Affection in dysfunctional families is a often insanable fracture, almost impossible to interrupt: The Bear tells it very well. Starting from the famous “Fishes” (2×06) and continuing, between flashback and present, in the course of the 4 seasons, he always showed Carmy’s “ferior”, fueled by the absence of his father, the shady uncle Jimmy, the unpredictableness of an alcoholic mother and mental disorders, the sudden violence of Mikey, verbal and physical, and the depression that led him to suicide, the triggering factor of history.
The return of Carmy in Chicago, the management of the restaurant on the edge of the bare, the three hundred thousand euros of debts left by Mikey: as The Bear presents itself as a workplace dramedy, it is also – and above all – a family drama, with unsustainable inheritance, unresolved traumas and not called heavy as rotten.
“Gary”, ep. that precedes the 5th and last season, arrived at surprise on Disney+, tells a part that we knew little: the relationship between Richie – key character together with Carmy and Syd – and Mikey. A road trip between the two, set years earlier, towards Gary (Indiana), to deliver a losco pack of Jimmy, becomes the pretext to show, once again, the psychological impact that falls on the members of a family when someone is suffering from depression and other disorders.
60 minutes full of meaning, crossed by a latent tension that is constantly occurring and that explodes only in the final, anticipating a present twist that throws the bases for a start of season perhaps shocking.
The episode, written and interpreted by Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach – stratospheric in their roles – is a concentrate of life. A rising life like that of Mikey, who alternates moments of euphoria and love unbridled to others of verbal cruelty and violence, able to crush even the heart more accustomed to all this.
In the middle, Richie’s co-dependence from a cousin who hates and loves at the same time: who suffers and esteems, who fears and emulates until the last of his days, and beyond. Who still sees there, sitting next to him, in that car.
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