I'm glad you caught the "best friend" moment! When I watched I was like Sydney is his best friend...he can't say that to Claire because he knows deep down he feels more than friendship for Sydney. If they don't make them canon then we know the lead writers were smoking crack in the alley with Josh 😂
Amazing, edit! I honestly didn’t see them as a couple in season one, but the fact that the thought of Sydney stops Carmy from having a panic attack…wow. Also the scene with them under the table was more intimate than any scene with Carmy and Claire. I realized when watching season two that when Carmy talks to Sydney, he’s able to talk about his emotions, his past and his trauma more freely. She’s his safe space. I’m absolutely rooting for them as a slow burn couple that finds their way to each other while healing their own past trauma.
I started this show this weekend and I'm hooked. I didn't see the chemistry in season 1 and haven't gotten to the episode you mention in your comment. But there's a scene in season 1 where carmi gets his brother's letter, he's trembling and is trying to find the strength to open it, but he texts Syd!! I found it random to text her in such a moment and rationalized it as a deflection tactic. As I read your comment I see it wasn't random at all. They were laying gems since then that there is a deeper connection going on with these two!
@@mitztheo I forgot about that moment! Now I want to re-watch season one lol I definitely feel that Sydney is a comfort for Carmy. He feels at ease around her. I don’t think they’re ready for each other right now, but I would love to see them together down the line. I can’t wait for you to watch all of season two and see the deeper connections they build!
@@mitztheoWe actually see the start of his comfort in opening up to Sydney in S1e3 when she tells him her vision for The Beef. This scene is so important bc it sets up the basis of their relationship moving forward. Carmy trusts her bc they have a shared vision of what the restaurant can become. They get each other. With one another, they're "not alone." This is why she's the first person he tells that he's been going to Al-Anon meetings. We also see just how strong their shared vision is when she comes back in S1e8 and they go back and forth stating this vision out loud without needing to explain it to each other. A lot of ppl watching the show just see Sydney as his mentee, but that is not what she is. She's his partner. When he tries to do everything himself and treats her like his mentee, he messes things up, like S1e7. When he leans into her being his partner, she is comfortable leaning in too and the restaurant gets better, seen in the staff's growth, the table scene, & their soft opening. Yes, she learns from him but she also makes him better. They need each other. This better dynamic between the two of them is why him yelling at her looks different from S1 to S2, and has a very different result.
i like to think that scene when she’s looking at other restaurant’s menus and carmy cancels on her for claire and she’s talking to one of the chefs about having a partnership and she gives Sydney a look kinda like be careful (I forget what she says) like a warning to Sydney that to me implies not to get emotionally entangled with your partner in business to which Sydney kinda denies like no it’s not like that. but idk i like to think that shows a bit of proof of this connection between them or is at least PART of the reason that chef gives her that look or could be one of the underlying reasons though not so obvious. and it the conversation under the table supports that in a way, Sydney has to clarify she wasn’t jealous (even though it might not be romantic) it’s jsut my own proof that there could be something 😂 i could be wrong
i DIDNT SEE THE CHEF COAT COMING. i was always just like why does he keep staring at his coat and i just thought it was making him anxious and it turns out it was because hed been thinking aboht getting her one. it was like damn wow
this is EVERYTHINGGG…the “best friend” part…but no imma need these ppl to pay these writers cuz the fact that we got s2 in just a yr is insane😭 i need my family back already
They film episodes incredibly fast, I heard that they film 1 episode in 4 days. The only thing that might slow them down for the next season is the writers strike going on in Hollywood.
@@lilacbp3908yeah i heard that too! like they wrapped in may and the season came out in june?!? but yeah the writers strike might slow em down but i hope we get some renewal news soon
I’m pretty sure the creator said in an interview that seasons 1-3 have already been written. If the writers strike didn’t happen, they’d already be working on the next season
it’s how in the middle of his anxiety, he remembers Syd & becomes a little calm. they’re so thoughtful to each other tho. the ‘let it rip’, her chef coat, how he’s always forgiving when her recipes go wrong etc love ❤️
Yes I see the chemistry wish they had more scenes together because it explosion of chemistry idc what anyone else says they need to give it to us slow idc
I loooove the slow burn. The simmer of a stew thay takes its time in the pot and you know all those hours of cook time it will be delicious. Let the fire burn slow writers!
It's like I remembered Carmy asked about Syd's mom, but seeing it back-to-back in this clip further confirmed he's trying to get in her business😂 I love them!
