New Delhi, June 26 -- The morning The Bear loses its most volatile engine is the morning the show finally becomes what it was always built to be.

not whether Carmen Berzatto can outrun the trauma that made him a great chef, but whether the people he gathered in that kitchen can run it without him. The season picks up on the morning after Sydney Adamu, Richie Jerimovich, and Natalie Berzatto learn that Carmy has left the food industry. What follows plays out across eight episodes in real time, structured as a single day of service that the production has designed as both a formal argument and a farewell.

Jeremy Allen White, who won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series at the Emmys in three consecutive years, returns as Carmy, but th...