Where can I stream The Bear?

The Bear streams on Hulu. It ran for 4 seasons (2022–present).

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The Bear

Q: Is The Bear worth watching?

The Bear has a Celluloid Score of 84%, averaged from critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, IMDb, and fan ratings. It comes recommended overall. Created by Christopher Storer.

Created by Christopher Storer · 2022–present

Quick Verdict

The Bear has a 84% Celluloid Score — our average across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, IMDb, and fan ratings. Recommended — recommended. Streaming on Hulu.

84%

Celluloid Score Recommended

Averaged from 5 sources

93%Critic Score

80%Audience

83Metascore

8.5IMDb /10

78%Fan Score

Seasons: 4 · 38 episodes
Network: Hulu
Cast: Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas

Is The Bear worth watching?

Yes — The Bear earns a 84% Celluloid Score. Recommended, created by Christopher Storer and streaming on Hulu.

Critics Consensus

A pressure-cooker of a series that turns restaurant work into raw, kinetic drama — anchored by career-best performances and some of the most formally daring episodes on television, even as later seasons divide on pacing.
Celluloid Critics Consensus

What is The Bear about?

A young fine-dining chef returns to Chicago to run his late brother's chaotic sandwich shop, wrestling with grief, debt and a volatile kitchen brigade as he tries to turn a failing joint into something worthy of his talent — and to keep a found family from tearing itself apart.

Critic Reviews

critic The Bear

The Bear Review: The Kitchen as Pressure Chamber, the Edit as Panic Attack

★★★★½ 4.5/5

The Bear turns a failing Chicago sandwich shop into a study of grief conducted at the speed of a dinner rush, its clattering montage and locked-off close-ups making anxiety itself the show's true subject.

A ferociously well-made drama that channels grief through craft — occasionally self-indulgent in later seasons, but at its best there is nothing sharper on television.