Kitchen nightmares are transformed into brilliant artistry in The Bear | Brad Newsome
Perhaps it’s because American comedian Mo Amer looks so robust that the huge vulnerability he shows in this semi-autobiographical comedy series hits so hard.Amer plays Mo Najjar, a man whose backstory is Amer’s own – he’s a stateless Palestinian whose family fled Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait only to become trapped in a never-ending asylum-seeker limbo in Texas.
The series begins with Mo losing his job in a mobile-phone shop because his boss has been spooked by immigration raids. But while Mo can always hustle a few dollars – and his patter selling fake designer goods out of the boot of his car is very funny – he has other pressures too, beginning least with his feisty Mexican girlfriend wanting to get to know his disapproving widowed mother .
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