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Review: 'The Bear' Season 2 is chaotic and quiet, meditative and loud. It's perfect

Jeremy Allen White, right, stars as Carmen“ Carmy” Berzatto in Season 2 of "The Bear."

"The Bear," a story of food and the people who make it, is back. As my favorite new show of 2022, I have awaited its return with a combination of anticipation and trepidation — as one might feel awaiting the follow-up to an album that changed your life, or when bringing friends to a beloved restaurant with the hope it will live up to your memory and expectations, and the fear that it won't.

Well, I've watched it all and, if anything, it's an even better season of a show I already regarded as just about perfect. (Of course, it could not do what it does without that first season to build on.) To continue

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