. This is the work of being in community. Luca is in community with Marcus, with Tina, with Gary, with Carmy, with Sydney. He is - without ego - supporting and mentoring Tina and Marcus. Luca is resisting (whether consciously or unconsciously) a white supremacist capitalist patriarchal system that would ordinarily demand that he dominate The Bear's kitchen. In doing so, he's being a good culinary ancestor. Next season, should we get it, it will be Carmy's turn: to come back integrated, sure in himself and without ego, to be there to support (in any way she requires it) Sydney.

And by the way, for the record:

In a world where Black women were the single biggest voting block consistently and overwhelmingly using their generations-long-fought right to vote to protect America from itself fascism in 2016 and 2024, this statement from Carmy:

[A]ny chance of any kind of good in this building, it started when you walked in. And any possibility of it surviving? Its with you.

….is as much about the salvation of The Original Beef of Chicagoland's soul by Sydney, as it is about the United States of America’s by Black women.

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Sydney Adamu and Richie Jerimovich in Season 4 of THE BEAR

#lights this season.#the bear season 4 #the bear fx #the bear #the bear hulu

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PHEW @bioloyg nailing it like always.

Whatever grows together, goes together

I originally wrote this as a response to someone wrt to the S4 finale, but I want it to end up in the tags so I can see what the people think, so I'm posting it as a stand alone.

I’m going to say something controversial yet brave. I actually don’t it’s that deep and I’m gonna explain why [I don't think Carmen leaving is permanent].

The season starts off with Carmen and Mikey in the kitchen and Carmen is trying to sell Mikey on the idea of a restaurant because they make people happy. They make them feel less alone. And in Napkins last season, we see Mikey talk to Tina about his envy of Carmen being the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do, did it, and was good at it. Smash cut to Natalie telling Carmen it’s okay if he fell out of love, and then Carmen telling Sydney that that’s what happened.

Carmen says two things about his leaving. First, that he doesn’t know who he is outside of the kitchen. Second, that he’s going to get them out of debt. Now, in the background of this entire season we have Ebra making business moves for The Beef window, and by the end of the season we see that it’s such a good idea to franchise that even The Computer gets a pep in his step and tries to convince Jimmy to get out of the car to hear the business pitch. And in earlier seasons, Carmen had talked to (I think Mikey?) about franchising. THAT is the way they get out of debt, and as far as we see on screen, Ebra hadn’t yet asked Carmen for his blessing on moving all of that forward.

So, of the two things Carmen mentioned needing to be locked, one of them is already squared away, and even if it wasn’t, the conversation between Computer and Natalie where they’re financially in the green and getting better suggests that while it’s batshit insane to keep running, they could do it. That just leaves Carmen finding himself, right?

This entire season, we see Carmen make an actual effort to get better wrt to communicating and being supportive of the people at The Bear — not just Sydney, but everyone. And parallel to that, these themes of family and togetherness keep popping up in the background. Marcus and his dad, Syd and hers, Richie v Frank with Eva, Carmen with his mom, like everyone has to contend with what family is to them. And then we have Sydney tell Donna that your work family is kinda an extension of your family family and Natalie looks at all of the crew photos when Computer asks why the fuck they should keep doing this, and she doesn’t outright say it but the reason you keep going is for your family! The reason Sydney stays at The Bear is because of her family!

Season 3 makes it pretty clear that Carmen is going to step away, because that’s what Chef Terry does with Ever. And she’s the ONE good role model Carmen ever had. And in that conversation, her desire to leave boils down to a desire to LIVE, and that’s something Carmen has never really done in an untainted way. Even in Copenhagen, where he was thriving and enjoying himself, he was thriving but he was doing what he was doing to prove a point to the universe. And he admits to Sydney that his tendency to do that is what’s killing them all of the time. It’s even part of why he gets so weird about Sydney being better than him, which he is finally big enough to admit.

So yes, he leaves. And I can see the mental calculus he did for “I’ll never leave you alone again” here, reasoning that because you’re never alone in a restaurant Syd isn’t alone. Because she has everyone else at The Bear (completely oblivious to the fact that she wants HIM there too but we’ll get there). But, I don’t think that means he’ll stay gone, and since this is gotten long winded I’m just gonna bullet point the reasons why I think that:

He can’t leave his family a second time, but he does need to choose himself over his family (and for real this time).

He actually has to leave in order to get over the guilt of feeling like he left everyone to deal with Mikey - thereby making him undeserving of being at the funeral.

