Ebon Moss-Bachrach on ‘The Bear’
7/17/202647 min
As ‘The Bear’ wraps its final season, TV critic David Bianculli reflects on the show’s run. Also, we listen back to our interview with Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who plays Cousin Richie, the abrasive and ornery cook/maître d'. The show is known for kitchen chaos, but he says the set is calm. He spoke with 'Fresh Air' producer Ann Marie Baldonado.
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This is Fresh Air. I'm TV critic David Bianculli. The Bear, the FX series about people running a Chicago restaurant, has won 21 Emmy Awards so far and is nominated for eight more for its fourth season, including for guest actress Jamie Lee Curtis and guest actor Rob Reiner. The show's fifth and final season currently is running weekly on FX and streaming in its entirety on Hulu, and The Bear is ending with a bang, not a whimper. Today on Fresh Air, we'll listen back to an interview from last year with Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who's already won two Emmys for the role of Richie, the family friend who now co-runs the restaurant known as The Bear. And I'll start with an appreciation and overview of the TV series because The Bear has been a delectable treat from start to finish. Christopher Storer created and unveiled The Bear in 2022, telling the story of a talented chef, Carmen Berzatto, who left home to train at a Michelin-starred restaurant. He returns to Chicago after the suicide of his brother Mikey, who had run a small sandwich shop. Carm, played by Jeremy Allen White from Showtime's Shameless, decides to help his family by taking