There is an argument to be made that The Bear\u2019s<\/a> season 2 finale ended on a pretty downbeat note. After all, Carmy\u2019s<\/a> mental state had deteriorated after he got stuck in a walk-in refrigerator during his restaurant\u2019s friends and family night, he\u2019d had a fight with Richie, and he\u2019d destroyed his relationship with Claire.<\/p>\n However, you could also argue that, in a broader sense, things were looking up. Despite bumps in the road, the friends and family night had been a success, and the team were ready to move forward and make their new fine-dining establishment, The Bear, a success.<\/p>\n In the third season\u2019s<\/a> finale, the tables were flipped. It proved to be an inverse of that moment, with a party atmosphere prevailing for most of our favourite characters, while in actuality, bad omens were everywhere.<\/p>\n The finale took place almost entirely at Ever, the restaurant ran by Olivia Colman\u2019s Chef Terry, which we had learned earlier in the season, was shutting its doors for good.<\/p>\n News of the closure of Ever, one of the best restaurants in Chicago where Carmy, Will Poulter\u2019s Luca and Richie<\/a> had all trained, had sent Carmy spiralling \u2013 however, it was nothing compared to what closing night would mean for him.<\/p>\n With The Bear closed for the night, Carmy, Luca and Sydney<\/a> all attended a commemorative party at Ever, and as they were served some of the restaurant\u2019s to-die-for food, they reminisced about their past restaurant experiences, and talked about what the business means to them.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Richie stayed in the back with the wait staff he had bonded with in season 2\u2019s stand-out episode, Forks, and tried to get his mojo back once more. While that experience had brought him alive and shown him the passion he could bring to his job, working at The Bear, with Carmy\u2019s frantic working style, had sucked some of the joy out of it for him.<\/p>\n As Luca, Sydney and the other diners ate and chatted, Carmy spied his old New York boss amongst the other diners, Joel McHale\u2019s ruthless, bullying Chef Field.<\/p>\n While Chef Field\u2019s belittling words have haunted Carmy\u2019s thoughts since the beginning of the series, this is the first time we\u2019d seen them come face to face in the present day, and Carmy was stunned, almost to the point of breakdown.<\/p>\n After a long time staring at him throughout the night, Carmy got up and confronted him in private, confessing how Fields had affected him, how he damaged his mental health so thoroughly, and how he still thinks about him too much.<\/p>\n Fields refused to apologise, saying he turned him from a mediocre chef to a great one, and saying he never thinks about him at all, leaving Carmy distraught.<\/p>\n Back in the kitchen, Richie asked Sarah Ramos\u2019s Jessica how she maintains her passion for the job, and she said she surrounds himself with good people outside of work. We know that Richie has been lonely since the breakdown of his marriage to Gillian Jacobs\u2019s Tiffany, and a glint in his eye suggested that perhaps a future relationship with Jessica could be on the cards.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Sydney was approached by Chef Shapiro to run his new venture, a restaurant he was setting up from scratch. She had been offered a partnership agreement for The Bear by Carmy, which she had been reticent to sign.<\/p>\n Here, we finally learned that she had accepted the job with Shapiro, but that she hadn\u2019t told Carmy yet. Shapiro stressed to her the need to tell him soon, so he could get things moving.<\/p>\n Carmy had one final heart-to-heart with Chef Terry, and while Carmy stayed out, Terry, Sydney, Richie and Luca went off to party with some of the other guests and the team from The Bear, including Tina, Marcus and the Faks.<\/p>\n While the music blared and the team partied, Sydney became overwhelmed, went outside and broke down, seemingly having a panic attack.<\/p>\n At the same time, Carmy got a notification telling him that the review for The Bear from the Chicago Tribune was live. This is the review he\u2019d been waiting on all season, after he and the team had only become aware a critic had been in after the fact.<\/p>\n While we couldn\u2019t read the whole review, it certainly seemed to be mixed, with words such as confusing, excellent, culinary, innovative, sloppy, inconsistent, simple, complex and stale jumping out.<\/p>\n Carmy also had multiple missed calls from Cicero and Computer. Having got guidance from Computer, Cicero had previously told Carmy that just one bad review would be enough for him to pull the plug on his funding for The Bear and shut it down. We had also seen him chatting with Computer, who told him that the financial situation was far worse than he was letting on.<\/p>\n And there we have it. As Carmy took in the review, he let out a simply \u201cmotherf***er\u201d and a title card came up, telling us that the story would be continued.<\/p>\n While fans will no doubt be assured to learn that The Bear\u2019s story will be continued, it certainly doesn\u2019t seem like good things are on the horizon for the team.<\/p>\n Unlike season 2\u2019s finale, where things were looking up barring personal struggles, here most of the team were blissful, partying together and enjoying each other\u2019s company, unaware of the dark storm clouds which are gathering around them.<\/p>\n From Sydney\u2019s apparently imminent departure, and her own feelings of guilt surrounding that, to Carmy\u2019s inability to restore his relationship with Claire, or, most critically, the seemingly desperate situation of The Bear itself, all seems lost as we head towards season 4.<\/p>\n Having learned of Tina\u2019s previous financial hardship, the sense of purpose the job has given Richie and the distraction it has given Marcus following his mother\u2019s passing, the restaurant\u2019s fate doesn\u2019t just affect Carmy, the diners or Cicero, but it is crucial to all those connected to it.<\/p> If season 3 was all about deepening our connections to these characters, the finale succeeded and left such an ominous sense of foreboding by showing us how it could all come crashing down.<\/p>\n Carmy\u2019s toxic management style, something he has clearly unwittingly learned from Chef Fields, and his obsessive non-negotiables around a constantly changing menu, are driving The Bear into the ground.<\/p>\n Going into season 4, if The Bear even lasts past episode 1, it would seem that it really is time for Carmy to dig deep within himself, attempt to move on from his trauma and learn to listen to and work with his team. Then they could perhaps truly, in the words of Mikey, let \u2018er rip.<\/p>\n [squirrel-affiliate-playlist squirrel_playlist_id=\u201d612\u2033 \/]<\/p>\n The Bear season 3 is available to stream in the UK on\u00a0Disney Plus<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0sign up to Disney Plus for \u00a34.99 a month or \u00a379.90 a year<\/a>\u00a0now.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0<\/strong>Drama<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0<\/strong>TV Guide<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/strong>Streaming Guide<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on. 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