Carmen Berzatto spends the first episode of The Bear completely miserable and deeply in debt. He's just inherited the restaurant that his brother left to him before killing himself, and with the restaurant comes hundreds of thousands of dollars of bills and loans to pay back, and not a single helpful tip from his brother on where to find the money to save his mess of a sandwich shop. So, Carmy does what anyone in his situation would do—he goes home, opens his oven, and retrieves a few pairs of the extremely rare, vintage pieces of denim he's storing there.

Disney It’s amazing, as chefs since the beginning of time must surely have reflected, what people are willing to swallow if you give it an appealing name and serve it up pretty. (I refer the innocent diner to the surprise package known as sweetbread.) The Bear is an eight-part, half-hour comedy-drama — chowder-thick on the drama, consommé-thin on the comedy — that arrives this week on Disney+ accompanied by the kind of slavering American reviews that, were it a restaurant rather than a TV show set in one, would result in six-month waiting lists for a table by the toilets, on a Tuesday.

“You gotta be kidding me,” Richie says as he enters the three Michelin star restaurant to stage, a kind of internship (usually unpaid) in the fine dining world where one gets to work alongside the team of a high caliber restaurant. It was Carmy’s idea. His WTF reaction is to the faux cotton candy clouds, dried citrus, and other ingredients hanging from the ceiling that greet those lucky enough to eat here.

This story contains spoilers for the Season Two finale of The Bear. The first season of The Bear proved that Jeremy Allen White and co. had the chops to make one of the best shows on television. Their secret sauce? Making every second feel entirely unhinged. The Bear depicted a bunch of personalities—who presumably made minimum wage—screaming at each in an Italian beef shop as if it was a three-star Michelin restaurant.

Imagine coming home from school one day, only to discover that your mother is secretly married to the leader of the Triads. Even worse! She's cutting up a dead body with a drill—and assassins are after both of you. Well, if anything, it's the setup for the new Netflix action-comedy, The Brother's Sun. The series is anchored by Michelle Yeoh as "Mama Sun," the matriarch of the powerful gangster family who has to clean up the mess while protecting her two sons.