Yes, Chef! One of the biggest dramedy hits of the ‘20s so far, FX’s “The Bear,” returns with its highly anticipated third season, streaming Sunday, June 27, on Hulu, with all 10 episodes of the fresh new season served up at once on premiere day. The titular restaurant reopens as a fine dining establishment this season, and Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White, “Shameless”), Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri, “Bottoms,” 2023) and Richie Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach, “NOS4A2”) are under a mountain of stress trying to make it all work.
Members of the main cast returning this season are Abby Elliott (“Odd Mom Out”) as co-owner of The Bear and Carmy’s sister, Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto; Lionel Boyce (“Hap and Leonard”) as pastry chef Marcus Brooks; Liza Colon-Zayas (“IF,” 2024) as line cook Tina Marrero; and Matty Matheson (“It’s Suppertime!”) as The Bear’s handyman, Neil Fak. Other recurring cast members in the series are Oliver Platt (“Chicago Med”) as Berzatto family friend and investor in The Bear, Jimmy “Cicero” Kalinowski; Edwin Lee Gibson (“Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”) as long-time line cook Ebraheim; and Molly Gordon (“Theater Camp,” 2023) as Carmy’s long-suffering girlfriend, Claire.
The heat is on for The Bear — formerly known as The Beef — to make its mark on Chicago’s culinary scene and start turning a profit, but last season’s finale left one very important member of the kitchen in the cold. Plagued by stress-induced panic attacks while the team prepared tirelessly for the grand opening, Carmy found himself locked in the walk-in fridge during the restaurant’s family and friends soft opening service. Trapped unintentionally in the frozen cell, Carmy faced everything that led him to leave the fridge door handle repair task unchecked on his to-do list.
The all-important fine dining kitchen education that the staff of The Beef gained before their restaurant became The Bear was put to use while Carmy was incapacitated. Richie, having spent some time working his way up from polishing forks to understanding floor management and elite customer service in one of the Windy City’s finest restaurants, stepped up and called out orders while Sydney got her hands dirty on the line. In five crucial minutes, the team pulled it off and service returned to its normal chaotic pace.
In the official trailer for the upcoming season of “The Bear,” it’s all about non-negotiables. Carmy butts heads against everyone else, it seems, in his pursuit of perfection and a new dream of a Michelin star. While he contends with how he blew up his relationship with Claire from the fridge, Carmy sends Sydney a legally binding partnership agreement. For the restaurant! Everyone ups their culinary skills to meet Carmy’s ever-increasing standards, and Cicero and Sugar have a spat over money.
No one from the cast and crew of “The Bear” is talking details about Season 3, but in an interview with Gold Derby, Platt commended the Emmy-winning writing of the series, saying, “You don’t often see writing this muscular and efficient.”
About the outstanding success of the series, Platt said, “The most remarkable thing about ‘The Bear’ is that it, for all intents and purposes, came out of nowhere. Obviously, FX has really talented programmers. But honestly, if you asked them, I think they’d tell you they were shocked. I know they loved it, but there was no guarantee other people would.”
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