The Bear
Soda
TV Flash files “Soda” as the first listed hour of season 5 — The Bear (2022–present) on FX/Hulu, season 5, episode 1, aired 2026-06-25, 21 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E01: listed hour 39 of 46 in the The Bear guide, first listed hour of season 5. It aired 2026-06-25 (21 min). The listed hour before it is “Goodbye” (S04E10). Next is “Lamb” (S05E02).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A storm hits.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Soda sit in the The Bear guide?
S05E01 is listed hour 39 of 46 — first listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 1.
When did The Bear S05E01 air?
Soda aired 2026-06-25 and is listed at 21 minutes.
Where should I start The Bear?
Season 1, episode 1 — “System.” The first season dropped complete on Hulu on June 23, 2022, and the pilot is the tone contract: kitchen speed, grief, and no laugh track. Do not start on a viral clip.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch it for the drop math as much as the tickets: a Hulu half-hour that converted kitchen panic into comedy-Emmy inventory, then kept late-June seasons coming while restaurants quoted it like a union chant. Stress as retention. Chicago as a brand.
Thursday dump logic loves a title you can explain in a snarl. FX and Hulu did not wait for a linear timeslot to teach America kitchen panic. They dropped The Bear as a complete first season on June 23, 2022 — a half-hour that behaved like a thriller and then parked itself in the comedy Emmy lane like the awards body was in on the joke. Rex will tell you living-room America used to decide this stuff on a Tuesday. Cute. The machine decided in a weekend of Continue Watching, line cooks quoting “Yes, chef” into their…
Filed against
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- Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu
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- Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richard "Richie" Jerimovich
Ebon Moss-Bachrach's Richard "Richie" Jerimovich is the Chicago-beef politics inside The Bear — grief, tickets, and a supporting lead who can hijack a half-hour that behaves like a thriller. TV Flash files him as the second series hiding…
- Lionel Boyce as Marcus Brooks
Lionel Boyce’s Marcus Brooks is The Bear’s pastry calm inside kitchen panic — FX/Hulu half-hour as thriller, “Yes, chef” as a national mood, comedy Emmys fighting restaurant TikTok for the stress. Not the hunted lead; the station that…
- Liza Colón-Zayas as Tina Marrero
Liza Colón-Zayas’s Tina Marrero is the veteran line that The Bear cannot fake — Original Beef muscle meeting fine-dining panic inside FX and Hulu’s half-hour kitchen thriller. Chicago stress as retention needed someone who had already…
- Abby Elliott as Natalie "Sugar" Berzatto
Abby Elliott steadies The Bear as Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto — sister, spreadsheet, and emotional air-traffic control for a Chicago kitchen that behaves like a thriller. SNL roots feed comedy that still lands when the tickets pile up. TV…