The show-runners have, to one degree or another, downplayed the Carmy and Sydney "ship" while spending quite a bit of budget, dialogue, and staging to reinforce it. This is typical of every consequential show I can think of that featured a core "ship" that eventually went "canon." Here are the three elements that I believe irrefutably indicate that the Carmy and Sydney "slow-burn" is not only real but actually core to the entire show's meanings: 1. Claire introduces the classic LOVE TRIANGLE, albeit with a core Freudian symbolism: Claire represents Carmy's Freudian retreat into his traumatic past, which in Freudian terms, Carmy undertakes both to relive yet again and yet somehow resolve that past that is, in fact, already gone. Claire represents the "ethnic," class, and cultural community of Carmy's past as a certitude of what he already knows. She was the unrequited love of this past now consumated; but even now, Carmy is strikingly passive. Claire initiates the affair, making the once invisible Carmy present, taking him back to his early teen years to relive and "correct" it. But to Freud's point, this time travel neither repairs nor resolves the past: it is already gone, already the realm of James Joyce's The Dead. BY CONTRAST, Sydney represents the Shock of the New. However kind, smart, and beautiful Claire is, she is NOT the redeemer and transformer of our PRESENT world. But Sydney is. The LOVE TRIANGLE is thus freighted with this deep meaning: EITHER Carmy will choose to remain imprisoned by his past world -- symbolized terrifyingly by his self-entrapment in the refrigerator room and his subsequent breakdown into his family's madness and rage at the season II conclusion, for which Claire can offer neither escape nor moral clarity -- OR he will choose the Shock of the New, Sydney. For it is Sydney, the force of transformation and light, who literally translates Carmy's vision for the Bear's redemption as a local sandwich shop into a reality, rallying, inspiring, and unleashing the warrior-as-artist ethos in Carmy's once demoralized army: she transforms the slacker Tina into the actual crack Brigade leader; she inspires Marcus to venture from middling baker into craftsman baker and finally master patissier-artist who might rival even the genius of Carmy and Sydney. In the wake of Sydney's galvanizing presence, EVEN the shattered, shambolic Ritchie stunningly, poignantly sheds his perennial chaotic defeat for a sleek, fiercely focused force of command , calm, and purpose. Sydney is THAT "fire" -- Carmy's words, not mine--of transformation. 2. The "Under-the-Table" moment is not a merely beautiful interlude that makes us wonder if Carmy and Sydney are, Claire notwithstanding, in fact the real "under-the-table" love affair. But the entire scene actually CONFIRMS Carmy and Sydney as the real love affair of consequence. The entire scene is an elaborate, detailed recreation of Renaissance painters Dosso Dossi's "ALLEGORY OF FORTUNE" and Sandro Botticelli's "VENUS AND MARS": Find those paintings online. Look at them. And there you will find, in essence, Carmy and Sydney as two lovers in the near IDENTICAL pose, position, and poise, lying together in their intimate, tender, eroticized moment. In Dossi's version, cornucopia -- food !!--literally hovers around the couple, the archetype of love couple, symbolizing how romantic, erotic love nourishes the body and soul and, in the case of the Bear, serving to remind us that identical to Dossi's two lovers in repose, Carmy and Sydney are literally surrounded by food, too, as Dossi's two "under-the-table" lovers restaged are in THEIR RESTAURANT. This "Under-the-Table" scene is a brazen ALLUSION to Dossi and Botticelli's paintings, BOTH to underscore and to CONFIRM the "under-the-table" affair of the heart between Carmy and Sydney "lying" in plain sight (literally, both hidden under the table, yet there in plain view for all to see, if one merely looks) 3. " I couldn't do this without you. I wouldn't even want to do this without you." Game. Over. This "ship" has left the harbour. FIRST, this is the declaration, rendered in such startlingly intimate, stark, and quietly passionate terms that Carmy has NEVER yet told Claire. Oh, yes, Carmy tells Claire that he is both grateful and fearful that their affair seems as a lovely but fragile as a dream -- and it is. But tellingly, Carmy NEVER declares how EXISTENTIALLY vital Claire is to him in every possible way in the realm of Love Supreme. But he literally tells HER--Sydney--this very core truth truth of his heart. SECOND, in these spaces away from the world -- the gritty little alley and now "under the table" -- Carmy suddenly, strikingly transforms from wounded, withholding, volatile hunched-over boy to a MAN of quiet, determined, righteous power, speaking a stark but lyrical poetry of Truth. He speaks this, HIS Truth, to ONE person alone: HER. And that Truth, CARMY'S SPOKEN TRUTH, is how central SHE is to him and how HE is committed to making right, being right, doing right by HER. That woman is Sydney THIRD: What would Claire -- ANY woman in love with one man --think, feel, and KNOW about that man were she to see him sharing THAT intimate a moment, that intimate a pose, speaking that passionate a Truth SOLELY to HER, a genius-level artist, brilliant, and undeniably beautiful young woman who is now in that instant revealed irrefutably as THE woman for whom Claire's supposed love "CANNOT DO" without and "WOULD NOT WANT TO DO" anything without. Game. So. Over. Thus, the love triangle. But what so utterly lifts this triangle above the maudlin and the soap opera are the moral, ethical, and existential stakes it entails. Upon Carmy's choice pivots EITHER his surrender to the imprisonment within HIS PAST of family madness and the regime of his Chicago suburban community-of-origin's provincial, imprisoning racial, cultural, gendered "norms" ...OR to make the metaphorical and real Crossing to the distant shore: setting sail, as it were, to the community of meaning, the transformational power of Art, and the redemptive hope of Love, simply put, that Sydney embodies, represents, and offers him. THAT is what makes The Bear so vital an allegorical meditation on Art as the means for Transformation. And the core of this allegory is the passion play of choice and redemption that Carmy must make, and that choice, ALL that it entails and means, pivots on HER: Sydney.
HOO BOY 😮💨 the level of analysis here is astounding, thank you for the deep dive 🩵 here's hoping our boy carmen wisens up and keeps embracing the redemptive hope that syd represents, AS HE SHOULD!
