The Bear family tree season 4

Donna Berzatto is the mother of the family. She is first seen in Fishes, the Christmas episode of Season 2, and she is back in Ice Chips in Season 3, where Natalie calls her to the delivery room.^1,2 Her husband is never seen and never named. The /Film guide says that the series strongly implies he left the family early in Carmy’s life, and that he may be dead.¹

The Bear family tree season 4 chart therefore draws him with a broken line to Donna and no dates. The father is the largest gap in the tree, and the fourth season does not fill it.

Donna has three children. Michael, called Mikey, is the eldest. He ran the family sandwich shop, The Beef, and died by suicide at 43, before the first episode.¹ Natalie, whom Donna named Sugar, is the middle child, and Carmen, called Carmy, is the youngest.¹

Carmy comes home to Chicago to run the shop after Mikey dies, and in Season 2 he turns it into a fine dining restaurant called The Bear.² Natalie is married to Pete, who stays out of the restaurants.¹ She gives birth to their first child in Ice Chips.^1,2 The A.V. Club names the baby Sophie in its recap of the sixth episode of Season 4, which carries her name as its title, and Natalie will not let the Faks hold her.⁴

The Bear family tree season 4 chart sets the three children in a row under Donna and her husband, with Pete beside Natalie and Sophie under them. Mikey is drawn with the cross of a death, because he is dead in every season the chart follows. He is still on screen in flashbacks, most fully in Fishes and in the Season 3 episode Napkins.^1,2

Three men on the Bear family tree season 4 chart carry a family word that is not a family tie. Richard Jerimovich is cousin Richie, but the /Film guide says he is no blood relation of the Berzattos. He was close to Mikey.¹ The A.V. Club still writes of Carmy as his cousin in the wedding episode, so the sources use the word in two ways, and the chart follows the guide by drawing no line of blood.⁵

Jimmy Kalinowski, called Cicero and Uncle Jimmy, is not related by blood either. He lent Mikey 300,000 dollars and later offered Carmy a loan of 800,000 dollars.¹ In Season 4 his money is the pressure on the restaurant, and in the season finale Carmy gives his share to Jimmy, Sydney and Natalie.^2,3

Lee Lane, Uncle Lee, is neither kin nor in law. He was an old friend of Carmy’s father, he clashes with Mikey at the Christmas table in Fishes, and his tie to Donna is left unclear.¹ At the wedding in Season 4 he swears to Carmy that he and Donna are only friends, and he tells him that Mikey talked about his little brother all the time.⁵

The chart joins all three to the family with a dotted brown line named Called family. A reader can then see at once who belongs by blood, who by marriage and who by the family’s own choice of words.

Michelle Berzatto is the cousin of Carmy and, in the words of the /Film guide, the niece of Donna. In Fishes she urges Carmy to move to New York. Her partner Stevie is the outsider at that table.¹ The guide does not name the parent who links Michelle to Donna, so the chart writes cousin under her name and invents no one.

The Jerimoviches stand on the right of the Bear family tree season 4 chart. Tiffany is the former wife of Richie, and their daughter Eva is raised by both of them.¹ In the Season 4 episode Bears, Tiffany marries Frank. Frank worries about being a good stepfather, and Eva, whom the A.V. Club calls Evie, hides under a table to avoid the dance before she dances with him after all.⁵

The Faks are friends of the family since childhood. Francie Fak was the best friend of Natalie until a falling out, and at the wedding the two agree that they miss each other.⁵ Her brothers Neil and Teddy are drawn beside her. Sydney Adamu is the chef who becomes Carmy’s partner, and at the wedding Donna sees how close they are.⁵ Her father Emmanuel Adamu has a heart attack in Season 4.⁴ Claire, whom Carmy loves, is by then his former partner, and The A.V. Club counts her and Stevie as honorary Berzattos.^4,5

A square is a man and a circle is a woman. A line between a couple with a line down to the children is a marriage, a slash across that line is a separation or a divorce, and a cross marks a death. The red ring holds the Berzattos, the blue ring the Jerimoviches and the green ring the Faks. The letter P at the corner of a symbol marks the partners in the restaurant at the end of Season 4.

The coloured lines between people are the bonds the story turns on, and the words at each end say what each side feels at the season you choose. The dotted brown line is family by name only.

To change the Bear family tree season 4 chart or build one of your own, open it in the editor from this page or start from the story charts. The symbols are set out in the genogram symbols.