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Season 4 – The Bear

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A young chef from the fine dining world comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop after a heartbreaking death in his family. A world away from what he's used to, Carmy must balance the soul-crushing realities of small business ownership, his strong-willed and recalcitrant kitchen staff and his strained familial relationships, all while grappling with the impact of his brother's suicide. As Carmy fights to transform both the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges kitchen crew that ultimately reveals itself as his chosen family.
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The Bear — Season 4

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After simmering for too long, The Bear's fourth season finally turns the heat back up with a renewed sense of urgency, serving a rich meal despite tiresome wait times between courses.

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Phillip Maciak The New Republic While there’s still plenty of self-indulgence, the show has pared itself down, trying to focus on what works. What that means, though, is that The Bear focuses on what has worked. This fourth season is a real set of classic covers. Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Rebecca Tucker Globe and Mail The Bear’s evolution suggests a creative team that has simply lost its spark. And it’s a shame, really – we used to have something truly special. Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio This is the season that these characters really needed. And there's something really beautiful in giving them that. Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Denise Zubizarreta LatinaMedia.Co Season 4 hits different. The tension is gone, like someone left the back door open and all the heat escaped. Rated: D Jul 29, 2025 Full Review Victor Pineyro Seventh Art Studio Why label The Bear a comedy? After 4 seasons, the comedic tension has turned into pure drama, but it's also an ode to precision editing telling human stories without grandure, millennial collisions with reality and vulnerability. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 9/10 Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Diana Keng Geek Girl Authority The Bear has never been a show to advertise every ingredient it throws in. It waits to see what comes out in the final tasting. Season 4 provided a mature flavor, layered with understanding, and with a lingering sensation of relief. Jul 20, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jenaro V Tuvo un buen arranque y prometía lo que la temporada anterior no cumplió pero se fue perdiendo en las reiteradas y caóticas dinámicas familiares que se sienten cada vez más forzadas, me parece absurdo que en la 4ta temporada y todavía estos personajes no sepan comunicarse y que todo sea un caos para generar una tensión en situaciones que no lo ameritan, la temporada pasada el parto de Natalie y en esta la boda de Tiff, que es más de lo mismo. Lo que me engancho de esta serie era toda la locura que ocurría en la cocina como te sumergía en ese caos que se disfrutaba, pero ahora se aleja cada vez más de la cocida y cada vez más me esta perdiendo. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/18/25 Full Review Jacobinia B Definitely, lacks bite but it takes risks with this seaon and takes a more emotional grounded approach towards the overall narrative , and characters. It fixes some pacing issues from previous season and is able to bring some incrediblly powerful from it's main ensemble/ cast. I can not wait for season 5. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/18/25 Full Review Morten Bo K The Bear Season 4 loses its sizzle, tangled in repetitive guilt and self-indulgent introspection. Carmy’s brooding and Sydney’s indecision drag, while the ensemble is underused. Stunning visuals and Ayo Edebiri’s standout performance can’t save a scattered narrative that sidelines the restaurant’s stakes. A disappointing detour from the show’s chaotic brilliance. The whole last scenes...wtf. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/17/25 Full Review Klara K Season 4 of The Bear left me so disappointed. What was once a masterclass in tension, artistry, and storytelling has collapsed into a muddled, shallow mess. The brilliance of earlier episodes like Fishes and Forks will surely be studied in film schools one day, provided we all agree to forget how the series ended. This finale deserves comparison to Game of Thrones’ infamous collapse: actors leaning into overwrought “film class crying” to collect Emmys in the “comedy” category before bolting for bigger gigs. The show scatters a million character snippets under a very large table but offers no satisfying payoffs. Carm and The Bear itself get pushed further and further off-screen. Story arcs either fizzle or degrade into nothing (Richie, I’m looking at you). The most frustrating arc is Sydney. We’re told she’s a miracle chef, but Ayo Edebiri never once sold the illusion of a professional kitchen presence. Her “ehm, yeah, nah” delivery, sprinkling cheese on pasta in under three minutes, is somehow meant to signal Michelin-star brilliance. Instead, her Hamburger Helper demo will probably traumatize that child for life. Meanwhile, Tina’s endless loop of cooking the basic mom pasta for regular intervals all season was a baffling mistreatment of her story. And Carm, after finally calming down, quits the restaurant… because it’s working and making money? It’s sloppy, anticlimactic, and utterly unworthy of the groundwork laid in Seasons 1 and 2. I sincerely hope they do not make another season. Some stories deserve to end before they self-destruct, and The Bear should have bowed out at its peak. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/16/25 Full Review Raoul D what was that? 10 episodes of nothing, and then the final episode is literally just them standing outside the back of the restaurant crying and screaming for 30 minutes. oh and whining, lots of shrill whining. they better come back next season i thought this show would be way better, it started so well, so dissapointing. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/16/25 Full Review Orit D I find it too slow and kind of tired. Having read about Jeremy Allen White's substance abuse, violence and other things about him, could be influencing my opinion. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/14/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Jun 25, 2025 Groundhogs Today looks like yesterday. Details Episode 2 Aired Jun 25, 2025 Soubise Gears start to turn. Details Episode 3 Aired Jun 25, 2025 Scallop Opportunity. Details Episode 4 Aired Jun 25, 2025 Worms Decisions. Details Episode 5 Aired Jun 25, 2025 Replicants The team resets. Details Episode 6 Aired Jun 25, 2025 Sophie Sophie's here. Details Episode 7 Aired Jun 25, 2025 Bears The wedding. Details Episode 8 Aired Jun 25, 2025 Green Everyone keeps going. Details Episode 9 Aired Jun 25, 2025 Tonnato Carmy takes a ride. Details Episode 10 Aired Jun 25, 2025 Goodbye Time waits for no one. Details
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Season Info

Director
Christopher Storer, Janicza Bravo, Duccio Fabbri
Creator
Christopher Storer
Executive Producer
Christopher Storer, Joanna Calo, Nate Matteson, Hiro Murai, Josh Senior
Screenwriter
Christopher Storer, Joanna Calo, Rene Gube, Karen Joseph Adcock, Catherine Schetina, Lionel Boyce, Ayo Edebiri
Network
Hulu
Rating
TV-MA
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date
Jun 25, 2025