The Bear’s Extended Family of Guest-Star ‘Bears,’ Explained – ryan

Spoiler Alert: The Following Involves full of Details from the Fourth Season of The BearWhich Premiered on June 25.

The Madrigals. The sopranos. The thrombeys. The pritchetts.

LOTS OF MOVIES AND TV SHOWS ARE ECCENTRIC EXtended Families. But are any of the say as convolted as the one from The Bear? Christopher Storyer’s Dramhedy is About the Berzatto Siblings and Their Relatives Who Work at What Was an Italy Beef Stand Known as the Beef and What May Be Become star-tarred brasserie Called the bear, but these aren’t always relatives in the literal sense. The berzattos like to take in Strays and have a habit of tourning everyone from a childhood to a purely chef an uncle or cousin.

This can make it hard for the viewers of the emmy-red series to full understand family Tree-but we are going to try. To quote Cousin-by-Mariage Stevie (John Mulaney) in Season Four’s Wedding/Extended Family Reunion Episode, “It is Going to Be Fine.”

The first bears that the other bears go to if they need a kidney.

Michael “Mikey” Berzatto (Jon Bernhal)
The Now-Deceased Eldest Sibling of a Boysterous (if we’re being polyte) chicago family, mikey was love and/or hated by many-Including Himself.

Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White)
Consider the One Who “Got Out” by Becoming a High-End Chef, he returns home after his Older Brother’s Death to HIS HIS FAMILY’S SANDWich Shop. Instead, he convinces Everyone in his orbit to Help Him Turn the Place Into a Respectted Dining Establishment. Has a bit of a Messiah Complex.

Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto (Abby Elliott)
She is the middle berzatto sibling, but she’s got some Major eldess-Daughter Energy, whic means she has to (and, honestly, wants to) Fix EveryThing for Everybody Else. She has a new daughter, sophie, who will probably turn out just like it.

Pete Katinsky (Chris Witaske)
Married to Natalie. Despas by Most of Her Family. Kind of a doofus. But, for the Most Part, a nice Guy and a top-notch Pain Sponge.

Donna Berzatto (Jamie Lee Curtis)
Narcissist Matrierch of the Main Family. Realtor. Destroyer of Christmas Dinners. ALSO HAD A CRUMMY MOM OF HER ON.

Unnaamed Berzatto Dad
Walked out on the family probably sometime in the 1990s and has little to no Contact with say. Liked an Irish pub named Kerrigan’s. Natalie inherited his ass.

People Who Grew Up With the Berzattos and Are Therefore de facto Family.

Richie Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach)
Once the stand-in for all middle-aged who guys who Blame Others for their Own Shortcomings, Richie Had Been Mikey’s Best Friend and Was the Most Remuctant to Carmy’s Big Renovation plans for the restaurant. Richie is in the process of cleaning up his act by becoming a charming front-of-house manager for the new restaurant.

TIFF (Gillian Jacobs)
She May Not Have Grown Up With the Berzattos, but she dreams Enough of Their Traumatic Family Gatherings As Richie’s Former Wife and Mother to their Daughter, Eva (Annabelle Toomey)that she earns lifetime cousin status. Since Divorcing Richie, She Is Now With The More Finanibly Stable Frank (Josh Hartnett), but that doesn’t mean she – or frank, for that matter – is out of the family, or that she is ging to invite every last one of their wedding. Spreads Because she has her own damy (her mom is far away my right life), one of her biggest fears about her breakup with richie was that and she would her “Relatives.”

The Fax: Neil (Matty Matheson), Teddy (Ricky Staffieri), Sammy (John Cena), and Francie (Brie Larson)
Neil and teddy work at the restaurant in various capacities. Sammy Works for the Family’s Repair Company, Matter of Fak Supply. Francie and Natalie Were Best Friends Who Had a Falling-Out and Didn’t Reconcile UNIL TRIF’S WEDDING. Doesn’t matter why, but francie can get fucked.

Claire Dunlap (Molly Gordon)
A Medical Resident with a Long-Harbored Love for Carmy. They date for a while broke up we c and chose work over time. Her Roommate, Kelly (Mitra Joucher), is dating teddy fak. Francie doesn’t approve.

