The Bear Timeline: All Flashbacks In Order & How Much Time Passes In Each Season

While The Bear only features a few flashbacks in each season of the series, these are vital to understanding the show’s overarching story, and they can make the timeline a little tricky to decipher. Alternately warm and cynical, The Bear is an acclaimed dramedy about a troubled chef’s attempts to make his late brother’s restaurant profitable. When The Bear season 1 begins, the unstable but highly acclaimed Carmy Berzatto leaves a job at an illustrious New York restaurant to take over his family’s restaurant in Chicago. The untimely death of Carmy’s brother, Michael, has left the restaurant in severe debt.