The Bear — Season 4 (2026) · directed by Christopher Storer

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Trailer

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Stills

6 production photos

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Info

11 facts

Country United States

Year 2026

World premiere June 26, 2026 (Hulu / Disney+)

Genre Drama·Comedy

Runtime 10 episodes, ~30-50min

Language English, occasional Spanish & Italian

Age rating TV-MA

Cinematography Andrew Wehde, Adam Newport-Berra

Editor Joanna Naugle

Producer Joanna Calo, Hiro Murai

Production FX Productions · Super Frog · FXP

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Cast & crew

12 cast

Jeremy Allen White Ebon Moss-Bachrach Ayo Edebiri Lionel Boyce Abby Elliott Liza Colón-Zayas Matty Matheson Edwin Lee Gibson Corey Hendrix Jose M. Cervantes Richard Esteras Oliver Platt

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Synopsis

plot & context

The Bear has its Michelin star. It also has a kitchen of people too tired to celebrate it.

Season 4 picks up nine months after the star arrives. The restaurant runs four nights a week, books out at midnight on release day, and the staff have settled into a rhythm that feels less like art and more like work. Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) has stopped sleeping. Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) is being courted by every restaurant group in the country. Cousin Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) is dating, badly. Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas) is running the line as confidently as anyone has ever run the line at The Bear, but a routine doctor's visit reveals something that reshapes her season.

Storer's writers' room has called Season 4 "the post-success season." There's less yelling. The kitchen still ruptures into chaos but the chaos has different colours — exhaustion, complacency, romantic entanglement, family pressure. The standout episode is "Berlin," in which Sydney attends a guest residency at Tim Raue's restaurant and faces what her own restaurant could become if she leaves.

The cooking is, as ever, real. The dialogue overlaps. The handheld cameras stay in the heat. And in the season's quietest moment, Carmy sits in the dining room at 2 a.m. eating a piece of bread and weeping for the first time on screen since Season 1.

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Episodes

10 in this season

E01

Star

Nine months after the Michelin announcement. The kitchen runs four nights a week and everyone is tired. Carmy hasn't slept properly since spring.

Jun 26, 2026

E02

Sous

Sydney is recruited by a Manhattan restaurant group. Tina takes the express line for an evening. Marcus debuts a dessert that splits the kitchen.

Jun 26, 2026

E03

Cousin

Richie goes on three dates in one week. None of them go well. Sugar visits with the baby.

Jul 3, 2026

E04

Saturday

A single Saturday service in real-time, opening to last cover. Two crises, three injuries, one quiet triumph in the prep kitchen.

Jul 10, 2026

E05

Tina

A bottle-episode focus on Tina. A doctor's appointment, a long phone call with her son, and a decision about the restaurant.

Jul 17, 2026

E06

Faks

The Fak brothers move into the apartment above The Bear. Carmy regrets giving them the keys. A plumbing emergency. A wedding subplot.

Jul 24, 2026

E07

Bread

Carmy eats a piece of bread at 2 a.m. and cries on screen for the first time since Season 1. The dialogue is minimal. The episode is twenty-eight minutes long.

Jul 31, 2026

E08

Berlin

Sydney attends a guest residency at Tim Raue's restaurant in Berlin. She faces what The Bear could become if she leaves. Forty-two minutes, almost no English.

Aug 7, 2026

E09

Family

Donna Berzatto returns to the dining room. The whole family in one room for the first time since Season 2's flashback episode.

Aug 14, 2026

E10

Yes Chef

Season finale. Sydney makes her decision. Carmy makes his. The kitchen opens for one more service. Season 5 confirmed for 2027.

Aug 21, 2026

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Press reception

5 reviews

A quieter Bear, a wiser Bear. Storer trusts the audience to sit with exhaustion and grief in the same scene.

Lorraine Ali · Los Angeles Times

Jeremy Allen White finally lets Carmy break. The crying scene at the end of episode seven is the year's rawest moment of television.

Daniel D'Addario · Variety

Ayo Edebiri's Berlin episode is the centerpiece. A whole career in 42 minutes.

Inkoo Kang · The New Yorker

Liza Colón-Zayas gets the storyline she's deserved since Season 1. She does not waste a second of it.

Daniel Fienberg · The Hollywood Reporter

The Bear post-success is a different kind of show. It is also, somehow, the same show.

Emily Nussbaum · The New Yorker

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Memorable lines

5 quotes

«The star is just a sticker. The work is the work.»

Carmy Berzatto

«You can't lead a kitchen you're scared of.»

Sydney Adamu

«Every dish I cook, I cook for somebody who didn't live to eat it.»

Tina Marrero

«I dated a woman from the suburbs for three weeks. She owned a juicer. I will never recover.»

Cousin Richie

«A restaurant is just a building until someone tells you a story over the food.»

Marcus

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Where to watch

1 options · CA

Stream with subscription

Hulu ↗

Streaming data from JustWatch · region: Canada · prices vary

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Technical notes

how to watch it right

Shot on Sony Venice + ARRI Alexa Mini LF; presented in Digital 4K; framed 2.00:1; mastered for Dolby Vision; mixed in 5.1 + Atmos on supported devices; best seen on 4K OLED u2014 kitchen browns and stainless steel benefit.

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The ledger

quick read

What works

Edebiri's Sydney gets the long-form spotlight she earned
The family-history episode is the season's high
Kitchen sequences still feel choreographed by someone who's been in one

What doesn't

Carmy's arc plateaus after S3's reset
Some supporting characters feel reduced to single notes

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Awards & nominations

2 entries

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Primetime Emmy Awards 2024 Outstanding Comedy · WON

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SAG Awards 2024 Ensemble Comedy · WON

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