After years of heated discourse as to whether The Bear is actually the comedy it’s classified as at awards season (for the record: it’s not), the final season of the kitchen drama is now taking a leap into another genre: thriller.
At the end of the previous series, Carmen Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), The Bear’s own tortured Gordon Ramsay, decided for his own mental health — and of everyone around him — it would be better if he handed over control of the restaurant to sous chef Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), cousin Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and his sister Natalie (Abby Elliott). Which is all very noble, but as the opening episodes of the new series show, he cannot fully bring himself to walk away — and he’s becoming a backseat chef to Syd.
