TV Series· 2022· Drama
The Bear: it draws on 3 recorded sources.
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Cinematographer Drew Wehde says he and Christopher Storer have studied Soderbergh for a decade and rewatch Ocean's Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen: the crew of specialists, the fluid ensemble staging and the cool, kinetic cutting carry into The Bear's kitchen.
Before The Bear, Christopher Storer made a documentary at The French Laundry in the style of Chef's Table; the show's reverent, close-up food photography and fine-dining flashbacks borrow that look.
Events, places, movements and ideas outside fiction that this work is recorded as drawing on.
Real world
The series is set inside the kitchen culture of restaurants, its brigade system, its language and its pressures, with the chef Courtney Storer as culinary producer.