Spoilers

I watched the next two episodes of The Bear from season one tonight on Hulu. This show has been cooking (ooh, bad pun, I know).

Episode 5: “Sheridan”

Episode 6: “Ceres”

I would say that I really enjoyed episode five a lot. This was the first time where I found that the whole group of characters started working as a team without any troublemakers (except Richie, of course). This episode saw just about anything that could go wrong, go wrong from the toilet exploding to loss of electricity and gas lines. Yet the staff pulled it together to still serve the food.

They do a great job of letting us know the stakes involved in the show. You believe that there is no way that they can survive shutting down their restaurant because they just can not afford to lose the money they would have made. I really enjoyed seeing how they were working together to overcome this series of events that were potentially overwhelming.

Sydney brought the fire in both this episode and episode 6. In six, she is able to calm down a possible gang fight outside of the restaurant by arranging to give them some leftover sandwiches. While she was taking care of business, Richie was running around the restaurant looking for his gun.

Richie is showing his own weaknesses in each episode, even though in five he comes through in a sense. When Carmy discovers that Richie has been selling cocaine out the alley behind the restaurant, he is extremely mad, but he needs Richie to sell some one more time to pay for a repair that they had to fix. After this, though, it does feel as if everyone in the restaurant is feeling their place except for Richie.

In episode six, we get a flashback where we see Michael for the first time, played by Jon Bernthal, telling a story to Carmy, Richie and Sugar. Bernthal is an outstanding actor and seeing him as the mysterious older brother makes me very anxious to see what events or emotional situations led to Michael’s suicide. Richie does imply that Michael was the person who told him to sell the cocaine in the first place, as a way of gaining money for the restaurant. This makes me wonder considering how much money Michael had borrowed from Oliver Platt’s character, what was happening with the money.

There are only two more episodes from season one and I expect them to be fire.