Jeremy Allen White (Carmy) and Ayo Edebiri (Syd) in The Bear. Credit: Disney+ How’s your stress level? So high you’ve accidentally locked yourself in a walk-in cooler at your new, high-end restaurant? This is where season two of the critically acclaimed TV series, The Bear , left its hero, Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), in the final episode, with Syd (Ayo Edebiri) holding the fort. It was nail-biting stuff, but was it comedy? I only ask because as the award-wreathed show enters its third season, it will once again compete at the Emmys in the best comedy category.
Sure, it’s funny in parts – Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s Richie and Matty Matheson’s Fak are the double-act du jour – but The Bear is other things, too: a story about trying to overcome the pain in your past and finding a new way forward as well as being a vehicle for some of the best food porn on TV outside of Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy . It might not make me laugh like a real comedy should, but what it does – like any good restaurant – is leave me wanting more. And lucky for us, as season three gets under way, we learn that season four has reportedly already been shot.
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