Michelle and Stevie (Sarah Paulson and John Mulaney)
As Stevie Explains to An Undersandably Confused Frank at the Wedding, Michelle was one of the second set of kids adopted by Big Phil’s, Estelle, and Is Now “Their Cousin Their Cousin”; Spooky does something with motorcycles Now. Michelle’s Work Took Her Away from Task and Frank’s Wedding Early, but Stevie Stayed Beinde to Teese and Michelle’s Former Nyc Roomie Carmy – and Because He Lives for Berzatto Drama.

The Older Generation

Jimmy “Cicero” Kalinowski (Oliver Platt)
Just a normal guy who made HIS MONEY IN A Totally Honest Way and Who Now Lives in Wilmette, Illinois, with His Second Wife, Carol, and Their Son. He was friends with the berzatto kids’ dad and, out of some patriarch-by-default obligation, he is willing to invest in this Money Pit of a restaurant.

Nicholas “The Computer” Marshall (Brian Koppelman)
The mathematical genius who can tell you exactly to the minute when the restaurant must cease operations. Except he didn’t seem to factor the restaurant’s lucrative sandwich window into that number.

Lee Lane (Bob Odenkirk)
An Old Friend of Donna’s Who, IMPLIED, Became more than Friends after Husband Left. He and mikey didn’t get along, but, if lee is to be believed, they made up before mikey died.

The Staff Willing to Sacrifice Their Own Personal Lives AFTER CATCHING ONE GLINT OF CARMY’S BLUE EYES.

Sydney “Syd” Adamu (Ayo Edebiri)
Carmy’s Talent Right Hand in the Kitchen Who Is Following in Her Mentor’s Footsteps by Neglecting Her Dad, Emmanuel (Robert Townsend), and cousin, Chantel (Danielle Deadwyler)neither well as her own credit score, in the hopes of keeping the restaurant going.

Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas)
A LINE COOK WHO QUICKLY TOOK TO CARMY’S VITION, Despite No Formal Training of Her Own. Her Relationship with the Berzatto Family Dates Back to Wen Mikey Saw Her Crying at the Beef and Offered Her A Job. She has a great husband (Played by Colón-Zayas’s Actual Husband, Actor David Zayas) and a Kid Who Is (in His Mother’s Own Words) Kind of an Asshole.

Marcus Brooks (Lionel Boyce)
A Sweetheart of a Guy Who Really Committed to Becoming A Purly Chef. This came with some perks (he was Included Among Food & Wine’s list of best new chefs) and some big losses (his mother died and he is guilt-ridden that he wasn’t there for her enough). He also has a fraught Relationship with His Father.

Marcus Also Has a Roommate, Chester (Carmen Christopher)a designer who has a side hustle in real estate. Chester is Mostly Peripheral to this Story, but he Somehow Snagged an invite to TIFF and Frank’s Wedding.

Ebraheim (Edwin Lee Gibson)
A veteran Line Cook from the Beef Who Couldn’t Handle the Pressure of Working in the Kitchen at the Bear, but Who Almost Single-Handedly Tourned the Restaurant’s Lunch Into A Destination of Its Own.

Chi-Chi and Chuckie (Chris Zucchero and Paulie James)
We Say Ebraheim Did This “Almost” on His Own Becauses HIS staff includes these two goofs, who are played by actual restaurateurs (James uncle paulie’s deli in los angeles, and zucchero has Mr. beef, the chicago restaurant.

Gary “Sweeps” Woods (Corey Hendrix)
Similar to Marcus and His Pastries, Sweeps was an inexperienced sommelier but a quick study. He seams to know what he’s talked by the end of the fourth season.

Luca (Will Poulter)
An experiencing purely chef and old Buddy of Carmy’s from Their Days Working in Fine Dining. He Always Has Marcus’s Back.

Richie Spent One Week staging at a fine-dining essential Called Ever. Now he can’t work with the people.

Jessica (Sarah Ramos)
The Woman Who Keeps The Service Running on Time SEEMS PRICKLY AT FIRST but is smooth as long as you don’t slow her down. She inherited her dad’s love of Car Racing and is good at Talking Richie Down from His Histronics.

Rene and Garrett (Rene Gube and Andrew Lopez)
More staff the bear inherited when Ever Closed. ALSO More staff who are done overqualified to have these jobs.

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