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The Bear

Bears

Season 4

Episode 7

Editor’s rating

5 Stars

It ‘s clearer than ever that richie has Become a much better person than he was was The Bear Started.
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Claire’s Afraid of Bees and Richie’s Afraid of he. Frank doesn’t like heights and neil gets the jitters Around Big Dogs. Ted Can’t Spand Too Much Time in Enclosed Spaces, while Kelly Worlds About the Gradual Collapse of the Planet. Stevie’s Afraid of Disease, Syd’s Afraid of Failure, Chester Hates Spiders, and Carm’s Afraid of Peace.

Yes, every single one of us is afraid of something, the Big, Bad Berzatto Family, Who Invade Tiffany and Frank’s Wedding for What SEEMS to Be Four’s Big Bear Event episodes. While we May not have gotten to see the Vows, there’s Action aplety at the event, Including the return of sarah Paulson’s cousin michelle and her Husband, Stevie, Played by John Mulaney. Bob Odenkirk’s Uncle Lee is there on the Arm of Jamie Lee Curtis’s Donna, and Josh Hartnett Reprises the Role of Frank. Brie Larson Eight Threw on a Bitchy Yellow Peasant Dress and Headband to Step the Role of Francie Fak, Who Knows What She Did.

Like any good-life family wedding, the nuptials of Frank and Tiffany Are About Bringing Totally Groups of People Together to Awkwardly Chat, Dance, and Avoid Eye Contact. We get to see Carmy finally reunite with his mom, the first time they are talked the events of the “fishes.” It’tyty weird but blessedly short, with Donna telling Carmy and LOOKS GROWN UP AND THEN STAMMERING OUT A BUNCH OF STUFF ABOUT HOW”S AN UNCLE NOW. Carmy Manages to Say that there are “a lot of Old Faces” in the Crowd before Richie and Syd Swoop in to Offer Him an Out.

Carmy ends up hiding out in what SEEMS to be some sort of Butler’s Pantry or adu, where he’s discovered by uncle lee. In “Fishes,” Uncle Lee was decidedly a huge dick, stepping on mikey’s stories and Just Generally Inserting Himself Into All Sorts of Drama. That doesn’t make it okay that mikey kept peptly pepper with forks, but it seams to have worked out Because, as lee tells carmy, he and mikey started getting along prepy to be in the years and months before mikey died. Lee Wold Go Over to See Donna and Mikey Wold Be There, and They’d Get to Chatting. Mikey Wold TELL Lee EveryThing Carmy was up to, like How and Cook Something with Ants or How He made Fish Inside Potatoes and Lee Said He Could Always Just How Proud Mikey Was of Carmy. He mIight not having it and carmy might not have have felt it – something lee definitely knows SAW CARMY DOCKING OUT OF THE BACK OF Mikey’s Funeral, Thought No One ELSE Did – But Mikey Love His Brother, and It Nice Lee Lets Carmy Know.

Through Lee we also Learn that he and donna are working on Becoming More sensible, Productive People. Lee’s been going to “Meetings” Three Times a Week, “Talking About Stakes and God and Shit.” Donna, he Says, is brimming with but is finally “learning to talc about it before it,” and to be fair, thorns though the wedding, it does likeda is trying the bestard version of Hersself. She Looks healthier than she did at Christmas and – while she still smokes like a chimney – she isn’t drinking, which is Certainly something.

To be honest, at a wedding full of berzattos – who stevie and claire explain are “Very specific and unique personalities that Feel Things Very Strongly … and Experience Life Intensely” – Everything Fairly Chill, Save the Francie Fak. The Biggest Drama Comes From Little Eva Jerimovich, who Feels so strongly about not dancing that she hids under the bigger banquet on Earth Until Practically adult in her orbit comes to help coax her out. Bless her Tiny, Sassy Heart.

