In my opinion, The Bear season 3 can go in two different directions. The first direction the series can take, which is the one I’m hoping for, would involve Carmy descending into culinary management madness as he tries to become the legendary restaurateur he set out to be since the series saw its inaugural episode. As he gets further lost in the sauce (read: consommé), Richie, Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), Marcus (Lionel Boyce), and his sister, Natalie (Abby Elliot), try to reel him in, leading to a healthy source of tension-breaking that allows viewers to breathe for a second.
But if The Bear decides to take a darker turn with season 3, I fear that we’ll end up with another show like House that started out with a strong sense of humor and got increasingly serious as the series progressed into its later seasons. I’m not entirely against The Bear taking this approach, but if everybody is straight-faced and serious the entire time, I may decide to tap out early.