A fine-dining chef returns home, finding gritty, relentless tension and heartwarming humor in his family's sandwich shop.
Intimate and tense, with dark satire. A full-attention watch at full speed. Emotionally it is devastating.
Nothing past what a TV-MA promises: some innuendo or implied sex and some violence.
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Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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