Speaking of symbols, have you noticed how at the end of season 8 when Carmy is making dinner to claire, It cut to sydney changin clothes and the frame purposelly show a three of swords tattoo on her shoulder?! AND then, at the beginning of season 9, Claire and Carmy are in bed together, and then suddenly it cuts to sydney chest while she adjust her uniform and there’s a red stain over her heart! Like It’s driving me insane how they are giving all this hints and nobody picks them up
@@gloria7190: YES! OUi! Sì! Sí! How right you are! The Three of Swords connotes a heart pierced by said swords, symbolizing the pain inflicted by words, actions, or, conversely words and actions not taken by the most crucial of loves. HOWEVER, in Tarot, the same insignia juxtaposed against rain and/or storm clouds can also symbolize, what else, redemption. How hauntingly appropriate, as Sydney is the Transformer/Redeemer in the passion play segment of this allegorical show. Sydney, as with Carmy, is also deeply wounded, haunted by her family's past. Unlike Carmy, the driven, visionary warrior-as-artist Sydney is endowed with conscience and empathy, no matter how strong-willed and formidable a figure she is. Carmy is wounded and brilliant, but he is revealing the clear signs of remaining willfully imprisoned in his legacies (hence, the terrifyingly clear metaphor of his self-induced imprisonment in and resort to his family's rage and madness within the refrigerator room at Season 2's conclusion) As the problematic but brilliant cultural anthropologist Joseph Campbell (Sarah Lawerence College) so insightfully wrote, the person whom we love has the greatest ability to inflict the deepest wounds upon us, but that very same person almost alone has the ability to salve and heal those same wounds. There is no question that Carmy is falling ever deeper for Sydney. But there is a powerful, overriding question upon which the matter or choice resides: whether the madness and brutality of Carmy's family has not only wounded him but also marked him with the same madness and brutality. There are worrying signs. For all of his galvanizing qualities, Carmy is flawed in the darkest of ways. In a very real sense, Carmy wants both Claire and Sydney for himself, solely on his terms. This is raw patriarchal self-privileging. For Carmy, Claire represens the certitude of his past, his confining, constricting suburban community of origin, which however terrifying it was, provides Carmy a sense of the known, the familiar, the reinforcing. By contrast, Sydney represents the hope and Transformation of the present and future: creativity, community, the eros of both desire and Art. He loves Claire, perhaps, but there is no doubt that he is falling ever deeply IN love with Sydney. But is Carmy prepared for the metaphorical and literal Crossing that love demands? That is to say, will he be prepared to give of himself as Sydney can for him? There are deeply moving, startling signs -- his de facto out-of-nowhere confessions of love; his ceding over half his family legacy to HER, Sydney; his surrender to HER. He flees her. He runs back to her. He shares a bed with Claire but literally dreams of Sydney. He burns bridges to HER but bequeaths half his family legacy to HER, Sydney. No matter where he flees, he runs back to HER. But there are also the damning contradictions: he confesses to Sydney under tables, in grotty alleys, but not yet in the "real" world; he outright lies to Sydney as to who Claire is : a lie that Sydney is more than wise to, for Carmy's eliding truths about Claire ironically tells the great Truth for which he cannot or will not yet take responsibility: Carmey is absolutely unwilling to share, let alone, lose Sydney as his "Under-the-Table" romantic love. But he blinds and deafens himself to how that wounds both Claire and Sydney. Indeed, what would Claire --what could ANY woman in love with one man (or other woman) think-- feel, and know should she have seen Carmy and Sydney together under that table, with Carmy confessing the love in he has for Sydney (that IS what Carmy was doing!) in a poetry of Truth that he has never found for Claire? Clarie would have known instantly that Carmy was never hers. Sydney OWNS him. But what can that say of Carmy's self-privileging, his blindness and deafness to the love of his heart and the love of his past? The Bear, I think, so brilliantly explores Art as the means of Redemption and Transformation, while questioning the show's own assumptions: can Art truly cure all? If the artists themselves are so wounded and flawed in character to match their own aspirations, what hope, then, can Art really offer us? THAT is why l'Affaire du Coeur between Carmy and Sydney matters so vitally: the brilliance of the writing and above all the performance and chemistry of the two principle actors bring the ethical, moral questions to life through that most vital of things, Joseph Campbell's double-edged sword of love, indeed.
I have watched this video an unhealthy number of times. The back to back, hand to hand, face to face bit gets me right in the feels each time. The best video hands down!
I’ll give them the first season even though I definitely saw sparks but I’m 3 episodes into the second season and they can’t continue to push the just friends narrative and ignore the chemistry I saw radiating from these two much longer. Wonderful Video ❤
JEREMY ALLEN WHITE, AYO EDEBIRI, JOINT EMMY AWARD WINNERS, BEST ACTOR/SUPPORTING ACTOR, THE BEAR "I couldn't do this without you....I wouldn't even want to do this without you." -As declared by Carmy Berzatto, virtuoso chef to Sydney Adamu, virtuoso chef, de facto husband and wife, The Bear
omg excuse me while i pinch myself and maybe slap myself and maybe run headfirst into a concrete wall to make sure this is real!? your edits are so wonderful and a delight to watch and thank you SO much!! 🥹 your polin vid to the classique "landfill" was truly inspired, i've rewatched it like 10x at this point 🩵
I did not understand people shipping them in season one at all like I just didn’t see it, but when the thought of her stopped a whole _panic attack?_ Like what? I’d taken Syd’s response to Claire being mostly that the restaurant was falling on her which I still think is true, but that panic attack part then the table discussion?? That table discussion did not feel platonic at all to me. I hope they are an intense slow burn tbh, it’d be cool if they didn’t even realize, but season 2’ll definitely add some shippers.
I only say this because b&w interracial ships tend to never end up canon or endgame. They’re constantly baiting them, and then playing the “boys and girls can be just friends,” card
THIS IS A CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE!! Discovered this first a couple months ago when I finished the bear season 2 and was looking for edits and I'm still obsessed with how perfect this song goes with the scene. The beginning part an end bit are especially my favourite part. Like I didn't even know the significance of those two scenes until I watched this video. The fact that I still watch this edit so often is just a testament to how good your editing is.
I rarely comment, and I need to let you know this is beautifully made! Excellent chef. From your video summary you sound just as obsessed about this show and ship as I am, only you have made an amazing tribute ship video, I love and appreciate it. Your song choice, I melt every time I rewatch this vid.
Wondrous edit - thank you so much: & yes - Syd making an omelette in (almost) real time is inspirational…I’ll get it one day! The editing, the music, the everything - perfect! 🔥💔🔥
Claire is so freaking annoying she thinks that she's Carmy's best friend you can tell by the way she said really, but we clearly know that his best friend is Sydney, Sydney is better for Carmy....they have way more chemistry with each other....they are the two that deserve to be romantically paired together....they make the most sense...they are awesome together!
