It’s nutty to think just how fast FX’s dysfunctional kitchen drama “The Bear” ascended and how quickly it might just be gone.
Premiering on Hulu in the summer of 2022, “The Bear” literally seemingly came out of nowhere, wasn’t anticipated or known about, and wasn’t exactly heavily promoted in advance.
But critics who got wind of it first knew immediately that the show sizzled with intensity and bruising emotional family baggage, so by the end of the summer, when audiences finally had a chance to catch up and binge it all, the series became a bonafide word of mouth hit.
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