If he is ever going to fall in love with cooking again, the thing that everyone seems to agree that he was born to do, he has to fall in love with it on his own terms for his own reasons without the goal being to prove something (to Mikey)

They’re gonna franchise like he wanted to, and I think in breaking the cycle like Lee was talking about, Carmen needs to leave the fucking scene of the crime and go work at one of the other places or manage The Bear from afar. Which doesn’t mean staying gone, it just means taking on a role a la Shapiro

Which brings me to the real reason I don’t think Carmen can stay gone and one of the funniest things about his fight with Sydney. When Carmen is being catty about Shapiro, after they’d already established Carmen is leaving for sure and explained why, he takes like a dedicated moment to laugh and say he knows he’s better than Shapiro. That he could smoke him. And he’s so certain about that because Sydney is even better, and she makes him better at this! He wouldn’t even want to do anything without her. He is literally leaving the dream he had with his brother TO HER because she’s the only person he can trust to just fucking let it go so he can breathe for a minute. But this bitch of a man promised he wouldn’t leave her alone, and his family and all of the other people he loves and wants to support are there. And so between his innate competitiveness, the promises he’s made to “water the plants Georgie” and the fact that - much like Sydney - everyone would give him insane amounts of grief if he stayed gone…. I think that he’s just gonna end up on sabbatical and come back.

Like, at the end of the day, this is a TV show about cooking and family. Nat left her day job to step foot in a demon restaurant. I don’t think there’s a way for Carmen to leave and stay gone for good without the series ending. And I don’t think that’s what he wants, either because in his heart of hearts Carmen is a creative. He needs an outlet. And Luca says it best, the problem with pressure ultimately becomes the fact that you can’t seem to work without it at a certain point, not that you can’t work under it. And if he represents the best version of Carmen (and Shapiro the worst), and Sydney is the even better version that Carmen aspires to be…. His ass isn’t staying gone! He’ll fall right back into this trap like the two of them. Only this time he’ll be a better partner.

Whatever grows together goes together, and right now, Carmen has growing to do (again), before he can return to his family. On his own terms this time.

#the bear #the bear fx #the bear hulu #sydcarmy #the bear season 4

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"What is it then? You're leaving."

"Syd, you don't need me."

"I know I don't need you, but that's not the point. You're supposed to fucking be here. And you self-sabotage and you run away when things are good and its not fucking fair!"

"I know. I know that's what I do and I'm trying to break that!"

"So then why are you doing it?"

"I'm trying to change that okay?"

The logic of "I am trying to stop running away" by...running away.

Also this:

"You're my partner!" = you are my partner, in LIFE! I love you and I need you in my LIFE!

"I'm your friend!" = you don't need me, how can I be your partner if you don't need me?! I'm just your friend, Syd.

"You're not fucking acting like it!" = wait you're not my partner? ok let me walk that back while still being angry as fuck with you.

#shenanigans!!!!#shenanigans all around #i am actually regretting binging this fucking thing #lmao #sydcarmy #the bear #the bear fx #the bear hulu #the bear meta #carmy x sydney

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Might be an unpopular opinion but I finished season 3 feeling better about this show than I did with season 4.

Why the fuck are none of these episodes named?

I still think Sydcarmy is endgame in season 5 (which I'm guessing will be the end of the show).

I needed episode 10 to have been at the start of the season. The honesty we were all waiting for. The confessions of love and need. PHEW.

Anyway if folks were interested and ok with spoilers, I liveblogged my watch here.

Will elaborate on shit with metas at some point. Gonna go sleep now.

#the bear #the bear fx #the bear hulu #sydcarmy #the bear meta #sydney adamu #carmen berzatto #carmy x sydney #the bear season 4

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4x10 THE FIGHT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. CLOCK CARMY'S ASS, SYDNEY!!!

Soooo Carmy became a cook so he didn't have to do other things? He became a cook to vicariously deal with his issues around chaos and consistency without actually dealing with them? Sounds familiar!

Oh Sydney my heart is breaking for her bc what the fuck is this asssssssss.

Also Carmy throwing Shapiro's offer in her face excuse me sir you do not get to do that can you blame my beloved?!

THE ELEPHANT IN THE RESTAURANT!!!! YES SYDNEY!!!!

I have never wanted to throttle a fictional man so much as I want to Carmy right now shut the fuck up and listen to herrrrrrrrr!

