The Bear (2022)
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Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 23 June 2022 |
| Status | Ended, last episode 25 June 2026 |
| Genre | Drama, Comedy |
| Created by | Christopher Storer |
| Starring | Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Ayo Edebiri |
| Seasons | 5 seasons, 46 episodes |
| Episode length | about 31 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 24 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 8.2/10 |
Where to watch The Bear
The Bear is streaming on Disney+ ($15.99 a month) in the US. It is also on Hulu ($18.99 a month). At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 1 month of Disney+, or $15.99 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
Christopher Storer built a kitchen that sounds like a panic attack. The Bear is a drama-comedy where a high-end chef inherits a sandwich shop and tries to impose Michelin-star discipline on a crew that speaks in shouting matches. It runs 31 minutes per episode, which feels like an eternity when the heat is on. There are 5 seasons and 46 episodes in total, amounting to roughly 24 hours of watching people yell about logistics. The tension comes from the gap between Carmy’s refined past and the chaotic present. It is loud, fast, and surprisingly tender.
What the critics said
Critics didn't just like The Bear; they seemed to lean against the screen while reading. Rotten Tomatoes places the series at 93%, with an average score of 8.3 out of 10. Metacritic, using a weighted average, lands at 83 out of 100. That is a high bar, and the show clears it with the ease of someone who has done it before. The consensus is loud enough to hear from the next county.
How it did with audiences
The Bear skips the box office entirely, so the ledger here is audience opinion. On TMDB, users rate it 8.2 out of 10. That is a high score for a show about a kitchen that mostly smells like regret.
What came next for the cast
Jeremy Allen White moved from Shameless to The Iron Claw and Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Ebon Moss-Bachrach went from The Royal Tenenbaums and Marvel's The Punisher to No Hard Feelings and The Fantastic 4: First Steps. Ayo Edebiri stepped out of Dickinson into Bottoms and After the Hunt. The credits list these shifts, but they do not claim The Bear caused them. They just record what followed.
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Sources
- The Bear on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q112761982 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “The Bear (TV series)” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
- Where to watch and prices: Binge Boss, from TMDB watch-provider data (powered by JustWatch) and our own provider list
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