The Bear 4 will be repetitive. But it is also intense, more mature and incredibly moving

Everyone wrote it a little: The Bear – and in particular The Bear 4 – has become repetitive. Always the same dish, an insipid meal that does not satisfy, and as many comparisons and similarities with the kitchen can come to mind. And that’s how it is true, The fourth season of The Bear it is repetitive. Or, at least, so it is at a first impression. Certainly his first episode is. With the concept at the base that everything is boiling, that the pressure of the kitchen affects the rhythm and stress of the life of its chefs and room directors, the episode is nothing more except the return of a setting and a necessary emotion with which to re-accommodate the spectators, reminding them of what it isof what is the mood that you breathe in the stove of the show and why that sense of anxiety and torment affects in the everyday, very messed up of the characters.

But, after that introductory beginning, although arrived at his third year after his debut in 2022, the season changes as his protagonist. A paradigm inversion that is what the return of the Christopher Storer series is destricsed and which will lead to the development and evolution of the young chef Carmen Berzatto by Jeremy Allen White and his trying to take a step forward compared to the chaos in which he had voluntarily bogged down. To try to get out of an area of ​​confusion and impasse due by the death of his brother Mickey, but who has roots sunk much earlier, in family relationships, In the wall with the mother and in the difficulty for the man to relate to anyone next to him, from a friend and connects like Sydney to the cousin Richie until the love he probably needs, the overwhelming and caring one of Claire.

The Bear 4not a season like the others

And so, it turns out that The Bear 4 It is not the same at the other seasons. Indeed, it’s a change of course, puts a new gear. It is even mirroring the crash that we have seen in the second and third season and which risked marking a point of no return. It is a more introspective, but not silent, quiet. On the contrary, Carrmy tries to speak, to confront those around, no longer to escape. It is a more placid season that does not hide the tension under the carpet, but really seeking the way of diluting the spirits. Not to go out, but to find a minimum of serenity that is inner so as to make sure that it is also reflected outside, in your workin the manner of dealing with others.

It certainly does not mean that the screams will miss, but they will be more controlled, less furious and atavistic. You will look for the right words, not the cries to be launched in the wind. And to guide the team, but above all the series in this transformation is the chef Carmen himself, also paradoxically by his own part To leave space, voice and talent to those around. The fourth of The Bear. Of the knots that come to the comb, but that do not require compensation for all the pain experienced, but only a cure to feel a little less frastornly, sad, alone. It is the season of growth, awareness, suffering of loss and regrets that have now broken out and, In order not to poison yourself furtherthey can do nothing but subside, find a place to sit and put the conditioner on the wounds.

A family lunch

That’s why The Bear 4 It almost comes like a caress. Full of a nostalgia that does not explain, of a torment that you know that there will always be, but that the protagonist and his tribe have learned to keep at bay. To give him a name instead of pretending does not exist, to face it so as not to exacerbate any soul. It is no coincidence that during the season there is an episode that is perfectly speculating to Fish Of the second, the episode on the Christmas holidays in Carmic’s house, the moment of maximum explosion for the family and the series itself. It is the seventh episode on TIFF’s wedding, with a simple yet explanatory title Bearsin which that jagged, angular, incredibly full of affection family meets, meets, meets under a table in which there are not only those who bring Berzatto as a surname, but also all the others who, for one reason or another, have ended up part of the clan of cooks and screamers of Italian origin, voluntarily choosing to be part of it. Also sharing, in addition, what they are afraid of.

And, precisely because growth does not always be to be skidded, it is normal that The Bear continues discreetly, without scripted, following already consolidated patterns, but dismantling them also slowly. As with the progress of Carmen, who in the fourth season has learned to smile, and will do it more than once. With the awareness of Sydney, the talented Ayo Edibiri, who will know which part to be on. It is the return of all those who have eaten or cooked or even just given a peek in The Bear (or The Beef) cuisine. It’s like going home. In a noisy, complex, loving, ramshackle and bright house. And maybe, from there, start again.