It's the best food-oriented TV series since Julia Child's "The French Chef." And Christopher Storer and his other writers and directors present montages of food preparation that are beautiful, exotic and mesmerizing all at once.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2024

The Bear is still extraordinarily artful... But the show also appears less interested in telling a story than in offering an immersive trip for viewers into the recesses and faulty wiring of Carmy’s brain.

Full Review | Jul 15, 2024

In its third season, the series dilates the plot, letting mood and character simmer.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2024

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

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

“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

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

The Bear makes its own kind of music in Season 3. Episodes play like symphonies of images rather than conventional, plot-driven television.

Full Review | Jun 28, 2024

The Bear is a classic in the making.

Full Review | Jun 28, 2024

It’s beautiful, it’s harrowing, it’ll make you jump for joy and hide under a blanket. It’s the whole thing, the whole meal, with no substitutions permitted or required.

Full Review | Jun 28, 2024

Storer and his colleagues are wise to place a cast of this caliber in basically a season-long series of two-person plays.

Full Review | Jun 28, 2024

Jeremy Allen White and the best ensemble cast on TV go slower and cut deeper in a third season of tracking a Chicago restaurant family in the art of making art and emotional chaos. Dizzying, demanding, and utterly dazzling, it’s an indisputable classic.

Full Review | Jun 28, 2024

The Bear can be exhausting, especially when binged, but that’s testament to the fully realised characters and world creator and director Christopher Storer has created.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2024

Season 3 centers on the struggles surrounding loss and rebirth as well as the joy and pain of creating something new with ties from the past.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 27, 2024

The Bear remains among the very best shows on television, its own non-negotiables – a singular marriage of peace and chaos framed in superb camerawork and terrific performances – are all present and correct.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2024

To say The Bear does not [top itself] in its third season isn’t an indicator of failure, though, but a proposal that we realign our thinking about it to consider the newest episodes as part of a successful continuum.

Full Review | Jun 27, 2024

Season 3 feels very much like the show’s entree: After a stellar amuse bouche and a surprising appetizer, the main has hit the table. It’s a meat-and-potatoes course, with lots of necessary substance substituted for style.

Full Review | Jun 27, 2024

The Bear strikes a balance between pathos and humour, human complexity and cartoonish absurdity, cynicism and a sincere sense of affection for these characters, the city of Chicago and the culinary craft.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 27, 2024

On an episode-by-episode basis, the third season of The Bear is as good as anything the show has ever done. Possibly better?

Full Review | Jun 27, 2024

A pleasure as always if hardly perfect, this balance seems about right for a series that explores the gulf separating craftsmanship from genuine artistry, and whether perfection can bridge it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2024