To do a restaurant show right, you have to actually feel that intensity - to know that there are unspoken rules and roles and that the very best chefs are not just very talented but also very driven. TV shows set in restaurants tend to try and cast hot, young people, all too clean, too quirky. Restaurant lifers can be weirdos. The people who deliver meat or work flattop grills all day just because they love it are capital-c Characters, but you have to learn to love them.
Straight out of the gate with episode one, it's clear that The Bear gets all of that. Set in a worn-down Chicago beef restaurant cleverly named The Original Beef Of Chicagoland, The Bear tells the story of a greasy-haired superstar chef, Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto (White), who's come home to take over the family business after his older brother passed away.
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