'The Bear' Season 3 Dips From Its Near-Perfect Reviews From ...

The Bear

Hulu

The Bear season 3 premiered last night on Hulu, almost exactly a year from season 2’s debut. You can binge the entire thing if you want as they are still doing a all-at-once release model, which seems to have worked for them. Early critic and audience reviews are in, and while still solid, they have dipped just a bit from the near-perfect scores of the first two seasons on Rotten Tomatoes. For reference:

The Bear Season 1 – 100% from 80 critics, 92% audience score The Bear Season 2 – 99% from 109 critics, 93% audience score The Bear Season 3 – 94% from 31 critics, 82% audience score.

And keep in mind it is much harder to retain a 99-100% when you have that many critic reviews in. Though season 3 could still get pulled up if the next 70 critics all like it.

The Bear

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The Bear season 1 swept the Emmys, and people may not realize that was for season 1, not season 2, which is destined to win a bunch more given how great it was. I would still expect The Bear season 3 to be pretty well-received, even with a small dip, though that does put it below something like The Boys season 4 at 95%, and Evil season 4 with a 100%. Audience scores are lower too, but there are not that many in so far.

We can also head over to IMDB to see how it’s doing per episode. Things are solid. Five of the ten episodes are above a 9.0. None of them are below an 8.5. These are actually higher than a majority of season 2 episodes (though Fishes and Forks have a 9.6 and 9.7 respectively) and the same goes for season 1 (the famous one-take episode, Review, has a 9.5, however). Though again, fewer reviews are in, and these are from big enough fans to binge watch the whole thing day one.

We do not know the long term plan for The Bear, only that its creators have something mapped out for its entire arc. My guess would be that it runs for maybe five seasons, as it seems like a show that isn’t going to want to overstay it’s welcome, but still last a good while as we watch the characters grow in time, which has been one of the best parts of the series already.

I’m looking forward to watching it myself soon enough here, and I’ll have my own review then.

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