Congratulations to All of the nominees for this fantastic show which I'm probably the only person on the earth who hasn't seen it 😢 I don't have Hulu...yet😊 if I'm not mistaken that clip of the gentleman she was talking to is Robert Townsend an actor who is actually from Chicago. I am going to binge watch this show...I can't wait 😊
there are certain times when i want certain characters to be together, even though i know it wont happen and there's prob not much if at all any chem btwn those characters just cz i dont want the characters a show is pushing to be tgthr, but THIS...!!! THIS is def not 1 of those times. maybe the wrters didnt mean 4 it to happen and the chemistry is coming from the actors, maybe you just dont like them as a pair, but u honestly cannot tell me there isn't sizzle btwn them. i'll give u s1. i'll give that cz they were getting to know each other, building good rapport cz they see and understand eo in a professional sense, getting acquainted, that's ok... but s2? nah... the chemistry was there, and it wasn't just the "we're besties" chemistry either. whether or not they're end game, the chemistry is still there. for those saying syd and cuz, i thought they'd go that route maybe but they've just evolved their reltshp into buds or like family. i don't see, personally, sparks. maybe they'll make it happen by giving them moments later, but as it stands, nah. same w syd and marcus, which just seems more one sided frm marcus. and carm and claire.. not feeling it. don't knw if it's intentional, or maybe it's just me, but i'm just not feeling this whole "the one who got away, and now she's back and i still feel the same way about her" thing. maybe its just me.. idk
You night need a magnifying glass. That whole conversation under the table, the stares, and their soft voices was mind-blowing. You should probably watch s2 ep 8, 9, and 10 in slow-motion.
If the romanticisize it fine - but I'm totally here for them just finding a best friends. Someone they trust and can open up to. Somehow would be even more beautiful.
I feel the closeness. A beautiful friendship. I don’t see them as a couple. Somehow I hope they will never be a couple. Because sometimes all u need is such a good friend that u can depend on completely. Sometimes romance can ruin it 😂
Sometimes romance doesn’t ruin it though. We’ll see what direction the creators, producers, and directors go with them, but I really don’t think anyone should assume that a romance between them would ruin anything. That’s a hefty assumption to make.
Only…the enigmatic Mom: we have no idea of how she behaved towards Dear Marcus…there’s an element there of him needing to compensate: And from whom was the package from Copenhagen…we’re actually TOLD of that! Given Will Poulter’s status now, & the delightful ease of the Bakery Sequences, nothing would surprise me: Watch the episode ‘Bolognese’ very carefully, & in the ‘countdown’ sequence - with the gas inspector, we get a blink-of-an-eye glimpse of Sydney’s past… Her devotion to Carmy is plain as day, but Syd isn’t here for the dating game: she sees into people, & what she sees In Marcus is… …back to enigmatic Mom? 💔
I’m Sorry After I Just Watched Season 2 Episode 9 Under That Damn TABLE MAN!!!.. That Conversation Has Me SOLD!!!… I Actually Really Want These Two To Be Together Fr!!!.. Idc What Any Of Ya’ll Say About It 🤎😂🤣👏🏾😍💯📱🎥
@@deebeary Omg Yes It Really Was Like Not Only Did I Like What He Said To Her But I Like How He Said It To Her!!..😩💯 It’s Always So Sweet / Kind And He Really Does Care About Her And Her Well Being
There is chemistry there between them i wasn't prepared for.
I'm glad you caught the "best friend" moment! When I watched I was like Sydney is his best friend...he can't say that to Claire because he knows deep down he feels more than friendship for Sydney. If they don't make them canon then we know the lead writers were smoking crack in the alley with Josh 😂
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😂😂😂😂😂 Josh!
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Hilarious 😂
Amazing, edit! I honestly didn’t see them as a couple in season one, but the fact that the thought of Sydney stops Carmy from having a panic attack…wow. Also the scene with them under the table was more intimate than any scene with Carmy and Claire. I realized when watching season two that when Carmy talks to Sydney, he’s able to talk about his emotions, his past and his trauma more freely. She’s his safe space. I’m absolutely rooting for them as a slow burn couple that finds their way to each other while healing their own past trauma.
I started this show this weekend and I'm hooked. I didn't see the chemistry in season 1 and haven't gotten to the episode you mention in your comment. But there's a scene in season 1 where carmi gets his brother's letter, he's trembling and is trying to find the strength to open it, but he texts Syd!! I found it random to text her in such a moment and rationalized it as a deflection tactic. As I read your comment I see it wasn't random at all. They were laying gems since then that there is a deeper connection going on with these two!
@@mitztheo I forgot about that moment! Now I want to re-watch season one lol I definitely feel that Sydney is a comfort for Carmy. He feels at ease around her. I don’t think they’re ready for each other right now, but I would love to see them together down the line. I can’t wait for you to watch all of season two and see the deeper connections they build!
@@mitztheoWe actually see the start of his comfort in opening up to Sydney in S1e3 when she tells him her vision for The Beef. This scene is so important bc it sets up the basis of their relationship moving forward. Carmy trusts her bc they have a shared vision of what the restaurant can become. They get each other. With one another, they're "not alone." This is why she's the first person he tells that he's been going to Al-Anon meetings. We also see just how strong their shared vision is when she comes back in S1e8 and they go back and forth stating this vision out loud without needing to explain it to each other.
