The Bear Mauls the Wild Male Genius Chef Myth

Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto ricochets around his ramshackle Chicago restaurant like a man burning from the inside. From the moment he first appears in the new Hulu/FX series The Bear, we recognize the type: brooding bad boy chef with tousled hair and armful of tattoos. Every restaurant-dense city in America probably has its share, presiding over kitchens that are, as Anthony Bourdain put it Kitchen Confidential, “noisy, debauched and overloaded with faux testosterone.” The golden era of prestige cable and streaming shows fed on just such macho renegades; in fact, FX built its brand on series like Rescue Me (edgy, troubled… Read Full Article