This article discusses, in depth, the events of The bearFinal of season 4.
You should feel for Sydney Adamu. Played by Ayo Edebiri, whose discreet performance is a highlight of The bearThe fourth season, Syd has spent months dying if it is necessary to leave the bear – the restaurant of its dreams and also a chaotic nightmare – for a more stable and less stressful work in the kitchen of another chef. In the midst of this deliberation, his father is hospitalized for a heart attack. And just when she finally decided to sign her partnership agreement and stay at the bear, Syd is struck by another bomb: Carmy has updated the contract to list only uncle Jimmy, Sugar and Syd as a co -owners. In other words, he plans to leave the restaurant.
The details of this choice, which is certainly shocking but perhaps not so surprising given the many clues that we have obtained that Carmy has lost his passion for work which was in the past all his life, is chopped in a final which is among the best episodes of an otherwise stagnant season. Located entirely in the alley outside of the bear, it consists of a long-awaited confrontation between Carmy and Syd, Richie joining the scrum in half. Although he promises to stay until the restaurant is out of financial problems, it seems that Carmy intends to leave. If The bear The creator of Christopher Storers actually goes with this upheaval, it could be exactly what the show needs to get out of the rut in which he has been for two seasons.
The finish opens onto a close -up of Syd, the head pressed towards the fence in front of the kitchen door in a total exhaustion gesture. Carmy appears in the door: “You did not tell me about any service.” The reason for her coldness is, of course, that she had to discover her plan to get out of the bear by a lawyer (who also happens to be the husband of Sugar and the brother-in-law of Carmy). “It’s the best thing for the restaurant,” he said, after having denied that “stopping” is what he does. “We have to put the restaurant first.” Syd sees this for non-explanation. From his point of view, he abandoned a fragile company whose money problems he caused (looking for ingredients for a new menu every day is expensive); He believes he has chosen the right time to go out, now that an appropriate team is in place. Then Carmy explains why he feels that he must leave: “I did so I did not have to do other things.” That is to say that he threw himself into cooking because he could not face the burden of being a person with life and relationships outside of work. Syd, who does not smoke, needs a cigarette.
She has a betrayal to admit it. We have known since the name of Adam Shapiro illuminated Carmy’s phone whom he knows that she almost jumped the ship. Now he calls her on it, and she apologizes – on time: “I’m sorry not to have told you, but you were a F -K maniac.” Extremely fair! In the most cathartic moment of the season, she finally unloads on Carmy after having silently absorbed much of her destructive behavior: “I am sorry, even if F -king had on this subject. And I’m sorry for everything you have experienced … I’m really sorry that your family had to cross this SH-T, and the fact that you and Nat and Richie lead you to work every day and the people who work with you and the SH-T … But when you manage for the restaurant and the people who work with this path and the Sho Business F -ck and on me, it’s beyond F -king … “
It is a glorious monologue, in part because things that frustrate Syd about Carmy – his self -absorption, his misery, his tendency to suck all oxygen in the kitchen – are also things that have made the show on his frustrating character for viewers. Follow Carmen Berzatto through the stages of sorrow on the suicide of his brother Mikey, as we have now been doing for four seasons now, it is to feel stuck in a marsh, repeating the same limited movements in a futile attempt to generate momentum before. A much more dynamic protagonist would be SYD. Carmy says so much. “You are all that I will never be,” he said. “You are attentive. You allow yourself to feel things, right? You allow yourself to worry. You are a natural leader and teacher. And you do all this for each reason F -ck Right … Any chance of good in this building – it started when you entered, and any possibility of surviving is with you … You are the bear. ” She doesn’t seem ready to hear this yet. To my ears, however, it sounds exactly. Carmy can be brilliant, but she is the hero, the chef capable of magnitude.
It was at this moment that Richie entered and that Syd gives him the news of Carmy’s departure. (“I retire,” insists on a man who will not be eligible to collect Social Security for at least three decades.) “I put the restaurant first,” explains Carmy. Richie does not hear it either. “Just as you put your family first,” is his response to cut. When Richie cursed, Carmy finally admits that he did Introduce yourself to the funeral of Mikey and left without speaking to anyone. It is then that Syd tries to withdraw from this personal conversation, and they urge him to stay; The involvement is that it is now as part of the extended clan of Berzatto as “cousin” Richie. She is there to hear Carmy to give Richie excuses very late: “I did not know how you lost someone too.”
Carmy’s self -awareness of self -conscience is a wealthy offensive. They share their regrets about Mikey. And the two men admit that they felt each other. Carmy envisages the connection that Richie has with his family; Richie hates that he will never be a real parent of blood and remembers fantasizing to have a call like Carmy. (“I bought a f -ck kitchen book. Carmy tries to explain:” I don’t know what I am … Apart from cooking. “He is, after all, a man so emotionally slowed down, he ignores his potential, Claire, for months, then presents himself at his door on an end of evening whim.
Syd has silently observed most of this provisional reconciliation, but now she speaks with an idea of how the bear could take place in the absence of Carmy. She also wants to make Richie a partner. It looks good. He put as much equity in sweat in the restaurant as anyone – and, looking at him charming guests and obsessively hunting the right quote to inspire his front -end team, he is sure to say that he found his own call for hospital. Richie tries De demolie at the beginning, but soon kisses with good heart: “F -k yes, chef Sydney, it is an F -K honor. I love this for Richie, who worked hard to turn away from the depths of divorce, sorrow and self-discomfort, and to become the kind of guy who can sincerely wish that her ex and her new husband.
Sugar’s arrival in the last minutes of the episode seals the agreement, just before the end of the season on the image of the two -month timer by Uncle Jimmy to zero. There are still a lot of challenges to come for the bear, which has avoided a disaster but has not yet reached sustainability – and for The bearWho had trouble building a plot around this season’s race to stop the hemorrhage. What is promising, however, is of apparent awareness of storing that with Carmy in its center, the show is condemned to continue to turn its wheels.
This does not necessarily mean stealing the “yes, chef!” Quotent of their short brood king, Jeremy Allen White, who has done commendable work with an increasingly irritating character. But it is difficult to imagine the prospering spectacle again without a change of massive atmosphere. While Carmy deletes his presence at the restaurant, I hope Syd will claim not only the menu, but also the spotlights. With the participation of the property of Richie – and, the crossed fingers, a renovation of season 5 of cooking staff stories like Marcus and Tina – his ascent would prove something The bear tried to say, with various degrees of success, throughout: a large restaurant is not the creation of a superstar chef who terrorizes his employees in submission. It can only be the result of a talented team working in harmony.