A lot of ppl watching the show just see Sydney as his mentee, but that is not what she is. She's his partner. When he tries to do everything himself and treats her like his mentee, he messes things up, like S1e7. When he leans into her being his partner, she is comfortable leaning in too and the restaurant gets better, seen in the staff's growth, the table scene, & their soft opening. Yes, she learns from him but she also makes him better. They need each other. This better dynamic between the two of them is why him yelling at her looks different from S1 to S2, and has a very different result.
i like to think that scene when she’s looking at other restaurant’s menus and carmy cancels on her for claire and she’s talking to one of the chefs about having a partnership and she gives Sydney a look kinda like be careful (I forget what she says) like a warning to Sydney that to me implies not to get emotionally entangled with your partner in business to which Sydney kinda denies like no it’s not like that. but idk i like to think that shows a bit of proof of this connection between them or is at least PART of the reason that chef gives her that look or could be one of the underlying reasons though not so obvious. and it the conversation under the table supports that in a way, Sydney has to clarify she wasn’t jealous (even though it might not be romantic) it’s jsut my own proof that there could be something 😂 i could be wrong
@@NBAgladiatorWhat a great insight i loved reading this, thank you.
"You deserve my full focus." - Carmy
i DIDNT SEE THE CHEF COAT COMING. i was always just like why does he keep staring at his coat and i just thought it was making him anxious and it turns out it was because hed been thinking aboht getting her one. it was like damn wow
1. “That’s something”
2. “I’m sorry” *does hand over heart motion•
3. Her is her idol and she is his peace
this is EVERYTHINGGG…the “best friend” part…but no imma need these ppl to pay these writers cuz the fact that we got s2 in just a yr is insane😭 i need my family back already
They film episodes incredibly fast, I heard that they film 1 episode in 4 days. The only thing that might slow them down for the next season is the writers strike going on in Hollywood.
@@lilacbp3908yeah i heard that too! like they wrapped in may and the season came out in june?!? but yeah the writers strike might slow em down but i hope we get some renewal news soon
I’m pretty sure the creator said in an interview that seasons 1-3 have already been written. If the writers strike didn’t happen, they’d already be working on the next season
@@lilacbp3908 NO WHAT!? Is that even possible with the amount of scenes they have, there are so many different locations and stuff, respect for them.
@@Rookiekat-x2u The strike reaaaaly sucks, I hate it
it’s how in the middle of his anxiety, he remembers Syd & becomes a little calm. they’re so thoughtful to each other tho. the ‘let it rip’, her chef coat, how he’s always forgiving when her recipes go wrong etc love ❤️
They are so in sync it’s insane.
This is honestly the BEST Sydney and Carmy I’ve seen
😭🫶🏼 thank you so much, chef! there are some stunning edits of these two out there, especially with s2's release, so that means a lot
Definitely!!
Yes I see the chemistry wish they had more scenes together because it explosion of chemistry idc what anyone else says they need to give it to us slow idc
I loooove the slow burn. The simmer of a stew thay takes its time in the pot and you know all those hours of cook time it will be delicious. Let the fire burn slow writers!
It's like I remembered Carmy asked about Syd's mom, but seeing it back-to-back in this clip further confirmed he's trying to get in her business😂 I love them!
The show-runners have, to one degree or another, downplayed the Carmy and Sydney "ship" while spending quite a bit of budget, dialogue, and staging to reinforce it. This is typical of every consequential show I can think of that featured a core "ship" that eventually went "canon." Here are the three elements that I believe irrefutably indicate that the Carmy and Sydney "slow-burn" is not only real but actually core to the entire show's meanings:
1. Claire introduces the classic LOVE TRIANGLE, albeit with a core Freudian symbolism: Claire represents Carmy's Freudian retreat into his traumatic past, which in Freudian terms, Carmy undertakes both to relive yet again and yet somehow resolve that past that is, in fact, already gone.
Claire represents the "ethnic," class, and cultural community of Carmy's past as a certitude of what he already knows. She was the unrequited love of this past now consumated; but even now, Carmy is strikingly passive. Claire initiates the affair, making the once invisible Carmy present, taking him back to his early teen years to relive and "correct" it. But to Freud's point, this time travel neither repairs nor resolves the past: it is already gone, already the realm of James Joyce's The Dead.
BY CONTRAST, Sydney represents the Shock of the New. However kind, smart, and beautiful Claire is, she is NOT the redeemer and transformer of our PRESENT world. But Sydney is.
The LOVE TRIANGLE is thus freighted with this deep meaning: EITHER Carmy will choose to remain imprisoned by his past world -- symbolized terrifyingly by his self-entrapment in the refrigerator room and his subsequent breakdown into his family's madness and rage at the season II conclusion, for which Claire can offer neither escape nor moral clarity -- OR he will choose the Shock of the New, Sydney. For it is Sydney, the force of transformation and light, who literally translates Carmy's vision for the Bear's redemption as a local sandwich shop into a reality, rallying, inspiring, and unleashing the warrior-as-artist ethos in Carmy's once demoralized army: she transforms the slacker Tina into the actual crack Brigade leader; she inspires Marcus to venture from middling baker into craftsman baker and finally master patissier-artist who might rival even the genius of Carmy and Sydney. In the wake of Sydney's galvanizing presence, EVEN the shattered, shambolic Ritchie stunningly, poignantly sheds his perennial chaotic defeat for a sleek, fiercely focused force of command , calm, and purpose. Sydney is THAT "fire" -- Carmy's words, not mine--of transformation.
2. The "Under-the-Table" moment is not a merely beautiful interlude that makes us wonder if Carmy and Sydney are, Claire notwithstanding, in fact the real "under-the-table" love affair. But the entire scene actually CONFIRMS Carmy and Sydney as the real love affair of consequence. The entire scene is an elaborate, detailed recreation of Renaissance painters Dosso Dossi's "ALLEGORY OF FORTUNE" and Sandro Botticelli's "VENUS AND MARS":
Find those paintings online. Look at them. And there you will find, in essence, Carmy and Sydney as two lovers in the near IDENTICAL pose, position, and poise, lying together in their intimate, tender, eroticized moment. In Dossi's version, cornucopia -- food !!--literally hovers around the couple, the archetype of love couple, symbolizing how romantic, erotic love nourishes the body and soul and, in the case of the Bear, serving to remind us that identical to Dossi's two lovers in repose, Carmy and Sydney are literally surrounded by food, too, as Dossi's two "under-the-table" lovers restaged are in THEIR RESTAURANT.
