The first season of “The Bear” opens with an invitation to chaos, before tossing you into the anarchic party itself.
Carm (Jeremy Allen White) is asleep, dreaming that he’s on a bridge in the Chicago loop, where he opens a bear cage to release, what else, a live, snarling, somewhat perturbed brown bear.
When he wakes up, it’s time to cook.
The restaurant he inherited from his late brother Michael (Jon Bernthal) beckons, and Carm has to serve up the signature beef while putting out figurative and literal fires left and right.
It’s chaos compounded with chaos, or to use a cooking metaphor: He’s out of the frying pan and into the fire.“The Bear” Season 2 opens in silence.
Well, near silence.
Rather than the clicking of a gas stove flickering to life, there’s the methodical beep of a heart monitor.
Marcus (Lionel Boyce) is looking over his mother,…
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