i feel like s3 will start with some kind of conversation between syd and carmy abt how she rejected marcus and his breakup with claire, and then them agreeing that chefs especially them can’t afford to have “fun” and then the whole season will be scattered with moments of them spending all their time together in the restaurant, where long shifts turns into seamless teamwork turns into lingering touches and hidden smiles turns into spontaneous trips to hole-in-the-wall restaurants turns into memes sent over text turns into soft phone calls in the night till it’s just them enjoying each others company becoming two peas in a pod and having fun. and then the last episode will leave us with some moment of triumph after the overarching conflict is defeated and then sydney will look across the kitchen to meet carmys eyes who was already looking at her (as he always seems to be) and theyll smile at each other with such warmth and love only for her to be pulled away by tina in a hug and carmy by richie who’ll punch him in the shoulder, glance towards syd then back to carmy with a smirk who just shakes his head with the smallest hint of a smile. syd in the middle of her conversation will look back to him with that same smile and that’ll be the end of the season but only the beginning of their realization of their feelings for each other.
itll be the slowburn of the decade.