“The Bear” of FX serves another dreamlike intensity course in season four | TV / Streaming

One of my favorite moments of season 4 of “The Bear” is a kind of delicate ballet before chaos – a sequence without a dialogue that lasts almost three minutes. With the camera diving elegantly slowly about the kitchen, Sydney by Ayo Edebiri is preparing a dish of scallops seized, with the obsessive sounds of “slow disco” from Saint-Vincent offering a lush soundtrack (Do I think of what everyone thinks? I’m so happy to have come, but I can’t wait to leave …). The background colors pass stylized blue shades with purple and magenta, promoting the calm and dreamy atmosphere.

You must be extremely confident in the level of affection and faith that you have reached with your audience to achieve such a silently daring scene, and the creator of “The Bear” Christopher Storers and his very talented artist team have undoubtedly won than any other comedy of the series of the series of the series which was more rewarded during its first three seasons than any other comedy in the history of television. (The argument to find out if “the bear” is or not a comedy is over; this is not the case, but because most of the episodes are shorter of an hour, and because the people FX position it judiciously as comedy during the submission for rewards, a comedy is what it is officially labeled.)

“The bear” is also one of the most intense series of the decade, whatever the genre; I know some people who like the show but who could not cross the episode of Flashback on the Christmas day of the “fish” because he struck too close to his home and was too stressful. While the season four of 10 episodes does not lack unpacking heavy luggage, including an episode that takes place within tight limits and is played as something you would see on stage at the Steppenwolf Theater, the general tone is relatively light this time, highlighted by a starry episode by a guest who breaks the shorter motif there and 9 minutes. Even this episode contains some punchy dramatic moments, but it is balanced, it is one of the most dynamic and happy television pieces that I have lived for years.

Throughout the performance race, the overwhelming pressure of time was a constant theme. I have to build the new restaurant in 12 weeks. I have to show the house in time for the opening of the doors. I have to prepare this dish in less than five minutes. I have to make sure that customers are served in a timely time. I have to rush to the farmer market, I have to pay the invoices on time (or at least make a sufficient payment to buy a little more time). We literally obtain a time clock in the first episode of season 4, when the financial contributor’s uncle of the restaurant Jimmy (Oliver Platt), and his computer as a financial analyst (played by Brian Koppelman, “Rounders” and “Ocean’s Treeen” co-series) burst into the bear, and the computer connects a huge digital clock in the wall. The clock is set at 1,440 hours, 60 days, and when it exhausts, the restaurant will stop operations, unless a miracle occurs. The reminders of time spending are sprinkled throughout the show, external plans of clocks on buildings around Chicago to the rehearsal of the mantra “every second counts” to certain films playing on televisions, for example, a character in the time of the 1990s, and a scene will not stop a time in the 1950s.

As usual with the extended clan of Berzatto (as well as the “working family” of staff members), almost everyone’s life is in a state of flow, with parental problems in play. Carmy by Jeremy Allen White tries to manage his anger while continuing to keep her mother (Jamie Lee Curtis) at a distance. Syd plans to jump in a new restaurant. Richie d’Ebon Moss-Bachrach faces the imminent marriage of his ex, Tiffany (Gillian Jacobs), with the rich and boring of Frank (Josh Hartnett). The sugar of Abby Elliott, Ebraheim by Edwin Lee Gibson, Marcus de Lionel Boyce, Tina de Liza Colón-Zayas and the Balas by Corey Hendrix have their respective challenges. (The main distribution is once again superb, and yes, there are guest stars with the most welcome return, and some first leading passers -by.

The dialogue crackles and knows itself, whether it is a painfully honest monologue that must have taken two pages of a script, or well-observational liners, such as when Richie says to Carmen, “Can I lock, or will it interrupt your Mopin ‘?” Or when an adjacent character in Berzatto explains the family to a newcomer: “It’s a lot of people with very specific and unique personalities who feel things very strongly.” I would say.

Camera work and edition remain of the first order, because the series continues to find new unique ways to present the choreographed chaos of the kitchen, while celebrating the profession of cook and raised cooking. We also advent ourselves outside for insightful detours, such as when Carm takes a trip to Oak Park, or with an absolutely charming and warmly funny episode written by Edebiri & Boyce which presents the roots of the Sydney district and his life outside the restaurant. The showrunner Storers is a maniac with regard to needle drops, whether it be reminders placed with songs from previous seasons, or that it increases certain moments with selections ranging from “That’s the way” from Led Zeppelin to “Most of the time” (time!) By Bob Dylan to “It’s Magic” Arms around me “by Ed Sheeran. (The entire episode 2 is punctuated as a musical, but do not worry, the characters do not really burst in song.)

We do not yet know if there will be a season 5 of “The Bear”. I guess it will happen, and there is certainly a plethora of stories to be resolved. However, if we left the characters where they are at the end of season 4, they would always live in our imagination for the years to come. We know these people. They are three -dimensional, they are passionate, they are deeply imperfect, they are capable of breathtaking generosity and irritating petinity. Their life is noisy and funny and heartbreaking and chaotic, and we like to watch them cross all this.

The 10 episodes of season 4 of “The Bear” were projected for examination.