How to Watch ‘The Bear’ Season Two: Where to Stream the Smash Series Online

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Whether you have experience on the line in a kitchen, have a thing for cooks in classic white tees, or just love seeing a good plate of food get put together on screen, there’s something for everyone in FX’s hit original series The Bear, with all of Season Two now streaming on Hulu.

After much buzz from those in and outside the culinary world, The Bear has returned for a second course, as stars Jeremy Allen White (Carmy), Ayo Edebiri (Sydney), and the cast take us along for the wild ride of turning The Original Beef of Chicagoland into their dream restaurant: The Bear. Just in time for the second season’s premiere, there are a couple of ways to binge the whole dramatic series from creator Christopher Storer.

Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch The Bear Season Two online and its “electrifying” new episodes.

The Bear Season 2 Release Date

Like the first season, the entirety of the second season of The Bear premiered on Hulu on June 22, 2023. Get a Hulu free trial HERE.

“As before, every emotion the show conjures is a palpable, potent one, so that the lighter scenes create the illusion that you’re standing right next to the characters, while the heavier ones make you experience the pain right along with them,” writes Alan Sepinwall in Rolling Stone‘s The Bear Season Two review.

Continues Sepinwall: “It remains a magnificent achievement. The ever-so-slight shift in tone most of the time doesn’t change that — especially since The Bear can still make scenes and episodes so nerve-racking, you will question every life choice that led you to watching it. At an Al-Anon meeting, Carmy tells the group, ‘I have to remind myself to breathe sometimes.’ His audience will have to do the same at different points in Season Two. Just not as often as a year ago.”

How to Watch The Bear Season 2 on TV

The Bear is an exclusive-to-Hulu series, so you won’t be able to watch The Bear on TV on conventional cable. If you want to watch The Bear on TV, you can stream it through the Hulu app on your Roku Stick, Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K, Apple TV and similar streaming device.

How to Watch The Bear Season 2 Online

For the time being, you’ll only be able to watch The Bear Season Two online through Hulu. To stream The Bear, here are the current Hulu subscription options and prices.

1. Stream The Bear Season 2 on Hulu (basic plan)

The cheapest way to watch The Bear online is Hulu’s entry-level plan, which costs $7.99 per month (or $79.99 per year). This plan does include ad breaks, but you get access to the whole first season, as well as a host of other movies, shows and Hulu exclusive series like The Handmaid’s Tale.

Buy Hulu (Basic Plan) $7.99/month

2. Stream The Bear on Hulu (No Ads)

Perhaps the best Hulu plan — and the best way to binge The Bear online — is the platform’s ad-free subscription. You get full access to all the on-demand content, without any ad breaks, and it costs just $14.99 per month.

Buy Hulu (Ad-Free Plan) $14.99/month

3. Stream The Bear With Hulu + Live TV

If you want live TV, opt for Hulu + Live TV. For $69.99 a month, you get live streaming of 75+ popular TV channels, plus access to ESPN+ and Disney+ for free. That’s in addition to all the on-demand content of the basic plan. Use Hulu + Live TV to watch the The Bear series online, then switch over to watch live TV, all from one service.

Buy Hulu + Live TV $69.99/month

How to Watch The Bear for Free Online

While Hulu technically requires a subscription, it is possible to watch The Bear for free online. Hulu’s basic plan and its upgraded No Ads plan offer generous 30-day free trials, meaning you’ll have plenty of time to watch the whole series. Get a Hulu free trial HERE.

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The Bear Season 2: Cast, Review, Number of Episodes

Leading The Bear is Jeremy Allen White, with Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Cousin Richie), Lionel Boyce (Marcus), Liza Colón-Zayas (Tina), Abby Elliott (Carmy’s sister Natalie), and Ayo Edebiri (Sydney) also starring.

“I love acting with him,” Edebiri told Rolling Stone‘s CT Jones in an interview about working with White. “[Jeremy] was such a generous scene partner and person, and such a hard worker with very consistent energy. He’s so phenomenal.”

White reprises his role as “Carmy” Berzatto, who in Season One returned home to Chicago to manage The Original Beef of Chicagoland, a rundown River North restaurant owned by his late brother Mikey, played by Jon Bernthal, who died by suicide.

The Bear Season Two features 10 episodes, and once again follows the lives of the cooks and Carmy as the entire crew turns The Beef into the fine-dining experience of their dreams, now dubbed The Bear.

More Food-Related Shows and Movies Like The Bear

If you’ve got a craving for more foodie shows and films like The Bear, you can keep salivating over delicious plates and high-tension drama with these top picks — here’s what to watch if you love The Bear. 

1. Chef (Max)

After an argument with the owner of his restaurant, Chef Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) decides to leave fine dining behind and ends up in the possession of an old food trick which he uses to create a Cuban-inspired concept. With his young son and his best friend, he travels around the country looking to reignite his old passion for cooking. Plus, the grilled cheese scene is absolutely stunning.

Where to Watch: MAX

2. Gentefied (Netflix)

Gentefied (which had a killer two-season run before unceremoniously being cancelled by Netflix earlier this year) follows three Mexican–American cousins as they struggle to run their family’s taco shop in Los Angeles, all while dealing with the challenges of encroaching gentrification on their neighborhood. If you like similar themes of food and family, Gentefied is the season for you.

Where to Watch: Netflix 

3. No Reservations (Amazon Prime)

No Reservations follows Catherine Zeta-Jones as a perfectionist, career-oriented chef who becomes the legal guardian of her young niece (Abigail Breslin) after her sister passes away. While it becomes more of a workplace romantic comedy when a new sous-chef threatens to take over her kitchen by shaking things up (sounds familiar?), it follows a lot of the same beats of how much we give ourselves to our work over our loved ones.

Where to Watch: Amazon Prime 

4. Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (Max)

There’s no one who did it like Bourdain. Before his tragic death rocked the culinary world in 2018, this Emmy Award-winning show followed Bourdain around the globe as he journeyed to explore part of the world rarely captured on U.S. TV. As an extension of his acclaimed Travel Channel series No Reservations, along the way he showcased cuisines, cultures, and the people who made them with a passion and respect rarely matched. With amazingly curated stops, you’ll find yourself transported everywhere from Libya and Myanmar, to LA’s Koreatown.

Where to Watch: Max

5. Ratatouille (Disney+)

Want a more wholesome take on kitchen chaos? Look no further than Pixar’s daring (and delicious) tale about a rat named Remy (Patton Oswalt) who has big culinary dreams, and teams up with a socially-awkward dishwasher in his favorite chef’s restaurant, Gusteau’s to achieve them. You won’t get the profanity and near-altercations you would from The Bear, but you will feel the fast-paced stress of a dinner service in a fine French restaurant, and similar themes on found family.

Where to Watch: Disney+