How many episodes are in The Bear?

The Bear has 8 episodes in this listed season.

When does The Bear premiere?

The Bear premieres on 2026-06-25.

Is The Bear a new series?

The Bear is a returning series (Season 5).

The Bear(2022)

Also known as The Bear: King of the Kitchen • Gary

Upcoming · Hulu

8.5

TV-MA8 eps

S05

DramaComedyFood

A young chef from the fine dining world returns to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop.

Feels like

tight kitchen chaosworkplace rivalryfamily conflictdark comedy exhaustion

ON AIR: JUN 25Season 5

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Beef

Netflix • Apr 16 • 2023

ComedyDrama

Road rage ensues after a parking-lot incident, resulting in a bitter feud between the two antagonists. The vendetta between them and the lengths they'll go to in order to wreak revenge on each other spirals out of control, jeopardizing everything and everyone in their lives.

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Strongest Match

Beef keeps The Bear’s dark-comedy pressure, where one small insult turns into a relentless spiral of retaliation and exhaustion. The petty feud escalates through tense, close-quarters confrontations and collateral damage to everyone around them, but it’s more about mutual self-destruction than kitchen-family chaos.

Shrinking

Apple TV • Jan 28 • 2023

DramaComedy

A grieving therapist starts to tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge changes to people's lives - including his own.

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Why This Pick

Shrinking matches The Bear’s workplace-family comedy-drama, where people try to stay professional while grief and stress leak out sideways. The therapist’s blunt honesty collides with office restraint and friendship routines, creating awkward, funny blowups that land hard, with more warmth and less constant danger than The Bear.

Industry

HBO • Jan 11 • 2020

Drama

Young bankers and traders make their way in the financial world in the aftermath of the 2008 collapse.

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Why This Pick

Industry delivers The Bear’s relentless co-worker tension, with ambition and humiliation playing out in tight scenes where nobody can fully step away. The banking rivalry keeps the pressure constant, and the characters absorb damage while still pushing forward, making it colder and more solitary than The Bear’s restaurant-family closeness.

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