‘The Bear’: Why Sydney & Richie’s Friendship Is the Show’s Most Satisfying Arc

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Bear Season 4.]

The Bear‘s fourth season is serving up some seriously tasty plotlines, but none so much as the evolution of Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) and Richie’s (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) dynamic.

The pair has come a long way from where they started, which was pretty much at each other’s throats when viewers first met them in Season 1. And now, for fans who have finished Season 4, they have seen Sydney request that Richie be added to the restaurant agreement paperwork, making him part-owner alongside Syd and Natalie (Abby Elliott), as Carmy plans to step back from his head chef duties.