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FX's 'The Bear': A funny, raw, real drama in a restaurant kitchen

Jeremy Allen White plays a wunderkind chef who returns to his family's restaurant after a tragedy. The Bear knows exactly what it's doing, and it does it well.
Jeremy Allen White as Carmen 'Carmy' Berzatto, Lionel Boyce as Marcus, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richie.

On Thursday, all eight episodes of the comedy-drama series The Bear will drop on FX.

And it? Is fantastic.

Smart, funny, raw, tense, warm but not sentimental and, most of all, . Mark your calendars, clear your schedule. Trust me on this. I see a lot of TV for this job, and I don't find myself feeling the way I feel about this show terribly often. I can think of only a handful in the past few years that.

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