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“The Bear” confronts Carmy’s nightmare: A boss who believes in creating excellence through pain

Bosses like Joel McHale's NYC chef, who haunted Carmy and this show's viewers since the start, are all too common

Published July 3, 2024 1:30PM (EDT)

The following contains spoilers from "The Bear" Season 3, including the finale

Joel McHale’s living nightmare of a New York chef turns up for the first time in the second episode of “The Bear,” malevolently hovering inches from the hero’s right shoulder. Horrific doesn’t begin to sum up the man’s management skills properly – he is concentrated nuclear fallout in human form. A plague of acid vomit.

Moments after he strides into the scene, firing a line cook for messing up a sauce, the celebrated culinary master sets to barking random numbers into Carmen Berzatto’s (Jeremy Allen White) ear to throw off his system.

Then come the toxic whispers. “I get it – you have a short man’s complex. . . . Is why you have the tattoos and your cool little scars and you go out and take your smoke breaks? It’s fun, isn’t it? But here’s the thing: you’re terrible at this. You’re no good at it.”

Charring his star employee with curses, he berates him for his........

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