Production Series Reveals Secrets of US Food Service (VIDEO)

The third season of the already legendary series “The Bear,” which tells the story of the Berzatto family trying to conquer the US restaurant industry, has been released on Disney+ and Hulu.

It seems like Carmen Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), Sugar (Abby Elliott), and Uncle Jimmy (Oliver Platt) are finally ready to open Bear in Chicago, aiming to win a coveted Michelin star and show what modern fine dining should be. But the key word in that phrase is “seem.” In reality, no one in the Bear kitchen is prepared for the big opening and the stress that comes with it.

The leitmotif of the second season of The Bear was Richie’s question: “Why are we even opening a restaurant?” The main phrase of the new episodes is: “Are you okay?” All the characters constantly try to find out from each other how they really feel, but are not ready to answer honestly or listen to what a colleague in the shop says. The Berzatto family members never learned to communicate to overcome their problems, so their personal and professional relationships are falling apart, which affects the work of the restaurant.

The Bear series has never been verbose, but in the third season it turns into a dramatic ballet, in which actions often replace dialogues. The lines have no meaning. In the first episodes, the viewer still tries to find meaning in the characters’ conversations, but then realizes that no one knows what to say or what to answer, so they just do what they think is right, hoping for the best.

In the new episodes, the creators of Bear make it clear that all the characters have something in common – each of them has faced death and loss of a loved one. The Berzatto family is still reeling from the death of Michael (Jon Bernthal), Marcus (Lionel Boyce) has just lost his mother, Sydney has also lost one of her parents, and Carmi and Richie are also going through a difficult breakup. They are all infinitely lonely, lost and traumatized, and work becomes their main form of escapism. They are looking for love in the restaurant. They believe that they can at least do something right in this life – turn Bear into the main gastronomic event in the United States, so that they can exhale and realize that they have coped with at least one task in life.

The third season, like the first two, is imbued with love for food – no other feature series or film shows gastronomy as passionately and juicily as “Bear”. In the ingredients, cooking processes and serving dishes, the viewer, like the characters of the series, finds peace and pleasure. While the storylines related to family, relationships and personal transformations are in complete chaos and lawlessness, in the Bear kitchen there is an exemplary German Ordnung, that is, order. Note that the director constantly focuses on the clock that hangs above the serving table to show how important every minute is in the restaurant’s work. All employees must be as focused and concentrated as possible so that the kitchen works clearly and without errors. But even endless love for your business will not help you maintain the pace of the restaurant business if your head is an absolute mess.

While watching the third season, many associations arise with what a restaurant is for the characters. Is it a home where they look for love and support? Is it a career that allows them to realize their hidden ambitions and goals? Is it a blank canvas that requires a flight of fantasy and endless creativity? And while the viewer is looking for their answer, the creators of “The Bear” suggest perceiving gastronomy as magic. Chefs are tricksters who can turn trousers into shorts with a slight movement of their hand so that the restaurant Alex Reed will not even understand at what point they were fooled. But behind each such trick there are years, months, weeks, hours of painstaking, exhausting work that requires full dedication.

The new season of Bear details the personal events that have had a profound impact on all the main characters of the series and why working in the kitchen has become a form of escapism for each of them. Carmi, Richie, Marcus, Sydney, Sugar, Tina (Lisa Colon-Zayas), when they come to work, try to devote themselves entirely to gastronomy in order to turn off all their worries and feelings. Nothing matters in the world except food. If Bear gets positive reviews from critics and wins a Michelin star, the mission will be accomplished. You can breathe a sigh of relief. But personal traumas, dilemmas and experiences continue to burst into the kitchen, no matter how hard the characters try to pretend that they are okay. Their life problems become a poison that penetrates the restaurant through the ventilation shafts and gradually poisons Bear’s slender body.