The Guide #96: The Bear’s secret ingredient? Character you want to root for

By rights, a pop-culture newsletter should this week be discussing the biggest pop-cultural event of the year so far: the atomic bomb v the pneumatic bum. But you’re hardly lacking for Barbenheimer coverage elsewhere on the Guardian (here are our Barbie pieces; here are our Oppenheimer ones), and besides, there’s another major cultural drop this week that merits its share of the limelight: the arrival (in the UK) of The Bear’s second season.

Of course, some might argue that The Bear has had its share of the limelight already: its first series was , after all. In fact, as excellent