'The Bear' Season 4 Trailer: We Don't Talk About Oliver Platt Enough

I love The Bear, but as the series embarks on its fourth season, I’m starting to believe these poor characters will never know peace until the restaurant finally shutters. Food is important! Employment is important! But these poor bastards are going to die from the stress and chaos of keeping that place running.

I guess that review from The Chicago Tribune at the end of season three did not set The Bear up for long-term success, because according to Uncle Jimmy in the fourth season trailer, the restaurant has about 60 days to turn things around or it will have to shutter. But hey! At least it appears that Sydney has decided to stick around.

No pressure. Except that The Bear thrives on pressure. It exists to deliver brilliant performances, heartfelt and occasionally satisfying moments, and to drive up our collective blood pressure.

Also, Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach receive a lot of praise for their work on The Bear—and all of it is deserved—but can we talk about how good Oliver Platt is here, and how good he has been over his entire career? Hell, that guy was the absolute best thing about 1993’s Three Musketeers, and here he is, 32 years later, still crushing it in a recurring but pivotal role. He has five Emmy noms and a Tony nom, and I just learned this morning that he’s been wasting away (and probably collecting decent paychecks) for the last decade on Chicago Med. Jeez. In a just world, Huff would’ve run for 10 seasons.

Here’s the fourth season trailer. Take your blood pressure medicine before you watch.

All ten episodes — and 10 episodes are never enough — will drop on June 25th. Also, big ups to The Bear for being the rare streaming series to produce four seasons in four years.