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The second season of FX on Hulu’s The Bear is upon us, and things aren’t getting any easier for our man Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) and his cousin Richie Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach). Carmy is a culinary wunderkind who has returned to Chicago’s south side to run his late brother Michael’s (Jon Bernthal) dive of a restaurant called The Original Beef of Chicagoland and was drowning in a kitchen full of clashing personalities, egos, and politics. His emotional and erratic right-hand man, cousin Richie, doesn’t help matters with his fly-off-the-handle personality and drug issues. Sometimes the Italian subs get put on the back burner as Carmy sorts out all manner of different problems that seem to pop up like a nightmarish game of whack-a-mole. The ecosystem within a kitchen can be very delicate, and establishing homeostasis is not easy. Drama in the kitchen has made…