Unlike people, giving a series a second chance isn’t a dangerous decision. Just boredom or disappointment, nothing serious. Fortunately, returning to fiction doesn’t directly lead anyone to see a therapist, unless, who knows, in treatment.
I’m not ashamed to admit that I gave up on The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Fringe in their respective first seasons. It was more than worth continuing, as it just happened to me with “The Bear” (Disney+). Do You Know: A top chef (Jeremy Allen White) decides to return to his native Chicago to take over his family’s sandwich restaurant after his brother commits suicide.
I couldn’t see the point of the meat from the first season. Where his admirers saw tension, I saw only screams; Where they saw deliberate chaos, I saw only narrative apathy. Maybe it was me and not her, right? But ah, the second season… The second season has overwhelming meaning, direction, and depth, a collection of guest stars that doesn’t even surpass “Vacation at Sea,” and two of the best episodes to air this year TV (Fish and Holders). ).
“The Bear” is a series about broken people with visible wounds trying to validate themselves through their work. Does it sound familiar? Because to me it feels like everyday terror. people with a factory defect who, to get out of the hole, resort to an almost Teresian mysticism – escape between sulks -; Shipwrecked people who, to avoid drowning, try to empty the sea by swallowing. It’s also a series about second chances, which ultimately shows that the only urgent and essential chance is the one you have to give yourself.
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