The “Sure, Chef!” memes and nationwide obsession with blue aprons are nonetheless going robust, which signifies that we’re not the one ones anxiously awaiting season three of The Bear. FX and Hulu’s breakout hit collection, a robust contender for a lot of awards on the Emmys in January, has been confirmed to return for a 3rd season in 2024—however with SAG-AFTRA nonetheless on strike and the writers solely just lately again to work, it’s onerous to know precisely what meaning. Right here’s all the things we do know for now.
When will The Bear season three truly premiere?
Subsequent 12 months is one of the best we will do, sadly. On November 6, FX’s Hulu despatched a press launch saying that the collection, created by Christopher Storer, had been renewed for a 3rd season premiering in 2024. “The Bear, which wowed audiences in its first season solely to realize even higher heights in season two, has change into a cultural phenomenon,” stated Nick Grad, the president of FX Leisure, within the accompanying press launch. “We and our companions at Hulu be part of followers in trying ahead to the subsequent chapter within the story of The Bear.”
The place will we have the ability to watch season three of The Bear?
In america it’ll proceed to air on Hulu, whereas it’s on Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in every single place else. The division between Disney and Hulu might diminish if not disappear fully in coming years. Disney introduced on November 1 that it’s going to take full management of Hulu and purchase out Comcast’s 33% stake. Disney had already experimented with placing some programming on each Hulu and Disney+, and the upcoming Marvel collection Echo will premiere on each platforms. The Bear might very nicely do the identical by the point season three premieres.
Who might be in The Bear season three?
As a office dramedy that depends closely on its ensemble, The Bear isn’t more likely to be the form of present that jettisons characters with out warning. Within the season three press launch, Grad particularly singled out stars Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, so if for some purpose you had been apprehensive, they’ll undoubtedly be again. However we discover it onerous to think about the present The Bear or the restaurant The Bear pushing ahead with out Abby Elliott’s Natalie, Lionel Boyce’s Marcus, Liza Colón-Zayas’s Tina, Edwin Lee Gibson’s Ebraheim, or Matty Matheson’s Fak. Then there’s Oliver Platt as Uncle Jimmy, who earned an Emmy nomination alongside White, Edebiri, and Moss-Bachrach for the present’s first season, and can virtually actually do the identical for the second. Jon Bernthal was additionally Emmy-nominated for the primary season, and obtained a good greater highlight within the season two flashback episode “Fishes,” however it’s onerous to foretell what number of Mikey flashbacks a 3rd season might need in retailer. They’d be silly to not deliver him again in any respect, in our humble opinion.
And don’t overlook that given the caliber of visitor stars in season two, actually anybody might present up as a brand new character. They’ve already introduced in a number of Oscar winners—possibly Nobel laureates are subsequent?
What is going to occur in The Bear season three?
In contrast to the primary season, which constructed to Carmy’s determination to reopen a brand new restaurant referred to as The Bear, the tip of season two was deliciously open-ended. The Bear’s friends-and-family evening was a hit however nonetheless ended with Carmy getting locked within the walk-in fridge and breaking apart with Claire (Molly Gordon). Natalie’s child remains to be on the best way, Carmy and Natalie’s mother Donna (Jamie Lee Curtis) stays a wild card, and although everybody within the kitchen put aside their variations for the sake of opening evening, the subsequent blowup is inevitably across the nook.
What in regards to the strike?
Nice query! The WGA strike has been resolved, which suggests the writers of The Bear have virtually actually gotten again to work. However the SAG-AFTRA strike remained in impact when FX’s Hulu despatched out the season three press launch, which exhibits some exceptional optimism on their finish. Only a few days earlier HBO offered its 2024 slate to the media with plenty of notable absences, together with Euphoria and The White Lotus, which have been delayed by the strike. Many, many Hollywood productions should gear up shortly as soon as the strike is resolved, and actor schedules—tough underneath one of the best of circumstances—will get packed very quick. But when the community is prioritizing The Bear season three, maybe the solid’s representatives are able to do the identical.
The place can I watch the solid of The Bear whereas I wait?
Effectively, once more, plenty of them have been on strike for months, which makes the pickings a bit of slimmer than we’d like. However White is about to have his largest movie position but in Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw, a few Texas wrestling household, which opens on December 22. He stars reverse Zac Efron and Harris Dickinson in a battle of the biceps that have to be seen to be believed. Edebiri had a starring position within the raunchy summer season comedy Bottoms, and in addition has a task within the upcoming indie The Candy East, set for launch in December. She continues to lend her voice to a variety of animated tasks, together with Netflix’s Massive Mouth, which simply returned for its seventh season, and the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, through which she performs a delightfully awkward teenage April O’Neil. Moss-Bachrach was additionally busy this summer season, with a supporting position within the Jennifer Lawrence–led intercourse comedy No Laborious Emotions, which is now on Netflix.
Wherever else?
Offered the SAG-AFTRA strike does finish by January, the complete solid of The Bear needs to be dolled up of their best for the Emmy Awards, which had been delayed by the strike from their typical September date to January 15. It’s a weird quirk of timing that they’ll be up for awards for the first season, although the second season aired months in the past, however that shouldn’t make it any much less satisfying if Carmy and firm handle to take dwelling some {hardware}.