"What is it then? You're leaving."

"Syd, you don't need me."

"I know I don't need you, but that's not the point. You're supposed to fucking be here. And you self-sabotage and you run away when things are good and its not fucking fair!"

"I know. I know that's what I do and I'm trying to break that!"

"So then why are you doing it?"

"I'm trying to change that okay?"

The logic of I am trying to stop running away by...running away.

Also this:

"You're my partner!" = you are my partner, in LIFE! I love you and I need you in my LIFE!

"I'm your friend!" = you don't need me, how can I be your partner if you don't need me?! I'm just your friend, Syd.

"You're not fucking acting like it!" = wait you're not my partner? ok let me walk that back while still being angry as fuck with you.

BIG THREE SHOWDOWN HERE WE GOOOOO

"SHE" was saying this thing?!

YES RICHIE ASK WHO IS SHE what the fuck Carmen.

LMAO these two dragging Syd for how bad she is at smoking.

AND YES SYDNEY CUTTING RICHIE INTO THE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT. Called that by ep 7 but hoped it was Carmy who would have done that. This woman stays being too good.

I needed this argument at the start of S4 lmao now I gotta wait a whole ass year before Carmy figures out who he is outside of the restaurant, realises he's in love with Sydney and that she loves him bc that woman loved and supported him at his fucking, myopic worst.

Caffeine, baked goods, comp for notes, tissues for inevitable emotional breakdown and My Grandmother’s Hands to help me ride the storm: The Bear season four binge survival kit

I’m gonna be live-blogging my reactions but will post them under #the bear spoilers and #the bear season 4 spoilers if you don’t wanna see them.

Alright.

Let’s fucking go Chefs!!!!!

#the bear spoilers #the bear season 4 spoilers

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LITERALLY THE SAME FUCKING PLOT.

Carmy getting with Claire because he doesn’t deserve his dream girl Syd 🤣

It’s so very 80s.

It’s literally the plot of Some Kind of Wonderful.

#sydcarmy

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"You didn't talk to me all service" "I don't like the way this feels" vs "I like this" SIR I KNOW YOU ARE BAD AT MATH BUT REALLY THIS BAD AT IT?!

#sydcarmy #the bear #the bear fx #the bear hulu #carmen berzatto #sydney adamu #carmy x sydney #the bear season 4 #the bear 4x10 #the bear 4x01

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4x09 Carmy and Syd both talking to the Berzatto Matriarch (Donna) and Patriarch (Jimmy) at the same time surely means nothing yes?

Syd x Jimmy getting me right in the feels but the first part of the dialogue in this one is off somehow. They're talking about two diff things here with the chat about restaurants, movies, theatres. BUT YES JIMMY GIVE SYDNEY HER FLOWERS.

"Your mother would be very happy with the way you turned out"/"Thanks Unc" GOODBYE /sob

Donna and Carmy chat. Dunno why but Carmy knowing about tonnato and imparting that cultural knowledge to his Italian-American mother bc of his culinary training and bc she's lost that or never had it to begin with is making me fucking tear up. Hitting me in the diasporic feels.

Carmen are you really trying to bail from your mother's house as soon as you see her crying over her dead son? Sir, please. That instinct to run is strong with this one.

Ooooo this Donna apology. In the feeeeeeeels. Ooompf Donna admitting she loves Carmy...and Natalie....and RICHIE. SAY IT DONNA. The Berzattos finally accepting and acknowledging him as their son/brother!

I AM LIVING FOR JEALOUS CHESTER ROFL and this Chester x Sydney debrief LOLOL

Tinaaaaaaaa got that pasta course down!

Ebraaaaaaaa creating opportunities! Yessssss the old guard are saving the day!!!!!

I know Carmy's smiling but there's something eerie about him being in his brother's room who died by suicide with a copy of Kitchen Confidential by Bourdain who also died by suicide, on the bedside table. Fuck.

Also Claire's sweater in Mikey's closet?! Get the fuck out. Were they fucking? Was she keeping him stocked with painkillers? What the fuck is going on lol.

Also how the fuck did I not clock that ROB REINER is playing Albert Schner?! Damn. The guest actors were big this season!

And Marcus getting that award! Called it! Sending that article to his dad. You did that Marcus!

And...Carmy's taken himself off the partnership agreement? Oooooh boy. Avoidance, my old friend...

One more episode to go chefs!

