Honeydew (The Bear)

The series follows Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto, an award-winning New York City chef de cuisine, who returns to his hometown of Chicago to run his late brother Michael's failing Italian beef sandwich shop.

With 7 weeks left before the grand opening, Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and Natalie (Abby Elliott) discuss a recent problem with trademarking the name.

[3] Lionel Boyce said that when he received the script, he felt that the episode would feel like "a very intense and scary action movie", given Marcus' lack of knowledge over the restaurant and country.

[5] Poulter said that he was a big fan of the series, and "literally begged" Storer to give him a role, "He was kind enough to gift me with the offer to play Luca, and it really changed my life, to be honest.

"[6] To prepare for the role, Poulter practiced at multiple restaurant venues in London for months, which allowed him to form a backstory for his character and understand it.

He said that the biggest lesson was "to show that there's a way of being in the kitchen — in a senior position, in order to be authoritative — you don't have to scream and shout and throw pans and be an asshole."

Justin Charity of The Ringer wrote, "None of these characters deserve the rough treatment to which they often subjected themselves at the Original Beef, but Marcus in particular, in the first years of his relatively late start in the culinary world, needs a cooler head and a steadier hand than Carm and Syd typically provide in the heat of the moment.

In fairness, I, too, lost my mind watching Marcus still fussing over those goddamn doughnuts while his colleagues were clearly in agony during the infamous to-go order meltdown in last season's penultimate episode.

"[11] Marah Eakin of Vulture gave the episode a perfect 5 star out of 5 rating and wrote, "I left "Honeydew" even more in love with Marcus than I already was, and really impressed with Lionel Boyce's work in the role.

He's an island of chill calm in an ocean of roiling, nightmarishly hard times and on a show like The Bear, that kind of energy and presence is invaluable, to say the least.