'The Bear's Season 5 Finale Teases Carmy's New Architecture Job

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Spoiler alert: This post discusses plot points in The Bear’s series finale.

All five seasons of The Bear had been building to one massive decision about Carmy Berzatto’s career, and the last few moments of the series revealed his surprising life pivot. Throughout the culinary drama, Carmy struggled between his masterful talent at cooking and the intense stress and anxiety that running a restaurant gave him. In Season 4’s finale, Carmy concluded that restaurant life had taken too much of a toll on his mental health, and quit his job running The Bear. And at the end of the show’s fifth and final season, he seems to have found a new profession that will foster his creative expression without making him reach a boiling point.

In one of the show’s last scenes, Carmy interviews for an internship at an architectural firm, hig...