{"id":725514,"date":"2026-06-25T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/725514\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:08:09","slug":"heres-what-the-bear-finale-is-not-according-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/725514\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s What ‘The Bear’ Finale Is Not \u2014 According to Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tChristopher Storer and FX are keeping their final serving of The Bear<\/a> close to the apron. While critics and journalists did receive early screener access for the first seven episodes of the show\u2019s final season, we did not get its grand finale, episode 508. So when season five premieres in its entirety (on Hulu, not on linear FX) tonight, to some extent, we\u2019re all in this final dinner service together.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlways looking for a leg up, I asked stars Jeremy Allen White<\/a>, Ayo Edebiri<\/a> and Ebon Moss-Bachrach<\/a> to tell me exactly what happens in the last episode. With five seasons of Disney media training under their belts, the trio didn\u2019t flinch. So I asked them what the finale episode is not.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are no funerals, Edebiri said, and there\u2019s \u201cno Red Wedding,\u201d referring to the iconic ninth episode of season three of Game of Thrones. (It was actually titled \u201cThe Rains of Castamere,\u201d but is colloquially referred to as the Red Wedding for its bloodbath.) Notice how Edebiri didn\u2019t just say no wedding period \u2014 you out there, Claire Bear? (Molly Gordon, who plays Carmy\u2019s ex-girlfriend, is not in the batch of screeners we received.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt wasn\u2019t all a dream,\u201d Moss-Bachrach offered. So no Newhart ending.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut we\u2019re not saying \u2014 like, it could still be insane-asylum fantasy,\u201d Edebiri said. \u201cThat\u2019s still open.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI mean, clearly Carmine (White) is not well.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s no epic jumps forward or backwards in time,\u201d Moss-Bachrach offered. As the only one of the three who has really went back in time, for standalone prequel episode \u201cGary,\u201d he\u2019d be the authority here.<\/p>\n

\n\tOh, and no aliens, Edebiri added.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat it definitely is, White told The Hollywood Reporter, is the end of The Bear \u2014 though he hedged with an \u201cI think so.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a really elegant and appropriate ending to the show that feels complete and significant,\u201d Moss-Bachrach said. Again, not that (at the time of this writing) I\u2019d know. (Also, Storer did not shoot multiple endings or employ any such trickery to keep secrets, well, secret.)<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are also no discussions for \u201cGary,\u201d written by and starring Moss-Bachrach and Jon Bernthal<\/a>, to ultimately serve as a backdoor pilot for a Better Call Saul-type spinoff.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou pitching me?\u201d Moss-Bachrach replied. \u201cI don\u2019t think so. I think \u2018Gary\u2019 is this sweet little fulcrum of a flashback that ties the seasons together, and I think that should stay right there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe surprise \u201cGary\u201d release preceded season five by 51 days; in story, most of the episode preceded the events of season one by a few years. When Moss-Bachrach and Bernthal shot \u201cGary,\u201d they were \u201cnever really sure where it was gonna be placed\u201d in the greater The Bear schedule, Moss-Bachrach continued. What showrunner Storer picked was \u201cperfect,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt just made it vibrate on a bigger level, and it had brought it to life in a different way somehow, rather than just this sort of hermetically-sealed flashback. It became more present,\u201d Moss-Bachrach said.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tEbon Moss-Bachrach and Jon Bernthal in The Bear.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFX on Hulu\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tThe\u00a0fifth and final season of The\u00a0Bear picks up\u00a0the\u00a0morning after Sydney (Edebiri), Richie (Moss-Bachrach) and Natalie (Abby Elliott) discover that Carmy has quit, leaving the restaurant to\u00a0them. \u201cWith no money,\u00a0the\u00a0threat of a sale and a torrential storm in\u00a0their way,\u00a0the\u00a0new partners must band together with\u00a0the\u00a0rest of\u00a0the\u00a0team to achieve one last service, hoping\u00a0they\u2019ll finally earn a Michelin star,\u201d the synopsis reads. \u201cUltimately,\u00a0they learn that what makes a restaurant \u2018perfect\u2019 might not be\u00a0the\u00a0food, but\u00a0the\u00a0people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe\u00a0half-hour series also stars Lionel Boyce, Liza Col\u00f3n-Zayas and Matty Matheson, with Ricky Staffieri, Oliver Platt, Will Poulter and Jamie Lee Curtis in recurring roles.\u00a0The series was created by Storer, who serves as executive producer alongside Josh Senior, Cooper Wehde, Tyson Bidner, Matheson, Hiro Murai and Rene Gube. Storer\u2019s sister \u2014 and a legit chef \u2014 Courtney Storer is the show\u2019s culinary producer. The\u00a0series is produced by FX Productions.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe\u00a0final season of FX\u2019s The\u00a0Bear premieres June 25 at 9\/8c on FX and Hulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christopher Storer and FX are keeping their final serving of The Bear close to the apron. While critics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[66029,20237,88,38132,38524,312060,92],"class_list":["post-725514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ayo-edebiri","tag-ebon-moss-bachrach","tag-entertainment","tag-jeremy-allen-white","tag-the-bear","tag-the-bear-finale","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}