- Starring
- Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, Liza Colón-Zayas
- Creator
- Christopher Storer
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama
- Release date
- June 23, 2022
- Where to watch
The Bear is a comedy-drama TV series created by Christopher Storer for FX on Hulu. The show follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (played by Jeremy Allen White), an award-winning chef who returns to his hometown of Chicago to manage the chaotic kitchen at his deceased brother’s sandwich shop, “The Beef.” In season 3, which was released on June 26, 2024, Carmy deals with unresolved debts, a rundown kitchen, and an unruly staff while coping with his own pain and family trauma.
Michael Carrick
Michael Carrick is a cinephile and professional clinician with a master’s degree in psychology, so he is trained to spot pathology in all its iterations. Michael has sought to help people heal and uncover the deeper themes, meanings, and purposes in their stories to aid them in living a better life. He now aims to help heal the film industry by shrinking it as well, and hopefully squeeze out the pathology. He relies upon his passion for film and psychological foundation, which includes strong philosophical and theological fundamentals to analyze film, highlight the artistic value and offer a diagnosis.
6 comments
Bushblocker
August 30, 2024 at 10:44 am
I liked the first two seasons but gave up after the fourth episode of the third season. There is no story or plot. The first episode is just people making food, not even food that makes you wish you were at the restaurant. The food being served is the worst possible type, tiny quantities of overpriced elitist crap. If you are going to make the main thrust of the episodes the preparation and presentation, then at least make food that makes me wish I was dining at the restaurant. They had four episodes to move the story forward but did nothing. So, of course, the critics love it. So stupid.
unrealgecko
September 7, 2024 at 5:19 pm
This season fell off hard. Watch season 1 and 2 and forget season 3. Hopefully, 4 will be better!
John Dough
September 16, 2024 at 2:53 am
I gave up on that garbage as soon as dude got involved with a black girl. woke garbage.
Michael D.
January 12, 2025 at 10:50 pm
Depicting an interracial relationship in 21st century America automatically makes something woke?
Sweet Deals
January 13, 2025 at 12:14 am
Intent matters.
Interracial relationships aren’t novel or rare because human beings have been moving around and marrying whomever they find wherever they go. But while interracial relationships have been around since forever, it wasn’t until about 2010 when it suddenly became a status symbol to be married to someone with a different skin color. Nobody cares if your mother is Scottish and your father is Estonian because both are white. Nobody cares if your mother is Chinese and your father is white. But if at least one of the two members in the couple is “brown”, then you’re “biracial”, and therefore more socially special than an ordinary white person.
This goes especially if mutual chemistry or family history is not a factor in why a white person and a brown person happen to be married. Who needs family cohesion or passing down traditions when skin color and national origin are the only traits that provide social relevance? In a woke world, a family is just a bunch of random people who get shoved together through convenience, and things like culture don’t matter. This is also why when I see commercials with inexplicably mixed-race marriages, the actors in them can’t even pretend that they like each other because they’ve been forced together strictly for the sake of optics. (Yet another example of Boring Brown Person).
Michael D.
January 13, 2025 at 11:02 am
I can definitely agree that interracial relationships are a bit over-represented in modern Hollywood to the point of them feeling a bit forced or unnatural in certain media. And when those relationships do occur on screen, they’re typically between a “dark” and “fair” skinned individual. That being said, this in and of itself does not automatically make something “woke”. Intent does matter, certainly, but that takes looking at the rest of the media in its entirety to determine if its woke as whole through multiple elements or even a single egregious one.
I’d argue two thing about your point. 1) I think you’re misrepresenting the social prestige of being bi-racial or in a black/white interracial relationship. 2) While family traditions and culture do matter, I think you’re exaggerating the natural/cultural degree of separation between a Black/Brown person/family and a White person/family.
To the first point, while I think Hollywood certainly has a bit of a fetishization with biracial or ethnically-ambiguous people, it’s important to remember that that’s very much a Hollywood mindset. In the real-world, there’s far more of a range of opinions (especially in America) on that idea. There are of course people who still fetishize it, but there are plenty of folks who genuinely don’t care (in the sense that they’re not mentally or emotionally invested in the status of someone who’s biracial) and plenty more who still frown upon interracial relationships and/or biracial kids. Our lives, in general, are not as racially diverse as some people would have you think; not every place is New York, LA, Chicago, or another big metropolitan area. There are plenty of people (probably the majority?) who live in relatively homogeneous American communities (something that’s neither entirely good nor bad). And there are plenty of places where you’ll get strange looks if you’re seen romantically with someone of another race. So while I agree that two White folks of different backgrounds don’t turn heads (because they’re both White, that’s the norm, and no one can really gleam ethnicity from just looking), a mixed couple will be met with a range of looks and feelings, from odd joy to indifference to disdain.
To the second point, culture and traditions can be very important to many families and factor into marriages, I won’t dispute that; however, I don’t believe those cultural differences are as drastically incompatible as you’re making them seem (in America, at least), and it’s important to separate marriage from two people simply dating or who like each other. Most people tend to date and marry those who have some shared aspect about themselves. This of course starts with proximity, but more specifically can include things like work, school, a social or religious circle, etc. Marriage tends to happen between people who are in an immediate bubble of their lives. You seem to be taking a more extreme example in which let’s say an upperclass White American family combines with a freshly immigrated family from the Middle East with a completely different religion and cultural norms.
A quote that’s thrown around a bit and has some relative truth is “A poor White person is going to have more in common with a poor Black person than a rich White person”. Again, there’s of course some relativity to this, but gist is there. Any two families are of course going to have traditions that are unique to them, and this is true of families of different races. That being said, I doubt that a middle-class White family and a middle-class Black both from Pittsburgh are going to have such diametrically opposed cultures that the union will just implode or not be cohesive. And do you apply the same logic to White families? I know not all White families share the same traditions and values, so is that also an issue?
Also, your point about the commercials seems a bit of a stretch. A commercial is typically no longer than 30-60 seconds, and in that time we’re generally not given deep background information on the characters or their family histories. So other than the actors being different races, what exactly makes a mixed-race commercial couple “inexplicable”? If it’s the chemistry or lack thereof, do you apply that same logic to same-race commercial couples? I’ve seen plenty of bad acting in commercials between couples that were both White, both Black, both Latino, etc.
Again, and to close, I agree that interracial couples can be inflated a bit much in Hollywood, and there’s no denying the DEI agenda that many media companies push or try to push (some more explicitly than others). But just because there’s an on-screen interracial couple being shown post-2010, that doesn’t automatically make that project “woke garbage” (at least in my eyes). Like you said, intent is important, and I don’t think that simply seeing an interracial couple or romance in a show in the 2020’s is enough to condemn it as woke. As you said, interracial dating has been around for a while, so there needs to be more than that. If other elements of the show/film/project are pushing far-leftist notions, then yes, it can certainly tick the “woke” box. But context matters.