This "Under-the-Table" scene is a brazen ALLUSION to Dossi and Botticelli's paintings, BOTH to underscore and to CONFIRM the "under-the-table" affair of the heart between Carmy and Sydney "lying" in plain sight (literally, both hidden under the table, yet there in plain view for all to see, if one merely looks)
3. " I couldn't do this without you. I wouldn't even want to do this without you."
Game. Over. This "ship" has left the harbour.
FIRST, this is the declaration, rendered in such startlingly intimate, stark, and quietly passionate terms that Carmy has NEVER yet told Claire. Oh, yes, Carmy tells Claire that he is both grateful and fearful that their affair seems as a lovely but fragile as a dream -- and it is. But tellingly, Carmy NEVER declares how EXISTENTIALLY vital Claire is to him in every possible way in the realm of Love Supreme. But he literally tells HER--Sydney--this very core truth truth of his heart.
SECOND, in these spaces away from the world -- the gritty little alley and now "under the table" -- Carmy suddenly, strikingly transforms from wounded, withholding, volatile hunched-over boy to a MAN of quiet, determined, righteous power, speaking a stark but lyrical poetry of Truth. He speaks this, HIS Truth, to ONE person alone: HER. And that Truth, CARMY'S SPOKEN TRUTH, is how central SHE is to him and how HE is committed to making right, being right, doing right by HER. That woman is Sydney
THIRD: What would Claire -- ANY woman in love with one man --think, feel, and KNOW about that man were she to see him sharing THAT intimate a moment, that intimate a pose, speaking that passionate a Truth SOLELY to HER, a genius-level artist, brilliant, and undeniably beautiful young woman who is now in that instant revealed irrefutably as THE woman for whom Claire's supposed love "CANNOT DO" without and "WOULD NOT WANT TO DO" anything without.
Game. So. Over.
Thus, the love triangle.
But what so utterly lifts this triangle above the maudlin and the soap opera are the moral, ethical, and existential stakes it entails. Upon Carmy's choice pivots EITHER his surrender to the imprisonment within HIS PAST of family madness and the regime of his Chicago suburban community-of-origin's provincial, imprisoning racial, cultural, gendered "norms" ...OR to make the metaphorical and real Crossing to the distant shore: setting sail, as it were, to the community of meaning, the transformational power of Art, and the redemptive hope of Love, simply put, that Sydney embodies, represents, and offers him.
THAT is what makes The Bear so vital an allegorical meditation on Art as the means for Transformation. And the core of this allegory is the passion play of choice and redemption that Carmy must make, and that choice, ALL that it entails and means, pivots on HER: Sydney.
This could not have been explained better! 👏
Ok u did that. Literally love this, AMAZING
HOO BOY 😮💨 the level of analysis here is astounding, thank you for the deep dive 🩵 here's hoping our boy carmen wisens up and keeps embracing the redemptive hope that syd represents, AS HE SHOULD!
Speaking of symbols, have you noticed how at the end of season 8 when Carmy is making dinner to claire, It cut to sydney changin clothes and the frame purposelly show a three of swords tattoo on her shoulder?! AND then, at the beginning of season 9, Claire and Carmy are in bed together, and then suddenly it cuts to sydney chest while she adjust her uniform and there’s a red stain over her heart!
Like It’s driving me insane how they are giving all this hints and nobody picks them up
@@gloria7190: YES! OUi! Sì! Sí! How right you are!
The Three of Swords connotes a heart pierced by said swords, symbolizing the pain inflicted by words, actions, or, conversely words and actions not taken by the most crucial of loves. HOWEVER, in Tarot, the same insignia juxtaposed against rain and/or storm clouds can also symbolize, what else, redemption. How hauntingly appropriate, as Sydney is the Transformer/Redeemer in the passion play segment of this allegorical show. Sydney, as with Carmy, is also deeply wounded, haunted by her family's past. Unlike Carmy, the driven, visionary warrior-as-artist Sydney is endowed with conscience and empathy, no matter how strong-willed and formidable a figure she is. Carmy is wounded and brilliant, but he is revealing the clear signs of remaining willfully imprisoned in his legacies (hence, the terrifyingly clear metaphor of his self-induced imprisonment in and resort to his family's rage and madness within the refrigerator room at Season 2's conclusion)
As the problematic but brilliant cultural anthropologist Joseph Campbell (Sarah Lawerence College) so insightfully wrote, the person whom we love has the greatest ability to inflict the deepest wounds upon us, but that very same person almost alone has the ability to salve and heal those same wounds.
There is no question that Carmy is falling ever deeper for Sydney.
But there is a powerful, overriding question upon which the matter or choice resides: whether the madness and brutality of Carmy's family has not only wounded him but also marked him with the same madness and brutality.
There are worrying signs. For all of his galvanizing qualities, Carmy is flawed in the darkest of ways. In a very real sense, Carmy wants both Claire and Sydney for himself, solely on his terms. This is raw patriarchal self-privileging. For Carmy, Claire represens the certitude of his past, his confining, constricting suburban community of origin, which however terrifying it was, provides Carmy a sense of the known, the familiar, the reinforcing. By contrast, Sydney represents the hope and Transformation of the present and future: creativity, community, the eros of both desire and Art. He loves Claire, perhaps, but there is no doubt that he is falling ever deeply IN love with Sydney.
But is Carmy prepared for the metaphorical and literal Crossing that love demands? That is to say, will he be prepared to give of himself as Sydney can for him?
