![]() Costar Ayo Edebiri has also been a breakout in the cast. ![]() The show quickly became an awards magnet in its first season, as did its star Jeremy Allen White (who won the trifecta of the Golden Globe Award, Critics Choice Award and SAG Award early this year) and is an early co-favorite along with Jason Sudeikis for the lead comedy series actor Emmy. After just eight episodes, it’s already probably the greatest scripted series that television has ever done that’s set inside a dining establishment. It captured the visceral, adrenalin-pumping chaos of the food industry in a way nothing had before, showing us just how unglamorous and dangerous (and yet colorful and compelling) a kitchen can be. ![]() “The Bear” introduced us to the pressure-cooker life inside an Italian beef sandwich shop in Chicago. But the legacy of scripted TV shows about cooking and restaurant-ing isn’t nearly as epic, which is why FX on Hulu’s “ The Bear” was such a revelation when it launched last summer. You’ve got everything from “Master Chef” to “Iron Chef” to “ Next Level Chef” to “Chef’s Table,” “Chopped,” “The Great British Bake-Off” and “The American Barbecue Showdown,” for starters. A quick glance at all of the reality cooking/competition shows on television will confirm this. We Americans are fascinated with food and the people who prepare and serve it.
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