Mat Dwyer knows he is lucky to have escaped with nothing more than a bruise on his thigh after he got between a mama bear and her cub at his family’s lodge at Red Bay early Wednesday morning.

There is a moment in Season 4 of FX's "The Bear," which has taken over every summer on TV since it premiered in 2022, when you acutely remember why you got so sucked into this show in the first place.

Early this season, we find out what that review says, but what it says doesn't change the trajectory of his efforts, which bend still toward: get better, improve, figure it out, become perfect.