Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), left, and Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) are shown in Season 3 of FX's "The Bear." FX This article contains minor spoilers for Season 3 of “The Bear.” In one of the most discussed scenes near the end of the acclaimed second season of FX’s “The Bear,” chefs Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) take a moment to fix an uneven table together, a brief reprieve from the intense stress of preparing to launch their new restaurant.
As they do so, Sydney confides in Carmy about how she’s terrified of causing the restaurant to implode upon arrival. “You could do this without me,” she says. “I couldn’t do it without you,” he says.
“I wouldn’t even want to do it without you. You know, you make me better at this.” Advertisement “You make me better at this,” she responds.
“What if I just, like, completely melt? Like, I just fuck up and fail?” she asks him later. “I won’t let you,” he says. Carmy also presents Sydney with a gift: a monogrammed chef’s jacket, a token that marks her ascension as the new restaurant’s head chef.
I found the scene incredibly moving. As my heart swelled, it reminded me of “Mad Men” character Don Draper (Jon Hamm) placing his hand on top of Peggy Olson’s (Elisabeth Moss) as a sign of respect at the end of “The Suitcase.” It was one of the AMC show’s most memorable episodes, following the two during a tense and emotionally draining night of meeting a deadline for an ad campaig.
