Maybe I have Sydney brainrot so strong but the idea that Syd is a fangirl, or like easily into Carmy feels so bad to me. Sheās a woman in a field where talking to people like theyāre shit is normalized by older chefs, where yelling is okay, and itās toxic as hell. Idk I feel like she respects Carmy but she looks at him coming to Chicago/The Beef as an opportunity. Also she kinda sees him as Every other Asshole she had to work for when she talks to Marcus. But Iāll get back to that.
Like think abt it, she probably knows ppl (school gc, friends from school or work) who if they heard Carmen Berzatto is in your area, yes the guy who has awards and is known world wide ppl would be running to get an opportunity to start something with him. Itās a play, and Sydney sees it but also itās *her* city. Like Richie she knows her city, and knows what itās like to see ppl come in to just get successful without keeping the culture intact. Fuck em, sheāll get there first and keep it true to what it is in its core.
She has been to The Beef, maybe not as often as she claimed but itās true. What she probably didnāt say is how she failed at her own business and wants to be somewhere that could work. And with his name how can it not? He knows what heās doing right?
Cue the mess of the show, but she respects him. Itās that level of okay youāre trying something, Iāll do it. She even says to him this wonāt work if you donāt listen and work with me. But when she leaves and eats with Marcus she doesnāt even think he would apologize. Just do that nod thing or vaguely acknowledge a wrong. Itās why that scene when Marcus comes back and Carmy apologizes is so important. Sydney isnāt a fangirl but she is someone who only knows Carmy through magazines and papers. she knows heās a great chef, but sheās met tons of great chefs, the only reason Carmy stands out to her is bc of that time in New York. Through his food she went āyeah this is what I want to give pplā.
Basically what Iām getting at is, everyone in their passion have someone that inspires them the most but because of multiple things you realize you are still vastly different people with different personalities and life and struggles. Sydney isnāt soft sheās still a black woman who had to pay her way through CIA, who didnāt grow up eating at all these nice places so she had to work for her money and then pay for it. Whoās been disrespected and yelled at like all other chefs, she isnāt green she is flawed. And she sure as hell isnāt a blushing at Carmy who in her eyes is like every other chef, but the last episode changes that.
Sydney Adamu is tired, and has been waiting so long to become the chef she KNOWS she is. She aināt a fangirl, sheās been put in a box not allowed to get out so her impatience is evident. Sheās hungry, the type a newbie is because her passion never went out. Itās why her failed catering haunts her itās proof the people in her life was right. But in the end, when Carmy is standing in cans of tomatoes and talks about the layout of family it clicks. oh heās the one that sees her, and she sees him more as a person. The last episode is the moment it hits her, Carmy isnāt like the other chefs in her life, now this is the real deal.
So I beg pls stop writing her as Carmy blushing love interest when tbr Carmy is the one in that spot. Because Sydney will put her feelings in a box and put it on a shelf and keep it moving, Carmy though? He will put his feelings in a box, then trip over it, look at it mortified, try to kick the feelings back in with mild success. He would fall for her first, and she would just not open hers until they stopped working together. Or if something else happened.
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