The second season of The Bear is proudly maximalist television. There are episodes set in different countries, episodes that drop the narrative altogether to show the spiritual awakening of specific characters. One episode seems to have been exclusively designed to let Jamie Lee Curtis break the world record for rampant scenery chewing. Then there’s the sound. When The Bear starts playing a song, more often than not it plays the song all the way through, adding to the cacophony of the scene.
So it comes as a bit of a surprise to find that the scene that has captured public attention like nothing else is perhaps its smallest. There are no fights. No raised voices. No breathless montages. No music. Just a woman, a couple of eggs and a bag of crisps. Which is to say that, when people come to think of The Bear season two in years to come, they’re going to think of the omelette.
