“ is coming.” These four words were among the very last featured in the first season of FX’s , the Emmy-winning “comedy” about a highly accomplished chef who returns home to Chicago to take over his family’s sandwich shop after the death of his brother. And while season two fulfilled the promise of those four words, turning the shop into a full-on restaurant, they remain as relevant as ever now as the third season of the critically acclaimed (and extremely stressful) series looms large over the rest of this summer.
All 10 episodes of binge drop at 9 p.m. ET on June 26, as .
It’s easy enough to just pop back into the show and eat all servings in one shot, right? Wrong. Technically, you could hit play and let it go until 3 or 4 in the morning. You spend opening weekend watching all the new installments and let that be that.
But doing so without revisiting the 18 existing episodes of would be a mistake — one almost as severe as leaving a pack of cigarettes on an oven during a health inspection. Don’t get the reference? Then you need to brush up on your lore. Lord knows, there’s a bunch of it.
begins with series lead ‘s Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto sifting through the wreckage left behind by his brother Mikey (Jon Bernthal), who died by suicide some months earlier. Carmy is determined to take his late sibling’s hole-in-the-wall spot from a neighborhood Italian beef sandwich institution to a whole new level of restaurant, one more consistent with his experie.
