Jeremy Allen White's Carmy can live in denial all he wants but fans have to accept the reality of the situation – stat!
THE BEAR Season 3 Ending Explained
What makes Jeremy Allen White's The Bear such a haunting watch even though the high-stakes, neurotic episodes feel like a horse high on Blue Magic stomping inside your head? The regression in quality television combined with the abandoned formal projects has numbed our senses to the point where The Bears screaming matches may be the only thing that can drag us out of death-for-boredom.
But it's pointless to deny that the FX series isn't without its flaws, and that the collective pop culture awakening in the aftermath of Jeremy Allen White's Calvin Klein ad had nothing to do with the sudden influx of food-obsessed viewers who have fallen for it. deep down the rabbit hole to climb back out.
Audiences who entered The Bear with no foresight or idea of what to expect are now traumatized by their shared experience of the 2-season arc that took us on a wild ride of laughter, mayhem, death and dysfunction. Each storyline with its transgressions and manic breakdowns served a purpose in the show's larger arc but Season 3 failed to recreate that magic again.