We may never be able to know how hard it is to be your own man when your dad is Jabba the Hutt, but over the course of four seasons of Christopher Storer’s culinary FX comedy-drama The Bear, we have learned a thing or two about how hard it is to be Jeremy Allen White’s Chicagoan chef Carmy Berzatto. And now, following last month’s surprise one-off Ebon Moss-Bachrach/Jon Bernthal joint ‘Gary’, The Bear’s fifth and final season is nigh, promising an emotional — and typically intense — final service for Carmy, Sydney, Richie, and co. Prepare for floods (both figuratively and literally), and tuck into the trailer for The Bear Season 5 below;
Anybody else’s hay fever really start playing up watching that trailer? No? Just us, then. But we did tell you there’d be floods, didn’t we? Yes, along with a particularly dramatic ‘Love Reign O’er Me’ backing track, numerous shots of our aproned heroes looking particularly stressed, emotional ‘big goodbye’ vibes speeches from Carmy and Richie, and the general sense of a sure-to-be-overwhelming ending, there is a literal storm coming in The Bear Season 5. And after that Season 4 finale, a waterlogged kitchen and a terribly timed delivery cut off is really the last thing everybody’s favourite sandwich-shop-turned-fancy-restaurant needs. Yikes!
The official synopsis for The Bear‘s final season — which also stars Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Matty Matheson, Oliver Platt, Will Poulter, and Jamie Lee Curtis — reads: “The fifth and final season of FX’s The Bear picks up the morning after Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri), Richard “Richie” Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto (Abby Elliott) discover that Chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) has quit the food industry, leaving the restaurant to them. With no money, the threat of a sale and a torrential storm in their way, the new partners must band together with the rest of the team to achieve one last service, hoping they’ll finally earn a Michelin star. Ultimately, they learn that what makes a restaurant “perfect” might not be the food, but the people.”
Will Richie, Sugar, and Sydney be able to wether the storm — and indeed wether the actual storm — to bring The Bear its Michelin star at long last and save their restaurant? Will Carmy finally find inner peace and be able to be his own man? And will we be crying like babies by the time credits roll? We know the answer to at least one of those questions already, but we’ll find out the rest when The Bear serves up its final season on 25 June. All together now… HANDS!
