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Is The Bear a Comedy? And Should I Care?
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It stars Jeremy Allen White as Carmy, a fancy Michelin-level chef who inherits his dead brother’s Chicago sandwich joint, The Beef, and quickly discovers that it’s being held together with a few gobs of solidified grease and a prayer. But many of the show’s side characters can swerve into space that’s lighter or more fun, especially his family friend Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and the Fak brothers, Shakespearean fool types who hang around and make trouble while trying to fix things. The argument for it as a comedy is for what Vulture writer Jesse David Fox calls a “post-comedy.” It may not be dense with laugh-out-loud jokes, or even funny-awkward situations that eventually lead to hilarity, but it’s a show that’s still operating in a playful state.
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