The Bear (2022-2025)

‘The Bear’ Season 4 Finds a Better Blend for Its Ingredients This Time. Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri and the rest of the cast return for more family chaos, restaurant funding woes, but also more satisfying stories. It’s no secret that after a sleeper hit first season, a critically acclaimed, award-winning and much-watched second, culinary drama ‘The Bear’ went off the boil somewhat in its third.

The ingredients were the same –– great performances, visually stylish and one of the better collections of needle drops on TV –– but somehow the script and the pace let it down.