Change is on the menu for the upcoming new season of FX’s summer season smash The Bear.

The sequence, starring Jeremy Allen White as a fine-dining chef working his household’s restaurant following a tragedy, was an instantaneous hit when all eight episodes of Season 1 landed on Hulu in June 2022.

FX head John Landgraf beforehand known as the present “one of the crucial commercially profitable comedies in each FX and Hulu’s historical past.” And on the Winter Tv Critics Affiliation Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif. on Thursday, Landgraf revealed the ultimate episode of the present was streamed 140,000 instances concurrently the morning after its premiere.

So it is sensible that the community is upping the ante for Season 2.

Throughout a TCA panel for The Bear, FX revealed that Season 2 of the present, which is out there solely on Hulu, will arrive in early 2023 and be expanded to 10 episodes.

With the 2 extra episodes within the new season, viewers will get much more of Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (White), and the showrunners outlined some new challenges forward for the chef.

On the TCA panel, showrunners and writers Christopher Storer and Joanna Calo revealed they’ve lengthy had a stable plan for Season 2, which can proceed to toe the road between comedy and drama.

“We type of had a fairly stable map of what was going to occur in Season 2 even earlier than we had been completed taking pictures Season 1,” Storer stated. “Once we all began making the present collectively, it was so below the radar in Chicago that… it nearly felt like a pupil movie in the absolute best manner.”

Storer remained tight-lipped over plot particulars for Season 2, however did reveal that viewers will see the forged construct a brand new restaurant.

“A part of the explanation why I even needed to make the present within the first place was I most likely turn into unhealthily obsessive about time in quite a lot of cases, and it will probably create anxiousness, and there’s no higher setting than a restaurant for the pressures of that,” he stated. “You’re going to see them construct a restaurant, however, ostensibly, they suppose they’re ranging from a wholesome place. However a restaurant, like quite a lot of different companies, simply creates the identical quantity of issues and the identical quantity of complications on daily basis.”

Storer added that the characters would step up in numerous methods and regress in others, in the end making an attempt to return collectively to get the enterprise working.

Expectation is a heavy burden to Bear

No matter plot adjustments, viewers can nonetheless count on The Bear to remain true to its tone.

“There was one thing enjoyable about with the ability to select—will we wish to lean into comedy or will we wish to lean into drama?” Calo stated. ”Hopefully, if we acquired to proceed, we might hold sort of selecting sides right here and there.”

Contemporary off of a Golden Globe win for White, The Bear executives aren’t frightened about topping Season 1.

“I hold telling everybody it’s going to be unhealthy,” Calo joked. “I’m critical. I inform everybody. I’m like, ‘You’re not going to love it. It’s going to be unhealthy.’”

For Storer, it’s about staying true to the story.

“When it comes to strain, I really feel like if we proceed to inform an sincere story and we attempt to be low to the bottom like we did final time, I not less than suppose our hearts are in the correct place,” Storer stated.