Spoilers for Season 4 of "The Bear" are ahead! If you are not caught up, you can stream the series with a Hulu subscription.
Before the new season of "The Bear" premiered on the 2025 TV schedule, I was thinking a lot about the episode “Ice Chips.” In that memorable Season 3 installment, we saw Abby Elliott’s Sugar and her mom, Donna (Jamie Lee Curtis), reconcile, and they began to repair their relationship. So, going into Season 4, I wanted the same thing for Carmy. Now, after watching that happen on screen, I’m reflecting back on Elliott’s dream for the Berzattos.
Now, before I watched all of "The Bear’s" fourth season, I had the chance to interview Abby Elliott. We talked a lot about her big episode from last season, the aforementioned “Ice Chips,” and how it changed Sugar’s life and relationship with her mom. I also asked if she could ever see that kind of healing in the cards for Carmy and their mother.
00:00I think that sugar has always hoped for that. And even since, you know, season one, episode one, she's to have you talk to mom? Can you, you know, can you do this? And, and while they both, you know, go back and forth with their mom, and it's, it's so complicated, I think that, you know, sugar is, is a fixer, and she desperately wants this family that she has never had.
00:29And she's kind of hopeless about it. And, you know, I think it's why she married someone like Pete, she wants that stability.
