Let’s UnpackThe Bear’s Emotional Baggage

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As a series,The Bearis deeply invested in the idea of growth through change.

Or would all the emotional baggage between these characters be too much to overcome?

Maybe youve forgotten all the details of these characters overlapping personal and professional bonds and complications.

.Carmy and Richies fraught cousinhood

Mikey was a complicated guy, and the tragedy of his death looms over everyone he knew.

Its a nice life-imitating-art touch that in season three, Edebiri directs the Tina-focused episode Napkins.

They shouldnt date.

Its really that simple.

Heres Carmys need to succeed ruining his personal life again.

I dont need to receive any amusement or enjoyment.

Im completely fine with that.

Because no amount of good is worth how terrible this feels.

Its just a complete waste of fuckin time.

This man lovesBlade Runner, Michael Mann, Haruki Murakami, and Ridley Scott.

(And Taylor Swift, unexpectedly yet canonically.)

Not literally, we know this man is a front-of-house savant.