This Episode of 'The Bear' Left Me Speechless

Anyone who has dared to attend a Family Holiday Dinner—let alone an Italian one!—will relate to the opening moments of The Bear Season Two's standout sixth episode: "Fishes." In a flashback to a Christmas Eve dinner roughly five years ago, three siblings—Carmy, Mikey and Sugar Berzatto—stand outside, deliberating how exactly to tip-toe around the ticking time bomb that is a certain family member. Here, it's their mother, and her trigger? Whenever Sugar asks: "Are you OK?" (Spoiler: she asks "Are you OK?" many, many times, with catastrophic consequences.)

View in Browser  SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE The Bear Season 2's 'Fishes' Episode Left Me Speechless Anyone who has dared to attend a Family Holiday Dinner—let alone an Italian one!—will relate to the opening moments of The Bear Season Two's standout sixth episode: "Fishes." In a flashback to a Christmas Eve dinner roughly five years ago, three siblings—Carmy, Mikey and Sugar Berzatto—stand outside, deliberating how exactly to tip-toe around the ticking time bomb that is a certain family member. Here, it's their mother, and her trigger? Whenever Sugar asks: "Are you OK?" (Spoiler: she asks "Are you OK?" many, many times, with catastrophic consequences.) Read More Five Fits With: The Bear Creator Chris Storer The guy behind the hit show—now back for its second season—serves up his thoughts on getting dressed. Read More We Haven't Seen the Last of the Biden Impeachment Nonsense Even an incoming Democratic majority is no guarantee that the train will decelerate Read More Saudi Arabia and Cristiano Ronaldo Have Sparked a Money-Drenched Tug-of-War in World Soccer If an autocratic state's slush fund offered you tens of millions of dollars to play soccer in the desert for a couple of years, would you take it? What about a hundred million? Believe it or not, these sums are actually below some early reports of what's been on offer to a few marquee players after Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) took over four of the Saudi soccer league's biggest teams this month. Cristiano Ronaldo was already over there, playing for Al-Nassr since January after he accepted an offer that by some reports totals over $200 million per annum. These contracts are not public and the sums are not confirmed, but the exact numbers almost don't matter. The message is clear: come play in Riyadh for a couple years and never worry about money again. Come to Jeddah and set your family up for generations. Read More 24 Undershirts So Good You'll Want to Wear Them on Their Own These top-tier versions of the classic tee can pull double duty in a pinch. Read More Eco-Conscious Kicks and More of This Week's Best Menswear Releases Hot new drops for the first official week of summer. Read More Those Who Remain in Haiti—and Those Who Leave Haiti's myriad problems are partly due to bad governance, but also other factors: natural disasters, an unfair global economy, and Haiti paying reparations to former French enslavers for its freedom. While the natural and manufactured disasters are not insignificant, it is unsettling that there is an overabundance of stories about Haiti's suffering rather than the narratives that I had known. I learned very early that being Haitian was that we might have a memory or experience of the country that contradicts the news. The rhetoric of chaos and terror is what most Americans are taught about Haitians and Haiti. Impoverishment is the avatar of how contemporary Haitians are perceived—which precludes reflection on anything else we offer. As a part of the diaspora, I shoulder a responsibility to find the nuance beyond the myopic poverty narrative, to celebrate the Haitian spirit. Read More Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice/Notice at Collection esquire.com ©2023 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019