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Alison Herman
TV Critic
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“You did this,” Donna Berzatto (Jamie Lee Curtis) kvells to her daughter Natalie (Abby Elliott), offering praise in the middle of a particularly stressful day. (Though in this family, all days are stressful days.) She’s referring to the restaurant that bears — pun intended — a shortened version of their family name, and which serves as the namesake of the FX drama “The Bear.” It’s a full circle moment for this fraught mother-daughter relationship: a sign of how far Donna has come in performing basic parental tasks like expressing pride in her children’s accomplishments, and a reminder to take a beat and admire what the Berzattos are typically too overwhelmed to appreciate. Natalie accepts the compliment, but also corrects it: “We all did this,” she says.
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