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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Barbara Ellen

The week in TV: The Bear; The Walk-In; Paxman: Putting Up With Parkinson’s; Jungle

Jeremy Allen White , Lionel Boyce and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in The Bear.
‘A triumph of straightforward storytelling’: Jeremy Allen White, Lionel Boyce and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in The Bear. FX Networks Photograph: FX Networks

The Bear Disney+
The Walk-In ITV | ITV Hub
Paxman: Putting Up With Parkinson’s ITV | ITV Hub
Jungle Prime Video

As I started watching The Bear, the much-lauded Disney+ dramedy about people working in a struggling restaurant in Chicago, I wondered whether the hype (and the streaming fee) was going to be justified. It looked OK: Jeremy Allen White (from the American Shameless) plays Carmy, a fine dining chef whose brother, Michael (Jon Bernthal), killed himself, leaving Carmy a rundown Italian-American joint, the Original Beef of Chicagoland. Still, I mused, after all the fuss made about it in the US, where it aired on Hulu, The Bear needed to be nothing short of brilliant.

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