‘The Bear’: How Its Emmy-Nominated Dinner Episode Came to Feel Like ‘A Pot of Water That’s Coming to a Boil’

When editor Joanna Naugle first approached the “Fishes” episode of “The Bear,” she said she was given a specific note by series creator Christopher Storer and music supervisor Josh Senior: “It should feel like a pot of water that’s
coming to a boil, and then at the end, it overflows.”

That was the emotional genesis behind one of the most ambitious, star-studded and Emmy-nominated installments of the FX comedy. The Season 2 episode is one of the most nominated single episodes in Emmy history...