The Bear is getting ready to serve its final meals.
The FX-produced series, which streams on Hulu, is coming to an end with its upcoming fifth season. The Emmy-winning show is currently filming in and around Chicago and is slated to debut later this year; past seasons have all premiered as binge releases in late June.
Jamie Lee Curtis, who has won an Emmy for her recurring role as Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and Natalie’s (Abby Elliott) mother, said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight Tuesday that the show was coming to a close: “It is the end of the show,” she said in response to speculation about a Feb. 17 Instagram post in which she referenced “completing the story” of The Bear. “Everybody knows it’s the end of the show. I’m not breaking any news to anybody. It’s the end of the show — they’ve said it from the beginning.”
FX declined comment.
Signs have long pointed to a finite run for The Bear. White has said in previous interviews that series creator Christopher Storer originally had a four-season story arc in mind for the show. Season four’s finale was titled “Goodbye” and saw Carmy decide to leave both his restaurant and the culinary business altogether. And, not for nothing, a show that has interwoven grief and trauma so closely with its workplace storylines can’t keep airing out those traumas forever.
FX ordered a fifth season of The Bear in July 2025, about a week after season four premiered.
Through its first three seasons, The Bear has won 21 Emmy Awards, including a best comedy series award in 2023 — one of 10 Emmys it took home that year — and acting honors for White, Curtis, Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Jon Bernthal. Season four will be eligible for the 2026 Emmys in September.
The show’s cast also includes Liza Colon Zayas, Lionel Boyce, Matty Matheson, Edwin Lee Gibson and Corey Hendrix. Storer executive produces with Josh Senior, Joanna Calo, Cooper Wehde, Tyson Bidner, Matty Matheson, Hiro Murai and Rene Gube. Courtney Storer is co-EP and culinary producer. FX Productions is the studio.
