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What to watch: ‘The Bear’ is back with even better ingredients


Three new series – Netflix’s “Supacell,” Prime Video’s “My Lady Jane” and Apple TV+’s “Land of Women” — debut this week, while “The Bear,” beloved by viewers and critics alike, drops all 10 episodes of Season 3 on your streaming platter — at once.

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Which one serves up the best meal? Read on.

We also pint you to a superior but disturbing film on Shudder, a riveting drama that’s set almost entirely in a New York taxi cab and an A24 coming-of-age debut feature about an 11-year-old girl realizing mom is indeed flawed and human. We also highly recommend motoring your way over to see “The Bikeriders,” during its second week of release.

“The Bear Season 3”: Showrunners Joanna Calo and Christopher Storer whip up a savory, absolutely delicious third course for fans of the Emmy-winning FX series. It picks up immediately after the chaos wrought in Season 2’s intense finale that involved  a “Family and Friends” dinner going topsy-turvy at a new restaurant. Episode 1 finds obsessive Chicago chef Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) out of the the walk-in fridge he got trapped in and is now stewing in a hangover of regret and self doubt having unwittingly severed his relationship with nurse Claire (Molly Gordon) while offending everyone else around him.

With the official opening of his swanky The Bear restaurant looming soon and news of a restaurant review coming out, everyone working in front of the house and in back of it, along with financial backer and Berzatto family friend Jimmy (Oliver Platt) are on tenterhooks and at loggerheads. Carmy’s insistence to create a Michelin-starred new menu every night strains everyone to their breaking point, specifically level-headed, supremely talented chef/potential co-owner Sydney (Ayo Edebiri, capable of channeling so much with one resigned glance) who suffers from imposter syndrome; the hot-headed head of the front of the house Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach, explosively vulnerable again)’ and dessert chef Marcus (Lionel Boyce), a series fave now burdened with grief.

True to the show’s high standards, each episode contains some of the sharpest writing and the best acting (Edebiri’s panic attack almost …read more

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