The Bear Season 3 Trailer Serves Up a New 'Stressed Carmy' Meme

The show of summer 2024 — for some, of the whole year — is almost back. FX’s The Bear returns June 27 with more tense kitchen drama, classic rock, and superb performances, including from Jeremy Allen White, who looks predictably stressed in this first trailer.

Pretty much the whole gang’s featured in this 30-second preview: Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), Marcus (Lionel Boyce), Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas), Sugar (Abby Elliott), and Fak (Matty Matheson). (You could include “Emmy winner” in front of nearly half those names now, and possibly the rest later this year). And they all look like they’re feeling the pressure following the soft opening of The Bear (the restaurant), with Sugar and Richie trying to mollify customers while Sydney expedites and Marcus tries to keep the peace between Carmy and Cousin. When Sydney sighs about their "dysfunctional kitchen," both Richie and Carmy exclaim "Show me a functional one!"

The overarching plot for Season 3 is still mostly under wraps, though in 2023, White suggested a return to a “functional kitchen” after all the scrambling to launch the new restaurant. In an earlier interview from 2023, the Iron Claw actor also implied that Carmy would be dealing with the fallout of his anxiety, which led to his breakdown at the end of Season 2. He looks both “typical Carmy” levels of anxious and “whoops, the dam has broken” in this teaser, but there’s one shot that’s bound to lead to a new wave of riffs on what Carmy’s shouting in the kitchen.

Speaking of stress, it's a good time to remind you that The Bear remains on the binge release schedule for Season 3, so plan accordingly.

Danette Chavez is the Editor-in-Chief of Primetimer and its biggest fan of puns.