But it’s a notch lighter than it was before - just a touch more hopeful while introducing new areas of tension via inescapable relationship cycles and the costs of an all-consuming career. It’s still a series about inheritance, ambition, and how a history of family pain can turn those two things into competing forces. Season two, to its great credit, becomes a different kind of show - a season with its own set of questions and preoccupations. Doing nothing with his dead brother’s struggling Chicago sandwich joint meant a slow downward slide toward bankruptcy and failure, but trying to escape only seemed to make the whole project sink faster. Its center was Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), and its overwhelming mood was Carmy’s sensation of standing in quicksand. In its first season, FX restaurant drama The Bear was about inheritance, avoidance, and grief.
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