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

Archived · Hulu

8.5168 eps

S05

DramaComedyFood

ON AIR: JUN 25Season 5Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

The Bear runs on the specific pressure of a professional kitchen crossed with a family business, where the hierarchy of fine dining crashes into the informal, stubborn rhythms of a Chicago sandwich shop. Episodes can feel like controlled detonations, frantic and loud, then suddenly still, with grief arriving not in speeches but in a burned order or a slammed cooler door.

Dark comedy here comes from exhaustion and pride rather than jokes; people are funny because they are desperately performing competence while barely holding together. The humor never softens the drama, it sharpens it, so a moment of absurdity and a moment of real pain can occupy the same breath.

Best for

tight kitchen chaos, workplace rivalry and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Comedy

Commitment

Season 5 · 8 episodes

Where

Hulu

Official Premise

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

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Strongest Match

The Family Man keeps the same pressure-cooker energy as The Bear, where people snap in cramped spaces and every day job turns into a test of control. One minute you get middle-class family friction and workplace absurdity, the next you are hit with fast, dangerous missions that force him to juggle duty and home, darker and more action-heavy.

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Why this pick

Beef delivers the same dark-comedy escalation you feel in The Bear, where small humiliations turn into nonstop retaliation and everyone around them pays the price. The show leans into tense, messy confrontations and spiraling obsession, with jokes landing right beside real emotional damage, stranger and more chaotic than the restaurant grind.

Industry

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Why this pick

Industry scratches the same workplace itch as The Bear, with characters trapped in relentless schedules where ambition, exhaustion, and humiliation collide. The scenes stay tight on office tension and brutal career pressure, watching people absorb setbacks and keep performing, colder and more corporate than the warm, family-run chaos of The Bear.

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