The Bear continues to be considered of the best series in recent years. Created by Chris Storer, The FX drama–comedy, available to stream on Hulu, stars Jeremy Allen White as Carmy, a high-end New York chef who came back to his home in Chicago to manage his dead brother’s sandwich restaurant.
Season 2 mostly focused on the restaurant’s renovation, as well as expanding some of the life of the characters outside of work. Of course, Ayo Edebiri as Sydney, Carmy’s sous-chef, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, as Richard “Cousin” Jerimovich, also returned with great storylines of their own.
After Carmy’s love life “interfered” (as he interprets it, anyway) with his work and the restaurant is finally open again, there are many possibilities for Season 3 to go to. And there have been recent updates for fans of the series, so here’s all you need to know.
Is there a release date yet for Season 3 The Bear?
Yes, The Bear will come back on June 27, when all the episodes of Season 3 drop on the platform. This will be the second time, after Season 2, that all the episodes will be available to stream at the same time. It was announced by Jeremy Allen White on his Instagram page, where he share a teaser of the upcoming installment.
Season 3 started filming in late February, and it has been reported that The Bear was already renewed for Season 4, which was being shot back-to-back. There’s also a possibility of another season.
Who will be in the cast for Season 3?
Apart from White and Edebiri, it’s expected that the whole main cast will return including:
- Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richard
- Lionel Boyce as Marcus
- Liza Colón-Zayas as Tina
- Edwin Lee Gibson as Ebraheim
- Matty Matheson as Fak
- Abby Elliott as Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto, Carmy and Michael’s younger sister.
Season 3 of The Bear plot: What fans can expect?
Carmy’s love life was one of the major storylines of Season 2, which, spoilers ahead, ended with him trapped in the refrigerator. Stress got the best of him, and he started talking with Tina (Colón-Zayas) about how his relationship with Claire (Molly Gordon) distracted him. Sadly, Claire listened and she left the restaurant in tears. And Allen White has opinions about what should happen next.
“As Jeremy, a reader of scripts and watcher of [the] show, I think she deserves an apology at the very least,” he told Deadline. “So I hope there’s some version of that when I read scripts again.” Back in June 2023, he also told Variety that he “assume he’ll (Carmy) be operating from this sort of loss.”
In December, he told the outlet that “For the second season, so much of it was about putting the restaurant together, so there wasn’t that 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.”
Season 3: Could Sydney and Carmy be in a relationship?
According to the actors, that isn’t part of the plan. Both White and Edebiri had said that they didn’t discuss that possibility. Meanwhile, Storer told Variety that they wanted to “make something that was about friendship and a partnership.”
However, fans aren’t convinced about it, especially after a scene in which Sydney and Carmy talk to each other under a table. White told Variety in June 2023 that “it’s such a beautiful scene. It is a scene about partnership, but not a romantic partner.”
Meanwhile, Edebiri told The Hollywood Reporter in August 2023 that fans theories of a romance are “frustrating” because “It’s really not our thought process when we’re making the show, and I understand it can be part of a show’s culture — but I don’t think they’re going to get what they want. I think it’s incredibly cool to have this dynamic onscreen that isn’t romantic, but that feels charged.”