The Bear sound team Scott D. Smith, Evan Benjamin and Steve “Major” Giammaria talk about crafting the sonic atmosphere of a stressful kitchen ...

Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), a young fine-dining chef, returns to Chicago to run his family’s sandwich shop after his ...

The show got a lot of attention for its restaurant industry commentary. But what it’s actually doing is telling us to get off ...

Carmy Is "Retiring" After Season 4 Shortly after turning The Beef around, opening The Bear, and finally getting the numbers back on track to stay open, Jeremy Allen White’s Carmy decided he’s ...

As Carmy aims to turn The Bear into a Michelin-star restaurant, the tight ship he attempts to run transforms the kitchen into a place of chaos and tension — perhaps, even more than the first ...

If Carmy eventually understands that he has nothing to prove, he will see how he does not have to run a fine-dining Michelin-approved restaurant to show his culinary skills.

Since Carmy doesn’t know who’s getting that plate, his going rogue could be a matter of self-satisfaction and nothing more. Sydney may know who Carmy is by then, so for her the plate is an ...

Sydney and Carmy’s relationship just happens to be the one at the center. Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri in Season 2 of "The Bear." (Chuck Hodes / ©FX on Hulu / Courtesy Everett Collection) ...

Carmy has become such an alienating force in the world of the show that no one is really fighting him or fighting for him. Save for one moment, Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) mostly moves around him.

It’s a losing battle every day in the restaurant business, and as Carmy pushes himself harder than ever and demands excellence from his crew, they do their best to match his intensity.

In Season 1, we saw Carmy mentoring Sydney (or at least trying to) while they ran The Beef. In Season 2, we saw them work as collaborators, creating the menu for The Bear and running the new kitchen.

Carmy does little more than painstakingly assemble dishes only to throw them in the garbage. Viewers could be forgiven for wanting to do the same with the series after this season's 10 episodes.