There are deeply moving, startling signs -- his de facto out-of-nowhere confessions of love; his ceding over half his family legacy to HER, Sydney; his surrender to HER. He flees her. He runs back to her. He shares a bed with Claire but literally dreams of Sydney. He burns bridges to HER but bequeaths half his family legacy to HER, Sydney. No matter where he flees, he runs back to HER.
But there are also the damning contradictions: he confesses to Sydney under tables, in grotty alleys, but not yet in the "real" world; he outright lies to Sydney as to who Claire is : a lie that Sydney is more than wise to, for Carmy's eliding truths about Claire ironically tells the great Truth for which he cannot or will not yet take responsibility: Carmey is absolutely unwilling to share, let alone, lose Sydney as his "Under-the-Table" romantic love. But he blinds and deafens himself to how that wounds both Claire and Sydney.
Indeed, what would Claire --what could ANY woman in love with one man (or other woman) think-- feel, and know should she have seen Carmy and Sydney together under that table, with Carmy confessing the love in he has for Sydney (that IS what Carmy was doing!) in a poetry of Truth that he has never found for Claire? Clarie would have known instantly that Carmy was never hers. Sydney OWNS him.
But what can that say of Carmy's self-privileging, his blindness and deafness to the love of his heart and the love of his past?
The Bear, I think, so brilliantly explores Art as the means of Redemption and Transformation, while questioning the show's own assumptions: can Art truly cure all? If the artists themselves are so wounded and flawed in character to match their own aspirations, what hope, then, can Art really offer us?
THAT is why l'Affaire du Coeur between Carmy and Sydney matters so vitally: the brilliance of the writing and above all the performance and chemistry of the two principle actors bring the ethical, moral questions to life through that most vital of things, Joseph Campbell's double-edged sword of love, indeed.
I love them. So subtle and sweet they've been written. It's a slow burn but it's there. Beautiful edit.
Their chemistry is off the charts but they’re not ready for one another yet. Two seasons and I think their platonic relationship will turn
The cinematography on this show is amazing, stunning. Edit👏
I have watched this video an unhealthy number of times. The back to back, hand to hand, face to face bit gets me right in the feels each time. The best video hands down!
nailed it, jeff 🥺
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I’ll give them the first season even though I definitely saw sparks but I’m 3 episodes into the second season and they can’t continue to push the just friends narrative and ignore the chemistry I saw radiating from these two much longer. Wonderful Video ❤
Right Like I’m Saying Tho!!!..
Right! The show might have to tell the actors to turn it down some if they don’t want us shipping them.
@@ms.bubs4fun506literally because wtf is this??? You’re tryna tell me that’s NOT supposed to be romantic?
Art as the vehicle of transformation. Artistry as the mode of community building and redemption. What a show. Carmy and Sydney. What a couple.
JEREMY ALLEN WHITE, AYO EDEBIRI, JOINT EMMY AWARD WINNERS, BEST ACTOR/SUPPORTING ACTOR, THE BEAR
"I couldn't do this without you....I wouldn't even want to do this without you."
-As declared by Carmy Berzatto, virtuoso chef to Sydney Adamu, virtuoso chef, de facto husband and wife, The Bear
this is *the* definitive sydcarmy edit
omg excuse me while i pinch myself and maybe slap myself and maybe run headfirst into a concrete wall to make sure this is real!? your edits are so wonderful and a delight to watch and thank you SO much!! 🥹 your polin vid to the classique "landfill" was truly inspired, i've rewatched it like 10x at this point 🩵
@@elliefante ashsfjjfjd STOP this made my day 😭💛
AAAAAAWWWWWW 😭 Didn't see them as a couple in Season 1 but Season 2 DEF has chemistry and you have to be blind to not see the writers teasing that.
I can’t wait until they grow into loving each other. Carmie needs to step up. FR
I did not understand people shipping them in season one at all like I just didn’t see it, but when the thought of her stopped a whole _panic attack?_ Like what? I’d taken Syd’s response to Claire being mostly that the restaurant was falling on her which I still think is true, but that panic attack part then the table discussion?? That table discussion did not feel platonic at all to me. I hope they are an intense slow burn tbh, it’d be cool if they didn’t even realize, but season 2’ll definitely add some shippers.
If they bait us imma be PISSED
I only say this because b&w interracial ships tend to never end up canon or endgame. They’re constantly baiting them, and then playing the “boys and girls can be just friends,” card
Like bitch be so fucking fr rn
@panny7227 I'm just hoping that they're following the richonne print (rick & michonne from the walking dead)
This is easily the best edit I have seen! Kudos!!
i watched a lot of syd and carmy ship vids after binging the bear and this is by far the best mv!!!!
This is the best video of these two
Wow thank you for taking the time to make this! It was so good!! Def the best one I have seen
Oh my goodness. aaaaaaaah!!!! scream. squeeal. so much joy in me rightnow... aaaaaah.. Thanks for this fantastic piece of art
you are so welcome 🤗 glad you enjoyed!
One of the best edits I've seen
this song is still such a good song for edits - amazing video well done!
THIS IS A CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE!! Discovered this first a couple months ago when I finished the bear season 2 and was looking for edits and I'm still obsessed with how perfect this song goes with the scene. The beginning part an end bit are especially my favourite part. Like I didn't even know the significance of those two scenes until I watched this video. The fact that I still watch this edit so often is just a testament to how good your editing is.
oh wow thank you so much, you're the sweetest 😩🩵
This is my favorite one of them 🥹🥹
I rarely comment, and I need to let you know this is beautifully made! Excellent chef.
