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The Bear Season-Premiere Recap: The Clock Is Ticking


The season is just getting started, but it looks like the end may already be in sight for the gang.

If throughout last season it seemed like everyone was tiptoeing around Carmy’s mania in hopes of earning success and acclaim for The Bear, the review proves that what they were feeling in the back of house was translated to the dining experience. We’ve heard some version of Carmy’s spiel about the importance of restaurants a number of times over the run of The Bear, including in the season-three finale from a cavalcade of big-name guest-star chefs. While hiring the erstwhile crew from Andrea Terry’s recently shuttered shop seems to be a good step toward righting the ship, the show appears to be setting up the question of “Is it too little too late?” Will Chuckie the delivery robot be enough, or was the Original Beef gang always doomed because they were starting from some metaphorical level below other successful restaurants?

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