“The Bear” season 2 deserved better than what it got. After a highly acclaimed and buzzy first season (which just snagged 13 Emmy nominations), the FX culinary comedy/drama released its whole second season on Hulu in one drop. Instead of savoring one new episode a week — and having a whole day or more of discourse about standout episodes, like the celeb-studded anxiety attack “Fishes” or the meditative Copenhagen capsule episode “Honeydew” — we blew through all ten of them in just a week.
So we decided not to get carried past “The Bear” too quickly. This week, we circled back a whole three weeks in the cultural conversation to dive into the second season of this show — a season that slowed down the pace and opened up its scope as the plucky staff of The Original Beef retrain and rebuild toward an eventual reopening as a fine dining establishment called, of course, The Bear. This season takes Tina and Ebra to culinary school to brush up on their technical skills, while Rich…
