Why Carmy walking away might be the most honest ending The Bear could deliver

FX's The Bear Season 4 finale featured an intense conversation between Carmy, Sydney, and Richie, where the former revealed his decision to leave their titular restaurant and retire from cooking for good.

While Carmy's decision was hard for Sydney and Richie, it was the best ending the show has ever had throughout the four seasons. By transferring control over his restaurant to Sydney, Richie, and Natalie, Carmy finally broke his toxic cycle of dominance over others and took the first step in healing his traumas.

Through various conversations with his family and friends, Carmy realised that cooking was just a form of escapism for him, and now is the perfect time for an alternative career path.

The Season 4 ending reiterated the need to break toxic behaviour patterns by resolving Carmy's deeply seated traumas and insecurities.

More on The Bear Season 4 finale in our story.

The Bear Season 4 finally took the first step in healing Carmy's inner traumas

The Bear has largely stayed away from exploring Carmy's mental health, as the character had escaped difficult conversations with his family and busied himself in the restaurant. However, Season 4 took the first step in introducing the necessary changes in Carmy and slowly healing his traumas.

In contrast to The Bear Season 2's intense (but highly popular) episode 'Fishes,' Season 4 saw the Berzatto family coming together for the wedding of Tiff and Frank in the episode Bears. While Fishes exposed the ugliness and dysfunction of the family, Season 4's Bears acted as the perfect antidote to that episode, which allowed Carmy to right his wrongs with his family.

The Bear Season 4 gave Carmy the much-needed space to have honest conversations with his biological and restaurant family and solve differences with them.

At the wedding, Carmy finally sits down with Uncle Lee, who encourages him to make his own choices, and the secret about Carmy attending his brother's funeral is also revealed. Carmy's healing takes a different turn when he also confronts Donna, who surprisingly admits her failures as a parent and as Carmy's mother.

In addition to these difficult conversations, Season 4 also gave Carmy some much-needed bonding time with his sister, after Tina makes him realise that he has not yet seen his newborn niece. As he apologises to Natalie, she encourages him to make a conscious choice about his professional career, indirectly prompting him to realise that cooking might not be his passion anymore.

Carmy finally realised his shortcomings in The Bear Season 4 finale

While The Bear is already renewed for Season 5, the Season 4 finale looked like the end of the show. However, it is also the basis of a new beginning as Carmy realises that cooking was a form of escapism for him.

Since the show's inception, the restaurant has been Carmy's top priority, and cooking was his only passion. However, by the end of the latest season, the young chef realised that cooking was only a means for him to escape his dysfunctional family and suppress the trauma of his brother's death.

In addition to the many confrontations he had with his family, Carmy also made up with Richie after their memorable fight scene in the refrigerator room in the Season 2 finale. After Carmy came clean about the big secret that he attended Mike's funeral (to Richie), he finally tells the reason he was angry with his brother's best friend.

Richie's closeness with Mike and the Berzatto family was a key reminder for Carmy about his failed relationships with his brother, which found an outlet through Richie. He apologised for his past behaviour, and Richie got one of his Berzatto brothers in The Bear Season 4 finale.

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