As idioms go, "If you can't handle the heat, then get out of the kitchen" is, to be sure, a classic. But for Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney (Aye Edebiri), Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and the team at The Bear, it's also an impossibility: the heat is constant, and the kitchen is their life — or near enough. Still, after The Bear Season 3's intense, cliffhanger finale, the newly dropped first trailer for Season 4 of FX and Disney+'s Emmy winning culinary drama sees our favourite under-fire chefs looking for pockets of calm (or should that be Carmy?), even while the clock remains quite literally ticking on their restaurant's future. Check it out below;
"People go to restaurants to be taken care of," says Allen White's Carmy at the start of this tone-setting new trailer for Season 4, "to relax, to not have to think about anything else for a minute." And while the dangling threads from last season's finale — that review from The Chicago Tribune, Sydney's uncertain future, the "chaos and turmoil" of working in the hospitality sector and dealing with dysfunctional families both biological and professional — all lend a fizz of tension to proceedings here, the focus is definitely on Carmy trying to remember why he loves what he does, seeking reconciliation in his restaurant and even approaching a meeting with his mother (Jamie Lee Curtis). Whether that sense of inner peace is actually attainable amid the smashed crockery and raised voices of Chicago's cuisine scene remains to be seen, but it's certainly the aim.
And here's the official synopsis for the new series: "Season four of The Bear finds Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (White), Sydney Adamu (Edebiri) and Richard “Richie” Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) pushing forward, determined not only to survive, but also to take The Bear to the next level. With new challenges around every corner, the team must adapt, adjust and overcome. This season, the pursuit of excellence isn’t just about getting better — it’s about deciding what’s worth holding on to.”
Will Carmy achieve zen at last? Will The Bear beat the clock and stay in business? Will the show continue to win awards for comedy despite quite clearly being an out-and-out drama? We'll find out the answers to at least some of those questions when all 10 episodes of The Bear Season 4 drop on Disney+ on 25 June.