The Bear casts says goodbye as final season premieres June 25

FX is bringing The Bear to a close with a fifth and final season that premieres Thursday, June 25, 2026, and lands all at once on Hulu. The season begins the morning after Sydney Adamu, Richie Jerimovich and Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto learn that Carmy Berzatto has quit the food industry and left the restaurant in their hands.

That setup keeps the series where it made its name: inside a Chicago kitchen where personal ambition, family obligation and service-industry pressure collide in public view. The trailer shows the restaurant hit by a flood, a delivery cut off, a building sale threat and a lack of funds, forcing Sydney to step forward while the crew tries to keep the business alive. Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Matty Matheson and Edwin Lee Gibson remain in the ensemble, with Ricky Staffieri, Oliver Platt, Will Poulter and Jamie Lee Curtis in recurring roles. Olivia Colman, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk and John Mulaney have also appeared as guest stars across the series.

The final season follows a release pattern FX and Hulu have already used to turn the show into a summer event. Season 4 premiered on June 25, 2025, and all 10 episodes were released at once, extending the binge-drop model that has made each season feel less like a weekly appointment and more like a full-immersion viewing stretch. FX renewed the series for Season 5 in 2025, and Jamie Lee Curtis said in March 2026 that the show would end with the upcoming fifth season.

That ending matters because The Bear became one of the defining workplace dramas of the post-pandemic TV era by turning service labor into prestige television. Its kitchen scenes made burnout, perfectionism and economic precarity feel immediate rather than background detail, and its success opened space for a kind of drama that treated restaurant work as a front-line national story. The final season returns to those same pressures with a restaurant facing collapse, a staff stretched thin and a closing chapter built around whether the people left behind can hold the place together long enough to claim it as their own.