‘The Bear’ Episodes 4-6: The Show’s Back, but Is Enough Happening?

The Prestige TV Podcast

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Van and Charles dig into the second course of episodes (the middle three) in Season 4 of FX’s 'The Bear.’ 00:00 Intro 03:00 Recapping episodes 4-6 06:23 Syd’s impending decision 20:20 Falling back in love with the characters 22:32 A Rob Reiner tangent 26:24 The ‘binge model’ 31:24 Tina getting through to Carmy 34:58 What’s next? Email us! [email protected] Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of ‘The Prestige TV Podcast’ and so much more! Hosts: Charles Holmes and Van Lathan Jr. Producers: Kai Grady and Donnie Beacham Jr. Video supervision: Chris Thomas Additional Production Support: Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the prestige TV podcast where we might have seen good hair, but we refuse to be energetically musty.
0:21.2	I'm Charles Holmes.
0:22.3	He's Van Lathen.
0:23.2	Together we're known as the Midnight Boys.
0:24.6	Piboo!
0:25.1	And we're back to discuss season four of the bear.
0:29.7	Van, how are you doing?
0:30.9	I'm fantastic.
0:32.1	You don't want to discuss the bear today.
0:34.3	You really want to discuss the social network, too.
0:37.0	I don't think I understand.
0:39.3	Neither do I.
0:40.5	But people are excited.
0:42.0	Who is excited?
0:42.9	Nobody.
0:45.1	No one is excited.
0:45.8	Are you a Sorkin fan?
0:48.0	Yes.
0:49.2	Yeah.
0:50.1	Yeah.
0:51.2	Definitely.
0:51.8	I mean, I watched a few good men a couple of days ago. It's a fantastic movie. It's good. Did you watch the newsroom? No. Crazy show. I also didn't watch what people define as defining for Sorkin, which was the West Wing. I've never seen the West Wing. I've never seen it. But anyone who is a West Wing person says that it's one of the greatest shows ever made.
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