…over ten absurdly short, incredibly padded episodes, doesn’t answer any of the ongoing key questions, issues that should have been resolved within the first hour of the restart. Instead, there’s endless tap-dancing, time-wasting and filler sans killer…

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 13, 2024

Christopher Storer’s guidance is superb, technically strong in every detail.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2024

Carmy’s pursuit for perfection is ruining The Bear, both the restaurant and the show.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2024

Not only does The Bear Season 3 get it right, but Storer makes audiences care through the carnage. It comes from somewhere real, feels dramatically organic, and deals in human extremes. The only thing is this is no comedy.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2024

This is a very intense 3rd season and we’re hoping for more texture and a variety of emotions, including humor, will be included next year. Even so, just like on Carmy’s list, there’s another important non-negotiable. The whole series is a must to watch.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2024

The new season, like its Michelin-hungry protagonist, has lost sight of what made it great.

Full Review | Jul 8, 2024

The prequel to John Krasisnki's franchise gets more urgent, relatable, and equally thrilling.

Full Review | Jul 8, 2024

This is a show that is at once beautiful, intriguing and soulful, yet also feels too much like homework.

Full Review | Jul 8, 2024

The best of the season comes in pieces, usually between the repetitive glut of flashbacks that begin to border on tedious. Without a defined throughline running along the season, the show’s quality gets dragged down by its lack of cohesiveness.

Full Review | Jul 8, 2024

“Ice Chips” is a deviation from this trend. The scars and trauma that propel it are largely the emotional kind. It traffics in mundanity, presenting labor as simultaneously overwhelming and normal, dramatic and familiar.

Full Review | Jul 5, 2024

Whereas Storer has been fantastic at letting the plot run through character development, he's lost in a disconnect here. Those aspects are operating individually in a way that shows how superior the latter is to the former.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 5, 2024

The Bear does deserve the three Michelin stars most critics and viewers are giving it. Once you’ve got past the chaos and initial incomprehensibility, it feels like hanging with old friends.

Full Review | Jul 5, 2024

Ayo Edebiri directs the best episode of the best show on air right now.

Full Review | Jul 4, 2024

The Bear Season 3 looks great, but it’s hollow outside of the premiere. More than the previous two seasons, it feels like a setup rather than its own story, too eager to look ahead rather than explore the characters and their motivations.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jul 3, 2024

Variants and evolutions aside, The Bear remains an essay on pain, loss and mourning... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2024

By now you’ll have decided if you like the show, and I love it, greedily gobbling down every episode as if it were a sonnet on a plate. Pop on your napkin (cloth, paper, doesn’t matter) and enjoy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 1, 2024

It remains one of TV’s best shows in Season 3, teeming with superb performances and sharply observed moments of humanity. But once I watched all 10 episodes, I was left wanting more, too.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2024

Sometimes, this big, creative swing for the fences sings. Other times, it stumbles. As a whole, though, this third season isn’t quite as strong as its predecessors.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 1, 2024

As close to perfection as a third season of a series can be.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2024

In many ways, The Bear’s latest season is the same circus of agita and the beauty of human connection it has always been.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2024