If I read MiscelAnas, I know I might give the impression that I have restrictions on the absurd success of the series The Bear, whose third season arrived in Brazil a month late and which can now only be seen on the unified Disney Plus platform. That is not true. I LOVE The Bear and if I were a Michelin critic like I am for TV and Cinema, I would give it 10 stars without even having a single real bite. The popular series over the last two years is an (almost) perfect recipe for a study on mental health as well as gastronomy. A full plate for fans of intelligent and thought-provoking content to delight in. It’s just not comedy, drama, or any other reference. It’s one of the most accurate dramas on TV in recent years.

Breaking records in a year of less competition and in the wrong category, The Bear has been navigating the fragile and complex mental health of chef Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), a talented cook who left Chicago and conquered the world, having achieved a star of Michelin in New York, but being forced to return home (in the 1st season) after his older brother’s suicide. Carmy, full of problems and anxiety himself, has to deal with the pain of loss and inherit the poorly managed and confusing diner business that his brother left behind.

In this first stage, what becomes obvious is that the engine of all the Berzatto family’s personal and professional relationships is toxic but still irresistible. So says Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri), Carmy’s fan and current cooking partner.

The second season showed an intense, but at least passionate, Carmy, committed to transforming the family diner into a luxury restaurant. It was a less focused season, featuring fictional and real chefs in a parade of dishes and drinks that made it impossible to watch without getting hungry. We follow the lives and transformations of the team and people around Carmy, as well as encountering the maternal and desperate hurricane that is Donna (Jamie Lee Curtis). And yes, on the most important night for the restaurant, Carmy is trapped in the freezer, dealing with his inner demons and destroying the only positive thing in his life.

It is immediately after this turbulent farewell that we find Carmy more neurotic than ever, obsessed with getting his second star in record time, now hallucinating and alienating everyone around him.

The third season makes clear some basic recipes of The Bear: dialogues run over in Robert Altman‘s school, a spectacular soundtrack, but the use of uninterrupted music in every scene. These ingredients are used without moderation, in a pot of non-linear narrative that gradually makes sense and ends in a perfect dish: in appearance and taste.

That said, it has also given more space to other characters whose trajectory we didn’t know about, such as the beautiful story of Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas), in one of the best episodes of the season, directed by none other than Ayo Edbiri. However, even though they are fun, the brothers Neil (Matty Matheson) and Theo Fak (Ricky Staffieri), with the lead of John Cena as Sammy, gained a voice as if to justify the fact that this melodrama has been classified as a comedy, without to be. It was forced.

Telling in detail what each person’s journey is like is spoiling the surprise, in The Bear each scene needs to be a surprise to be appreciated. I will talk more in detail later, to avoid spoilers. We end up, as always, with a knot in our stomach, with the knife in our neck, and anxious to know how the knots will be untied. I have my theories. For now, I recommend immediate consumption of The Bear!

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