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The Bear Recap: Meet Sammy Fak
Some celebrity cameos work, some don’t.
I get that it seems like a fun idea to have one of the nine Faks be this huge, muscular guy who looks different from Neil and Ted, but the execution of it, with the hauntings and the smoking and the SD cards and the time spent leaning up against the bar in the kitchen with the rest of the gang is just weird. It’s cute that they’re friends and that we hear weird details about their lives, like how Ted put Neil in a box when he was 6 years old and that made him claustrophobic ever since, but it’s just not moving the show along. Syd rightly tells him that he’s there now, which is all that matters, especially considering the storm that seems to be brewing with Natalie’s impending delivery, the shuttering of Chef Terry’s spot, and whatever’s coming out in that Tribune review.
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