‘The Bear’ Drops New Trailer: Everything We Know So Far About Season 3

With just a month to go until the 10 episodes of The Bear season 3 hits Hulu, fans are getting a bit of a longer look at what’s in store with a hot new trailer.

FX released a full-length trailer for the highly anticipated season on Wednesday, which follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) and his team’s efforts to make their new restaurant, The Bear, a success as the crew tries to keep their new venture going amid Carmy’s increasingly exacting standards. “It’s a losing battle every single day in the restaurant business,” FX’s synopsis reads. “Carmy pushes himself harder than ever, and demands excellence from his crew, who do their best to match his intensity.”

Tensions mount between the crew and Carmy as he doles out a list of “non-negotiables” that Ayo Edebiri‘s Sydney and the rest of the team question the reality of day-to-day execution. And as different ideas of excellence clash, the ongoing fraught interpersonal dynamics of The Bear’s crew — in and out of the kitchen — bubbles over until it overflows. 

As the trailer shows Carmy throwing food into the garbage, a montage of spills, fights, and a literal fire to put out is seen. 

“This is a dysfunctional kitchen,” Sydney declared in a shorter teaser released earlier. “Show me a functional one,” Carmy and cousin Richard “Richie” Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) retort in unison. 

Abby Elliott, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Matty Matheson, Oliver Platt and Molly Gordon are all slated to reprise their roles.

While the specifics of the new season remain to be seen, fans can enjoy reports speculating that the actors have already filmed for a fourth season. 

In February, FX Chairman John Landgraf announced that the acclaimed series would return in June for a third installment and it’s now clear that they are putting as many eggs into the dramedy’s basket as they can by renewing it for a fourth season, reports indicate. 

In March, local outlets in Chicago reported that The Bear was filming additional episodes on top of season 3. Reel Chicago shared that production members have stated that the additional episodes are part of season 3, while others have stated the episodes are for season 4. Either way, the network is giving the award-winning series its full support as they continue to shoot in Chicago. 

It’s not surprising for fans who recently watched as the series swept the Emmy Awards for its first season, winning 10 of the 13 categories it was nominated in. The show also took home numerous Golden Globes, SAG Awards and other major trophies on the awards circuit. 

“We couldn’t be prouder or more excited [of the show],” Landgraf said in February at a Television Critics Association event while announcing the June premiere. The exact date for the new season has yet to be shared. 

As far as whether or not the show will once again drop all episodes of the new season at the same time — something that The Bear did for seasons 1 and 2 — the FX official said he and those at the helm have no plans to change things up on fans. 

“I have no doubt we’ll just keep doing it,” Landgraf said, joking that it may also be the favored release strategy for those who watch religiously as the show can be “a little anxiety-inducing.” 

He also could not share any potential guest stars or plotlines for the upcoming season and said that despite being at the very top of the network, he was just as surprised as the fans when he sat down to watch the Christmas episode in season 2, which featured appearances from Bob Odenkirk, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sarah Paulson, John Mulaney, and Gillian Jacobs. 

In November, the show was officially renewed for season 3 just hours after the SAG-AFTRA strike — which lasted 118 days and delayed production on several other FX shows — came to an end. 

“The Bear, which wowed audiences in its first season only to achieve even greater heights in season two, has become a cultural phenomenon,” said Nick Grad, President of FX Entertainment, in a press release at the time.

“We’re so proud to partner with Christopher Storer, Joanna Calo, Josh Senior, and the rest of the creative team, as well as the brilliant cast led by Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. What they and the crew have done is truly remarkable, and we and our partners at Hulu join fans in looking forward to the next chapter in the story of The Bear,” Grad continued. 

Around the same time as the show’s renewal, ET spoke with White,  and he gave an update on how he is preparing for season 3. 

“I haven’t read scripts yet, that’s the truth,” White shared with ET. “But, yeah, we will be going back [into production] in, like, late February, early March. I’m gonna get together with some chefs starting in January and start doing some prep.”

For White, that means emotional prep as the series heavily focuses on emotional storylines and “anxiety-inducing” situations as Landgraf said, including a season 2 cliffhanger that scratches the surface 

Fans of the show will remember that season 2 left off with Carmy trapped in the walk-in freezer at his restaurant and engaged in an argument with Richie (Moss-Bachrach) over letting Claire (Molly Gordon) get away. The argument closed out the episode which also saw the restaurant falling into shambles upon its reopening. 

The Bear season 3 begins streaming on Hulu on June 27.

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