I'm trying to start from a place of positivity.

The Bear, Season 2 – 3.5/5

The Bear has, surprisingly, become a great companion piece to 'Ted Lasso'. Both being, in essence, what it means to be a manager. Building a vision, corraling collaborators; finding faith in work. And season 2 throughout threatens to wholesale become 'Ted Lasso'. Good people! Giving everyone a chance! Everyone has a place in our future, no one is expendable. 'Forks' is a masterclass episode that shows how every job is worthy of respect, that there is something beautiful and worthwhile in being in the service industry, as to love is to serve. (Shit, it gave me a renewed faith in my own job.) The high-tension anxiety of Season 1 largely dissipates in the slow build of building a new place for everyone to belong. But eventually, that workplace anxiety returns in a great final episode that shows the other side of that, and upends the 'Ted Lasso'-esque build—doing something well may well mean at the expense of all else. It may mean yelling and screaming and hurting the people you love (which is hurting yourself). Ted Lasso was a great man and manager without having to compromise himself, but even he ultimately wasn't up for the cost of greatness. So here is a far less perfect version of him on the other side, striving for something without the emotional skills to manage it.