A scrappy upstart hits big, grows ambitious, gets lost in the sauce: For the past four seasons, this has been the familiar arc of The Bear’s protagonist and The Bear itself. Christopher Storer and Joanna Calo’s FX series arrived in 2022 like a lightning strike — a transfixing jolt of television that minted stars of its leads and injected the erotically tinged “Yes, chef” into our popular lexicon. What followed was often exhilarating and, from around season three onward, often just as exasperating. By the time the show was piling Faks up to the ceiling, its self-indulgences made it easy to resent even as it could still dazzle. But the endpoint of this arc is familiar, too. In its fifth and final season, The Bear scales back down to its fundamentals and delivers a satisfying farewell to one of the most electrifying television series of the past decade.
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