SugarĮarly reports and reviews out of Season 2 all hinted that we might be seeing a lot more of Abby Elliott’s Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto as she ramps up her involvement as reluctant co-owner of the restaurant. No longer the new girl with a little notebook, she may now finally become the Chef De Cuisine with a big voice. Forced into a leadership role, we may find the best, most purposeful version of Sydney. Combined with the failed catering business that forced her back into her parents’ house, Sydney has always failed the leadership test.īut she now is responsible for getting the crew together that will make the restaurant hum. Even when Carmy turned over the chef role to her last season, she had his experience and expertise always following her and questioning her.
Until now, Sydney has always been the Robin to someone else’s Batman in her culinary journey. In a few short days, we are seeing a new, more confident version of Sydney who isn’t afraid to stand up to Richie, Uncle Jimmy, Sugar, and anyone else who stands in her way of creating a “destination” restaurant that will be better than all those other places you can throw a rock and hit from their location.
#Devour up troubles lyrics full#
In the final scene of the episode, Sydney also goes full “ No Sleep ‘Til, No Sleep ‘Til Bear” on Carmy and Sugar. With that in mind, I think we fully see the Bear unleashed and uncaged this season as he (maybe tumultuously) leads this group to success. Vision-casting on a white board in his apartment won’t get a restaurant built, and certainly won’t make it profitable.Ĭarmy is motivated, hungry, and has cash to back his dream courtesy of a new deal with Uncle Jimmy. And he can’t have a restaurant until he starts busting his ass every single day to open it. And he can’t cook until he has a restaurant. He may have admitted to Richie that none of it is “fun” for him, but Richie calls his bluff and tells him they all know he loves every second of it.Īll it takes is one short glimpse of his French Laundry chef jacket with the “CB” emblazoned on it for Carmy grab that marshmallow and devour it. He’s like the kid in the Stanford marshmallow experiment who is told he can’t cook for months. But after days and maybe weeks of planning, demo, and planning budgets on the back of pizza boxes, Carmy doesn’t know what to do with himself when he heads home early one evening. Maybe it’s no accident that “Carmy” just fits right in with “confident,” “cocky,” “crazy,” “chaotic,” and all the other words he, Sydney and Sugar use to describe the ambition to try and open a new restaurant in three months, much less six. What is it, and more importantly, do they follow it? Carmen
Each person in this story has some kind of purpose. It’s a bittersweet conversation the two have in the backdrop of last season and Michael’s still stinging death, but it also sets the stage for what we will find in this second season of The Bear. He’s terrorized by a story he read about long-time friends who eventually distance themselves from the one who couldn’t ever find his purpose in life. Eventually, Carmy finds Richie in the basement, staring at old family photos and contemplating what may be next for the loud-mouthed “cousin.” He asks Carmy about purpose, and Richie is scared one morning he is going to wake up and everyone else at the restaurant will have realized Richie has no skill, no ingenuity, and no purpose. In the opening minutes when Carmy is brainstorming with his team about the new restaurant, he can’t find Richie.
Similar to Season 1, the premiere episode of Season 2, “Beef,” may have just signaled what the rest of the season will ultimately be about. Season 1 showed us from the very beginning that this season would be about the showdown with that family name and Carmy’s attempt both rescue and assimilate back into it. The stress, the addiction, the financial trouble, the restaurant, all were a part of the family that was ready to attack Carmy when he came back from New York. Carmy staring down that bear, as we wait to see who wins, symbolized Carmy finally having to come face-to-face with his family after years apart. Carmy, his sister Sugar (Natalie), and Michael-the brother they lost to suicide-all used the nickname at one point. “Bear” was a familial, colloquial name for just about everyone in the Berzatto family or extended family. Why that bear kept popping up throughout Season 1 of the FX on Hulu breakout show last summer remains a mystery, but my chips are all in on one theory. In the opening minutes of the pilot episode in Season 1 of The Bear, we see Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto staring down an actual grizzly bear that has been freed from its cage. The following recap contains spoilers for The Bear S2E1, “Beef” (written and directed by Christopher Storer)
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