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Spoilers for all 10 episodes ofThe Bearseason two follow.
What do they order?
The meteoric popularity that comes with a breakout hit, of course.
But the taste is bittersweet.
All fictional media requires suspension of disbelief, and that is a delicate and difficult thing.
(All of this is a hoot if you know that Poulterloves to cookwhen hes not acting.)
Its not thatThe Bearcant return to its previously established methods.
In return, Mikey essentially holds the table hostage as he throws fork after fork at Lees face.
(It helps that Bernthal looks positively agonized, delivering a bone-deep performance of self-hatred.)
The new characters feel thinner, their presence less crucial and more ornamental.
But Curtis never disappears into the writing or the characters connections to everyone else at the family dinner.
In each moment, shes doing a little too much.
Cameos (unless theyre of the omnipresentRyan Reynolds self-promotionvariety) arent inherently bad.
