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It’s Closing Time for The Bear
We don’t yet know whether season four’s ending is also a series finale, but it should be.
In other words, he ends the season expanding outward as a person, and in this sense, the finale mirrors the season-three premiere, “ Tomorrow,” a dreamlike origin tale of sorts that jumps across time and kitchens as it retraces years of Carmy’s training. It’s not a perfectly clean bundle of character journeys: Tina’s arc, such as it is, amounts to shaving time off her cook, which feels underwhelming, and Sweeps, whose oenological education we continue to follow throughout the season, doesn’t really arrive at any meaningful payoff. That message lands most directly through the show’s embrace of the kitchen as a found family; after all, Tiff’s wedding episode ends with Richie smiling at a photo of the whole crew labeled “THE BEARS.” It’s corny, sure, but I agree with my colleague Kathryn VanArendonk about its taste.
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