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The Bear Is Trapped
Carmy can’t move ahead when he’s haunted by his past, and neither can season three.
Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) is inspired by his time at a local Michelin-starred institution, but he can’t get The Bear’s mood quite right, and his attempt to view it as a meditative philosophical endeavor keeps running up against Carmy’s quest for back-of-house superstardom. The role of McHale’s character — his impact on Carmy, the amount of damage he’s done — was made amply clear in the past seasons with a level of narrative restraint that expressed exactly how awful this guy was without rubbing it in too hard. For every overlong scene with the now-tiresome Fak brothers, there’s a lovely sequence where Oliver Platt’s Uncle Jimmy sits and just talks to Carmy or Syd, and the point of this whole endeavor comes back into focus for a moment.
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