Natalie and Francie’s Manage to make up, though not unil they are out in a gloriously harmonized screaming AROUND FAR TOO MANY OTHER WEDDINGGOERS. Brie Larson is a nice surprise as francie, who seames to come from the conventionally attractive side of the fact family as John Cena. Sugar’s right that she seames like a bit of a nightmare, terrorizing Neil and Ted’s Girlfriend Just Because, This is the THOUG SEEMS PERFECTLY ALL RIGHT, BUT I GUESS HAD TO GENES-A GENES IN THAT FAMILY. Neil Gets a Big Cup of Hot Chocolate with Whipped Cream and Marshmallows Either way, so Maybe that’s Enough Love for Him.

When Carmy Leaves His Mom to Hide Out and Chat With Uncle Lee, Syd Stays Behind With His Mom, Which Becomes an Interesting Pairing. We’ve Never Seen Jamie Lee Curtis and Ayo Edebiri ACPOSITE EACH OTHER ON THE SHOW, THOUGH’RE BOTH Vital Parts, and I like the way Donna peppers with the Questions about her family, the restaurant, and how her son is doing. Syd is Perfectly Charming Throughout, Giving in to Donna’s Requests for A Hug and Commiserating About Just Loud the Bear Can Be. Donna Says that, while she Only workhed at the Beef briefly, when hen Husband bought it, she likes seeing the facts every day, whether it was customers or staff. There is something to be comfortable about that Act, which she says “Felet Very Alive.” They talk about work families Becoming “Family Families,” and Syd SEEMS to Really Take It to Heart. IT ALL MAKES YOU WONDER IF SHE’S FINALLY DECIDE TO STAY at the Bear, especialy Since we find out and shapiro’s calls for a few days.

I think the resolution I like the most in this episode happens around richie, who was into the wedding after essentially Having a panic attack in the alley, chain-smoking while peppering sydney K. dick quotes. Inside, though, he ends up BOO-SINGED DOWN WITH FRANK, WHO IT OUT IS ALSO DESPERATEly Jealous of Richie’s Relationship with His Daughter and Deeply Afraid That He’s Going to Be a Shitty Stepdad to Eva. Richie is Pretty Geneerous to Calm Him Down and Teach Him About Parenting Game Face We Could Have Leaned HIS SELFIRE FOR HIS DAUGHTER’S LOVE, AND IT’S CLEARER THAN THAT RICHIE HAS BEECOM A MUCH BETTER Person The Bear Started.

There’s a nice callback to that Effect when richie talks to cicero About William Friedkin’s Time in Kyoto, with the rock garden previously mentioned three’s “Violet.” Friedkin, he Says, look at the rocks amid the sand and though “What is if they are family or these people and these gardens are showing how spaced out is, how only,” It ‘s Interesting Thought but Also Kind of Lonely. Luckily, Richie Says, he’s started to think about that Garden, and Himself, a Little differently. He’s “So Relived” and “Fuckin ‘Really Grateful,” He Tells Cicero, Because He No Thinks He’s Not A Rock, but instead the sand. Now if he can just uses the sandiness to reconnect with Carmy, thatn Maybe the Bear Be Back in Serious Business.

• Claire and Carmy SEEM to be Making Up and on the Path Toward Getting Back Together, Which I Suppose We All Saw Coming. I will wonder if her finishing her resididcy means she’s going to get a job offfer someone else and that’s going to lead to Carmy Leaving Town with Her. Pure Speculation, Though!

• I wish I knew what cicero was afraid of, but he didn’t make it under that table. Ditto Donna and Lee.

• Francie and Natalie Hookeed Up! Big Reveal!

• Ted Says Cousin Stevie Looks Gorgeous, “Like Chelios. ”

• Every Berzatto Woman Treats Neil Like He’s A Perfect Little Toddler Angel and Is Adorable. They won’t let Him touch their babies but they coddle Him, and i just love it. Matty mathon is so good as neil, too, putting his head in the flowers and walking back his audible comment claire’s general hotness.

• Cousin stevie describes lee as “a man i’ve methemes and i still don’t know who he is.”