Caffeine, baked goods, comp for notes, tissues for inevitable emotional breakdown and My Grandmother’s Hands to help me ride the storm: The Bear season four binge survival kit

I’m gonna be live-blogging my reactions but will post them under #the bear spoilers and #the bear season 4 spoilers if you don’t wanna see them.

Alright.

Let’s fucking go Chefs!!!!!

#the bear season 4 spoilers #the bear spoilers

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4x08 beginning with Sydney’s barefoot-contessa-version of Carmy’s 1x08 nightmare…made me snort laugh before I could see the sea level rising outside, the masses breaking in and that blue bear torn to shit with ketchup (?) on the floor next to that three layer dish. This imagery is significant but I’m not sure how just yet. Sydney on a stage after we find out her mum was an actress….this dream sequence surely has to be a set up for Sydney-lore. If not this season then in season 5.

Also fuck you Shapiro! Suck it!!! What a mean, small, mean man. Why do I get the sense that he’s gonna have it out for The Bear next season.

Marcus out to deal with his father while Luca holds things down at his station…the Sydcarmy parallels are paralleling! It’s giving this season's 1x03 Brigade.

Luca x Tina! 🥹 but no to this lesson re: pressure. Don’t you encourage this Luca! Fuck that shit!

Richie x Sydney I love ❤️

Gary getting his wine palate on!!! Love to see his growth.

OMFG Carmy giving Sydney his spoon from Chef Terry. That’s big. That’s his emotional support spoon!!!

"I think you're wonderful" "Then go find my sweatshirt" get fucked lmao

Also the sparks keep coming bw Jess and Richie and Marcus and Luca.

"Why would you keep going?" for the family! /sob

Woop...Carmy/Donna heart 2 heart up next.

Caffeine, baked goods, comp for notes, tissues for inevitable emotional breakdown and My Grandmother’s Hands to help me ride the storm: The Bear season four binge survival kit

I’m gonna be live-blogging my reactions but will post them under #the bear spoilers and #the bear season 4 spoilers if you don’t wanna see them.

Alright.

Let’s fucking go Chefs!!!!!

#the bear season 4 spoilers #the bear spoilers

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4x07 was a hot fucking mess but not for the reasons you’d expect.

Seems like there’ll definitely be a season 5 bc we are still being baited with Cl@ire AND Syd admissions of her admiration and care for Carmy simultaneously…the love triangle is in full gear now people!!!

Also that meta where I said Donna was gonna pull some Lady Catherine de Bourgh shit?! Yeah pretty sure that’s still on the cards bc Syd was gushing about Carmy straight to his fickle mother’s face. She told Donna about the meal in New York, the best one she ever had. Donna is gonna say this to Carmy and it is going to kick off endgame Sydcarmy make no mistake!!!

Also I suspect that Carmy has changed the terms of the partnership agreement to include Richie. Which if so, I love. Because given how much he’s put in to the restaurant from before it was The Bear, that would be a sweet resolution.

I love the repeated nods to the quiet consistent work that lets talent and inspiration shine. Say it louder Carmy!

Things I’d rather not have had to deal with: that new under the table scene. Like I get it is meant to be a counter to the dynamics in Fishes. Here you have a group of adults not fighting, getting on the floor under a table sharing their fears etc to make sure one kid is OK, as compared to Fishes where all the adults were dysregulated, throwing tables and it was horrible and traumatic. Like yes The Berzattos are growing and breaking patterns!

But I dunno…something about it seemed forced and disingenuous. Maybe I’ll change my mind on a rewatch. Maybe it’s cos Claire was there.

Also that convo between Carmy and Lee. When do we see Lee and Donna’s reckoning? Not in terms of vengeance but in terms of accountability?

Anyway I’m pausing the binge cos life but will get back into it later.

Also we find out the drama between Francie and Nat and I was not expecting it but was happily surprised by the end of the ep!

Also I still love Pete.

Caffeine, baked goods, comp for notes, tissues for inevitable emotional breakdown and My Grandmother’s Hands to help me ride the storm: The Bear season four binge survival kit

I’m gonna be live-blogging my reactions but will post them under #the bear spoilers and #the bear season 4 spoilers if you don’t wanna see them.

Alright.

Let’s fucking go Chefs!!!!!

#the bear spoilers #the bear season 4 spoilers #sydcarmy #the bear #the bear fx #the bear hulu #the bear meta #sydney adamu #carmen berzatto #the bear season 4

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