"Replicants" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the American comedy-drama television series The Bear. It is the 33rd overall episode of the series and was directed by series creator Christopher Storer. It was released on Hulu on June 25, 2025, along with the rest of the season.
Carmy attends an Al-Anon meeting and is moved by another member's vivid story of her brother's addiction. Sydney receives an updated partnership agreement from Carmy. Marcus sells his late mother's house with his roommate Chester's help. Carmy hires Luca as a stage to help Marcus. Tina talks to Carmy about his current struggle with reducing ingredients and advises him to slow down the pace of the menu. Carmy reveals to Sydney that he has decided on a set menu, admitting that his insistence on changing the menu every day was selfish and detrimental to the restaurant. Natalie brings baby Sophie to the restaurant. Sydney receives a call from the hospital saying her father has suffered a heart attack.
Production
Kate Berlant guest stars as Georgie, a participant in Carmy's Al-Anon group who shares about an alocasiahouseplant and/or living with her brother's addiction.[1] Berlant's story mirrors the struggles of more familiar characters as they confront "the complicated relationships they have with those who are closest to them: the broken trust, the bitterness, and the self-destructiveness that festers owed to those things."[1]
Carmy toured Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio house museum in Oak Park, Illinois.[2] The scenes were filmed over the course of one morning in early 2025.[2] The historical site's digital communications manager, Christine Trevino, conducted the onscreen tour, pointing out and explaining key details of the building design and history to Jeremy Allen White and The Bear crew.[2]
The title refers to a type of semi-sentient naturalistic cyborg called a replicant that was introduced into popular culture by Blade Runner.[3] Richie has a long-standing interest in science fiction generally and the works of Philip K. Dick specifically.[4] In season three Richie called Carmy a "baby replicant who's not self-actualized."[5]
The Daily Beast called Berlant's four-minute monologue a "highlight of the season."[1]
Richie's line "Who wants to melt some provolone on a fuckin' baby right now?" was deemed especially memorable by The A.V. Club.[7] Vulture felt that the episode simultaneously highlighted that although Richie is hilarious he also nurses an ongoing bitterness: "...Richie doesn't know how to have an adult conversation with a male he's related(ish) to. He seems to only know how to throw syllabic grenades, dropping lines about Carmy's supposed fear of refrigerators..."[8]
The pairing of Rob Reiner and Edwin Lee Gibson was called a "comedy dream team."[7]
↑ Kerman, Judith, ed. (1997). Retrofitting Blade Runner: issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's "Do androids dream of electric sheep"?. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press. ISBN978-0-87972-510-5.
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