From your video summary you sound just as obsessed about this show and ship as I am, only you have made an amazing tribute ship video, I love and appreciate it. Your song choice, I melt every time I rewatch this vid.
thank you chef 🥲
That lyric-video sync was incredible! Gorgeous edit
I literally watch this all the time and never commented, but I love it so much ❤❤
this is so beautiful 😭💖
Best edit I've seen!!! ❤ Love them so much
Syndney turns Carmy's head. So un expected but nice😊
You are amazing, simply put.
Wondrous edit - thank you so much:
& yes - Syd making an omelette in (almost) real time is inspirational…I’ll get it one day!
The editing, the music, the everything - perfect!
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This is sooo good!! 👏🏾👏🏾 Love them 🤗
Great video! Love the parallels
thank you so much! 🩷 i'm a fan of YOUR edits, so this made me squeak
This was so great!
Esas miradas largas son tan profundas que estrujan el corazon hasta dejarte sin aliento!!!
This is amazing!!!
actually i wanna see them as a couple 😮💨
Omg im in love with this video ❤
Love them
They keep me going every day 😭😭😭
Wonderful edit my firend!!
Claire is so freaking annoying she thinks that she's Carmy's best friend you can tell by the way she said really, but we clearly know that his best friend is Sydney, Sydney is better for Carmy....they have way more chemistry with each other....they are the two that deserve to be romantically paired together....they make the most sense...they are awesome together!
Congratulations to All of the nominees for this fantastic show which I'm probably the only person on the earth who hasn't seen it 😢
I don't have Hulu...yet😊 if I'm not mistaken that clip of the gentleman she was talking to is Robert Townsend an actor who is actually from Chicago.
I am going to binge watch this show...I can't wait 😊
I absolutely adore this edit.
These two are goin to get married and have kids idc wat nobody say 😭
I'm currently looking for fanfic. I love them
I need them to be together next season
there are certain times when i want certain characters to be together, even though i know it wont happen and there's prob not much if at all any chem btwn those characters just cz i dont want the characters a show is pushing to be tgthr, but THIS...!!! THIS is def not 1 of those times. maybe the wrters didnt mean 4 it to happen and the chemistry is coming from the actors, maybe you just dont like them as a pair, but u honestly cannot tell me there isn't sizzle btwn them. i'll give u s1. i'll give that cz they were getting to know each other, building good rapport cz they see and understand eo in a professional sense, getting acquainted, that's ok... but s2? nah... the chemistry was there, and it wasn't just the "we're besties" chemistry either. whether or not they're end game, the chemistry is still there. for those saying syd and cuz, i thought they'd go that route maybe but they've just evolved their reltshp into buds or like family. i don't see, personally, sparks. maybe they'll make it happen by giving them moments later, but as it stands, nah. same w syd and marcus, which just seems more one sided frm marcus. and carm and claire.. not feeling it. don't knw if it's intentional, or maybe it's just me, but i'm just not feeling this whole "the one who got away, and now she's back and i still feel the same way about her" thing. maybe its just me.. idk
That was beautiful!
ohhhhHHHMYGODISEEITNOW
Why did this make cry.
swear u deleted this edit, but u just changed the thumbnail lmfao
and yes I do come back to this regularly
The Fray for the win!
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Great video
I don't see the chemistry 😭😭😭
You night need a magnifying glass. That whole conversation under the table, the stares, and their soft voices was mind-blowing. You should probably watch s2 ep 8, 9, and 10 in slow-motion.
Also watch episode 8 of season one, and the first 2 episodes of season 2.
If the romanticisize it fine - but I'm totally here for them just finding a best friends. Someone they trust and can open up to. Somehow would be even more beautiful.
I agree. That's what I've been saying too.
Absolutely, but wouldn't be surprised if they kissed one day
🎶” like sister & brother,
We’ll wave to each other…
We don’t want all the world to know
We are really…”🎶
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The music is too damn loud kmt
I feel the closeness. A beautiful friendship.
I don’t see them as a couple. Somehow I hope they will never be a couple.
Because sometimes all u need is such a good friend that u can depend on completely.
Sometimes romance can ruin it 😂
Sometimes romance doesn’t ruin it though. We’ll see what direction the creators, producers, and directors go with them, but I really don’t think anyone should assume that a romance between them would ruin anything. That’s a hefty assumption to make.
I like the Big Brother little sister vibe they have. It displays a very special friendship
idt people realise that this is not meant to be a love story. thats clear. not all male female onscreen relationships need to be romantic.
Marcus Marcus Marcus!!! Dont friend zone him. He deserves a shot
he likes luca
Only…the enigmatic Mom: we have no idea of how she behaved towards Dear Marcus…there’s an element there of him needing to compensate:
And from whom was the package from Copenhagen…we’re actually TOLD of that!
Given Will Poulter’s status now, & the delightful ease of the Bakery Sequences, nothing would surprise me:
Watch the episode
‘Bolognese’ very carefully, & in the ‘countdown’ sequence - with the gas inspector, we get a blink-of-an-eye glimpse of Sydney’s past…
Her devotion to Carmy is plain as day, but Syd isn’t here for the dating game: she sees into people, & what she sees In Marcus is…
…back to enigmatic Mom? 💔
They are good friends sorry I can't see anything else only that
I’m Sorry After I Just Watched Season 2 Episode 9 Under That Damn TABLE MAN!!!.. That Conversation Has Me SOLD!!!…
I Actually Really Want These Two To Be Together Fr!!!.. Idc What Any Of Ya’ll Say About It 🤎😂🤣👏🏾😍💯📱🎥
Agreed! The under the table scene was so intimate. I felt like I was intruding.🥰
@@deebeary Omg Yes It Really Was Like Not Only Did I Like What He Said To Her But I Like How He Said It To Her!!..😩💯
It’s Always So Sweet / Kind And He Really Does Care About Her And Her Well Being
It was so tender 😢
RIGHT!!!! SAME!
“And so say all of us!”
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