Looks like FX can handle the heat and are staying in the kitchen – The Bear has been greenlit for a third season. By all accounts it was an easy choice. The breakout Hulu series, created by Christopher Storer, was initially intended for a limited run. But that was before the internet decided to test how far it could stretch the phrase "yes chef" as a meme.
Now that the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are officially over, it's looking like season three's production is already underway. White himself said in a recent interview that several episode scripts had already been written (though he hadn't personally read them just yet), and that "...in January I’m going to spend a fair amount of time getting together with some chefs. And I know that I’m going to start putting together [The Bear's] menu with different chefs and cooking and just trying to get prepared to do more of that stuff on camera.”
Below, we're bringing you everything we know so far about the forthcoming season of The Bear.
When is The Bear season three being released?
All episodes of the third season of The Bear will premiere in June, 2024 according to FX chairman John Landgraf.
In the meantime, can someone please work out a way that we can watch it in Australia at the same time as the US? That month-long wait killed me last time.
What will season 3 focus on?
Where the first season of The Bear depicted Jeremy Allen White's Carmy and Ayo Edebiri's Sydney on a mission to save their beloved Chicago sandwich shop from going to seed, the second season focused on transforming The Beef, and its surviving staff, into an institution worthy of a Michelin star.
We leave the characters at a make-or-break moment. They've managed to pull off the soft opening of The Bear by the skin of their teeth – even if Carmy got locked in the walk-in fridge. Natalie's about to pop, with a new baby Berzatto on the way. Communication between Carmy and his team has eroded, and the chef has sabotaged his romance with Claire, played by Molly Gordon.
White said in a recent interview that "for the second season, so much of it was about putting the restaurant together, so there wasn’t much cooking. But now, in the third season, I think we’re going to go back to that functioning kitchen atmosphere that we had in the first."
So while it's not super yet clear what route season three will take plot-wise, we're enjoying the intimacy of spending an episode with each of the ensemble cast members. Which leads us on to the subject of returning characters.
Who is involved?
As production is yet to begin, we don't have a clear understanding on who will star in the third season. There are some safe bets however, including Allen White, Edebiri, Matty Matheson – who doubles as executive producer, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, L-Boy, Liza Colón-Zayas, Molly Gordon and Abby Elliott.
Given the success of the series, we're certain season three will be crammed with further high-profile cameos, as we saw with the inclusion of Olivia Colman, Will Poulter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sarah Paulson, and Bob Odenkirk. It seems like every actor once a piece of the pie. Our casting requests? Jeremy Strong, Paris Hilton, maybe Edebiri's bestie, Rachel Sennott?
