Matty Matheson Addresses 'The Bear' Season 3, Surprise Guest Star Cameo & How the Show Should be Categorized at the Emmys

Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER WARNING: This story contains spoilers for Season 3 of “The Bear,” available to stream now on Hulu. “The Bear” Season 3 begins and ends with a funeral. But in the finale, it’s a restaurant being mourned.

SPOILER ALERT:This list contains spoilers for Season 3 of “The Bear.” “The Bear” wowed audiences in Season 2 with a head-spinning number of guest stars, most of them appearing in one episode as members of the extended Berzatto family. Many of those guest stars — Jamie Lee Curtis, John Mulaney, Gillian Jacobs — are back in Season 3, as well as fan favorites Olivia Colman and Will Poulter, who play fictional chefs in Carmy’s (Jeremy Allen White) orbit. Among the newbies this season are a murderer’s row of culinary legends playing themselves, the real-life spouse of a “Bear” cast member who now plays their on-screen spouse, and a certain WWE star-turned-actor.

When the FX drama “The Bear” arrived out of nowhere in the summer of 2021, it was thrilling, a bolt of “Uncut Gems”-like electricity coursing through the veins of damaged, traumatized characters trying to survive not only the high-pressure-cooker stress of a highly dysfunctional kitchen setting but their highly dysfunctional and broken lives. Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who plays Cousin Ritchie on the show, perfectly described the series in our season one interview as “high-sodium volatility”; no one was coked up on drugs per se (though sometimes they were), but the surging blood pressure anxieties of their environment and lives made for a brilliantly toxic and gripping show about generational trauma, grinding through life and surviving grief.

Jeremy Allen White is getting back to his regular, daily schedule.

The Bear has returned to Disney+ for its hotly-anticipated third season - but fans appear to be torn over the award-winning comedy. After an explosive first episode, some reckon the rest of the series is 'monotonous and tiresome.'

Long Live The Bear’s epic soundtrack, and especially the show’s relationship with Taylor Swift. Season 3 is back with a new set of challenges and road bumps for the crew at Carmy’s fine dining restaurant. As always, emotional moments and certain scenes in episodes are accompanied by a resonant song.

The Bear is back!

all but swept the Emmys and Golden Globes – follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), an uptight chef from the world of Michelin-starred restaurants who returns to Chicago to helm his brother Mikey’s (Jon Bernthal) chaotic sandwich shop after Mikey’s suicide. At first, the ragtag kitchen staff was skeptical, but in Season 2, Carmy and Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) wrangled them into leveling up and giving the place an upscale makeover. Going into Season 3, they’re a more cohesive team.Season 3 is a mixed bag.

Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER WARNING: This interview contains spoilers for “The Bear,” including a surprise cameo. Matty Matheson has spent his career running restaurants. Now, he’s focused on a fictional one. With FX’s “The Bear,” the Toronto-based celebrity chef and restaurateur added actor to his resume, playing the loud, lovable and sometimes immature handyman Neil Fak in addition to his role as a culinary consultant and producer on the show.

The Bear has just landed in the UK on Disney+, and the soundtrack to the latest show features classic songs from bands including Radiohead.The highly anticipated third season arrived in the US yesterday (June 26) ahead of schedule, and is now available to stream in the UK today (June 27) on Disney+.The popular comedy-drama – which has been hailed a huge commercial and critical success since its premiere two years ago – stars Jeremy Allen White as a chef who returns to manage his late brother’s chaotic sandwich shop in Chicago.Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach also star in the show, which debuted in 2022 and returned for a second season in 2023. It’s since racked up 10 Emmy and four Golden Globes, including Best Performance awards for stars Allen White and Edebiri.A synopsis of the new season reads: “Season three of FX’s The Bear follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri) and Richard “Richie” Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) as they do what it takes to elevate The Bear, their beef stand turned fine dining establishment, to the highest level, all while doing their best just to stay in business.

Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder has contributed his cover of ‘Save It For Later’ by The Beat (or The English Beat) to season three of The Bear.The third season of the Emmy-winning restaurant drama aired yesterday (June 26) and received a mixed reaction from critics.As well as the award-winning acting, impressive shots of downtown Chicago and gripping storylines, the show has gained a reputation for its soundtracks.Featuring tracks from Radiohead to Genesis and Taylor Swift, the show’s varied themes are often represented by its diverse soundtrack.While there has been some repetition of artists used for the soundtrack, including Pearl Jam, whose songs ‘Animal’ and ‘Come Back’ made it into previous seasons, Vedder makes his debut solo feature on the show.It also marks his first official studio release of the cover. In the past, he has performed the song with Pearl Jam as part of a ‘Better Man’ live medley.The track also appeared in the background of a teaser trailer released earlier this month, which showed Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri’s characters preparing to open their new restaurant, now named ‘The Bear’.In a glowing four-star review of the series, NME wrote about the show’s music choices: “Musically, the first few episodes hold back on the show’s traditional juicy needle-drops, although Radiohead’s ‘Nice Dream’ plays (a second appearance for the British band in the show).But as later EPs drop, so do the tracks, including a glorious use of Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’.

dominated the Emmys and Golden Globes — is about Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), a chef from the fine-dining world, who returns to Chicago to helm his brother Mikey’s (Jon Bernthal) sandwich shop after Mikey dies by suicide. At first, the crew of the restaurant was skeptical about Carmy and his vision, but in Season 2, he and Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) wrangled them into giving the place a fine-dining makeover. By Season 3, they continue their work with pride.

FX’s highly acclaimed, highly anticipated dysfunctional kitchen/family drama “The Bear” returned to Hulu yesterday, June 26, to much online fanfare (fans were binge-watching the series immediately). Created by Christopher Storer and co-showrun by Storer and Joanna Calo, the two sole directors on the series thus far aside from a Ramy Youseff (“Ramy”) directorial guest spot in season two and a new slate of directors scheduled for season three, earlier this year, it was reported that “The Bear” was scheduled to shoot season three and four back to back.

The Bear has just landed in the UK on Disney+, but talk is already turning to when the fourth season of the hit culinary show will arrive on screens.The highly anticipated third season arrived in the U.S. yesterday (June 26) ahead of schedule, and is now available to stream in the U.K.

The Bear are starting to come in, and it seems the highly anticipated series has gone downhill.The restaurant drama starring Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, among others, dished its third course yesterday. After sweeping the Emmys earlier this year, winning Best Comedy series and multiple acting awards, fans are eager to get their teeth into another season.However, the reviews are starting to pile in, and they’re not all as celebratory as fans might have expected.

Alison Herman TV Critic SPOILER ALERT: The following piece evaluates Season 3 of “The Bear.” While major plot developments — including guest stars — have been withheld to preserve the viewing experience, the network has requested spoiler warnings on all reviews. The second, much-improved season of “The Bear” was defined by a sense of momentum. Its 10 episodes were transitional in a literal sense, taking the FX half-hour from the closure of a family-owned Italian beef shop in Chicago’s River North to the opening of a fine dining concept in the same space.

Jeremy Allen White is gushing over Ayo Edebiri!

Hulu tonight, just about one year after season 2 came out. Since then, “The Bear” has racked up significant acclaim, Emmys, Golden Globes, and more. When the second season ended, we left Chef Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) locked in the freezer after a triumphant if stressful soft opening of the new restaurant where Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) soared while Chef… threw a tantrum in the walk-in.The season 3 trailer promises the same levels of anxiety, delicious food, and drama as past seasons, but remember – “The Bear” is, for purposes of awards at least, a comedy.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Season 3 of “The Bear” will be served shortly. The Emmy-winning show, starring Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, will return to Hulu on Wednesday, June 27.

Richard Osman admitted on his hit podcast this week that he may have cost BBC’s The Wheel ‘millions’ as he broke one of their cardinal rules. While speaking with his The Rest is Entertainment co-host Marina Hyde, the former Pointless host admitted that when he was on The Wheel he was told not to do one important thing: whatever you do, do not sing along to the theme song.