Monday, July 25, 2022

What Inspired ‘The Bear'? The Creator Explains

Yes. Your friends are right. If you haven't done so yet, you need to watch The Bear. That should be perfectly clear by now. The Bear qualifies as the truest fire-and-blood depiction of restaurant life in the history of television, but it's more than that, too: The hurtling chaos of Christopher Storer's Chicago-based FX series feels like a metaphor for the collective stress of being alive in 2022. But for Storer himself, The Bear clearly embodies something else, too: a method of processing stories of loss, estrangement, trauma, addiction, and food from his own life. Esquire spoke with Storer to get the backstory on the TV show of the summer.

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