The reason I love the Bear is the same reason why I hate the Sopranos.

Between the noise of Italian families and the obnoxiously tight grip that holds onto resentment the early seasons feels like the world we inherited by a pre therapy generation. In a "The Batman" esque way the show establishes the protagonist early on as a postmodern anti hero; a chain smoking, tattooed, traumatised and emotionally stunted chef. Again while most people I speak to hated the end of "The Batman" because the protagonist actually over comes something and grows from his established identity as vengeance incarnate, I love that the Bear just shows someone grow like Carmen.

Unfortunately I am all too familiar with this cultural war, an expression of grief & pain repackaged and sold back to us as an ideal. As an archetype. No brotha, you're just fucked, work it out.

Where a Tony Soprano pasifies and comforts the viewer for his complete refusal to change and his charismatic confidence in every decision that leads him down an even darker path, The Bear seems to have answered my prayers when it chooses to commit to having a character with accountability.

Dressing up our anti hero in the mystery of scars and tattoos only to then deconstruct the archetype for what it really is. I always hoped something so Meta Modern would come out of this decade. Through this deconstruction we receive something productive. Yes he's fucked but what is he actually gonna do about it, show me. Somewhere along the way we accepted that if our heroes grow it's fantasy or it's fiction, if they don't we applaud because we accept that as a win for our own short comings. Accepting a culture where the fantasy is our hero making us feel better about ourselves in place of inspiring us to be better. Terrifying

Nothing has quite touched on these themes so well that I've ever seen. Here it feels real, it feels painful and it feels cathartic and sincere.

Attached below you'll find my Reflection on Season 3 last year. This show always seems to feel relevant to where I am at when I watch as all my favourite pieces of art do. Please I'd love to hear back from you all about what you thought if you have seen it yet!

Stupidly enough as I'm always looking at clothes, in the heat of the drama of the last episode I noticed how shit the collar fit on Carmy. The Merz B Shwernen Tee looks great on him regardless but it reminded me of when I was designing it and how specific I was about perfecting the neckline of our Fitted T-Shirts. For all those asking our White Fitted Raglan T-Shirts will be back in just a week.