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Let’s Talk About The Bear’s ‘To Be Continued …’ Ending
Was the review good or bad or what??
We see flashes of various adjectives — confusing, excellent, innovative, sloppy, delicious, inconsistent — but because Carmy has been living so deeply inside his own head all season, anxiety-spiraling through mental images of what reviews of The Bear might say, it’s not 100 percent clear whether these are also figments of his imagination or reflections of what the piece actually says. Both the first, which concludes with the discovery of all the tomato can money and the decision to rebrand the restaurant, and the second, which builds toward the season finale’s semi-disastrous soft opening of The Bear, created a sense of narrative momentum that led to definitive finishes. Every choice he makes in season three — from writing up that absurd list of non-negotiables to constantly undermining Sydney by dictating what’s on the daily menu — stems from Carmy’s desire to be a version of himself that would finally impress that snobby, nasty chef.
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