What You Need To Remember Before The Bear Season 3
“The Bear” season 1 introduces us to Carmy, a brilliant but troubled chef who returns home to Chicago after his brother Mikey (Jon Bernthal) dies by suicide. Carmy takes over Mikey’s sandwich shop, the somewhat rundown The Original Beef of Chicagoland. Carmy, who is an award-winning chef who has worked in some of the best restaurants in the world, wants to improve things at the Beef, a decision that has him clashing with employees like Mikey’s friend Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and line cook Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas). Other employees include Marcus (Lionel Boyce), who starts off as the restaurant’s bread baker before becoming a pastry chef, and Neil Fak (Matty Matheson), a family friend who is sort-of/kind-of the Beef’s handyman.
To help get things up and running, Carmy hires Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) to be his sous-chef. Eventually, Carmy, with Sydney’s help, begins to turn things around. However, he learns that Mikey owed a considerable debt — $300,000 — to Jimmy (Oliver Platt), a family friend that Carmy and his sister Natalie, aka Sugar (Abby Elliott), think of as an uncle. Through a series of trials and tribulations and incredibly stressful moments, the crew at the Beef grows closer. The season ends when Carmy finds the $300,000 Mikey had borrowed stashed away in a bunch of tomato sauce cans. The Beef closes down, with the plan to now use the money to transform the place into a fine dining restaurant. The planned name of the new restaurant? You guessed it — The Bear.
