The final season of the hit chef show is the most entertaining and purely enjoyable since the first \u2013 plus everyone ended up getting what they wanted! What an incredible rollercoaster<\/p>\n
No show has ever needed to end like The Bear. The series initially made its name as a vehicle of pure forward momentum, the story of a burned-out high-end chef drafted in to fix up and save his dead brother\u2019s sandwich restaurant. Through eight breathless episodes we saw Carmy get repeatedly pummelled by the stresses of the job \u2013 fights, demands, an accidental stabbing \u2013 as he sought to rebuild it in his own image.<\/p>\n
With the benefit of hindsight, this probably should have been the entire show. Because The Bear was in such an almighty clatter to get where it wanted to go that, when it got there, it didn\u2019t have the first clue how to proceed. Seasons three and four both stalled badly, in a morass of montages and flashback episodes that felt like placeholders. The drop-off was tangible.<\/p>\n
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