The Bear’s chaotic matriarch is the Berzatto family’s foundational world, cracks and all.
, showing up at the restaurant for Friends and Family night, but stops short of entering and lingers outside, a specter haunting her children. When Pete spots her through the window smoking in the blistering Chicago cold, he tries to get her inside, but she can’t bring herself to join. She can hardly stand anybody knowing she was there. “I don’t deserve to see how good this is,” she says. “I want them to have this good thing. I don’t want to hurt it.
Armed with a perpetually full wineglass, Donna spends the evening slaving over an extravagant meal. The kitchen bursts with dirty pans and splattered red sauce as timers constantly erupt, historically rooting a motif that runs throughout the series. Donna’s cooking a fleet of dishes simultaneously, and only she seems to know the design. Laboring in the kitchen is her way to express affection, but it’s also a source of deep resentment.
For a show that excels at bottling anxiety, the tension in “Fishes” is unbearable. The emotional abuse builds as Carmy and Natalie attempt to placate their mother, who bullies and manipulates them in direct proportion to their offers of help. At dinner, Donna’s prolonged absence creates a concentrated space for the tension between Odenkirk’s Uncle Lee and Michael to reach fever pitch, and when Donna finally makes her grand entrance, the other shoe drops.
The Berzatto clan is a chaotic bunch by default, but Donna is a presence forceful enough to overwhelm everyone else’s bullshit.The Berzatto children are indelibly shaped by Donna’s emotional swings. Michael suffered from intense self-loathing and similar volatility of the self that likely informed his eventual death by suicide.
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