TV Shows Like The Bear
If you like The Bear, here are 12 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
Hulu · Drama · The Bear is renewed
The Bear works because it refuses to make restaurant life look romantic. The kitchen is loud, cramped, and frequently on the edge of collapse, and the people inside it carry damage they haven't quite found the language for yet. Carmy isn't a hero in the traditional sense. He's a talented, wounded person trying to hold something together, and the show is honest about how badly that can go. The combination of genuine warmth and genuine dysfunction is what hooks people. Viewers don't just want Carmy to succeed. They want the whole crew to make it through the day.
The best shows like The Bear
1. Bad Sisters
Like The Bear, Bad Sisters is fundamentally about people who would do anything for each other, even when that loyalty makes things messier and more dangerous. The show balances dark comedy with genuine emotional weight, and the Garvey sisters have the kind of complicated, lived-in dynamic that fans of Carmy's crew will recognize immediately. It also has real stakes, moving between warmth and dread in a way that feels earned rather than manipulative.
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2. Succession
Succession is the obvious point of comparison for anyone drawn to The Bear's portrait of a family business as a site of love, competition, and mutual destruction. The writing is sharp and often funny in ways that make the cruelty land harder. If you liked watching Carmy try to hold his family's legacy together while being pulled apart by it, the Roy family offers a much larger and more ruinous version of the same story.
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3. Six Feet Under
Six Feet Under follows a family that runs a business together and can't quite escape each other, which puts it in direct conversation with The Bear's central situation. The show is quieter and more meditative, but it has the same interest in how grief shapes people over time and how work becomes a way of avoiding, and sometimes processing, the hardest things in life. Fans of The Bear's emotional honesty will find a lot to hold onto here.
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4. Shrinking
Shrinking shares The Bear's tone more closely than almost anything else on this list: it's funny and sad at the same time, and it takes the difficulty of grief seriously without letting it become punishing. Jimmy's decision to start being radically honest with everyone around him produces the same kind of chaotic, warm, occasionally catastrophic energy that The Bear runs on. The ensemble is genuinely good, and the show has a lot of affection for its characters without going soft on them.
Stream on Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel
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5. Goliath
Goliath is a different kind of show, more of a legal thriller, but Billy McBride is a recognizable type for Bear fans: a person with real talent who has let things fall apart and is trying to put together enough momentum to matter again. The ragtag team dynamic and the sense of an underdog working against something much larger than themselves will feel familiar. It's a good pick if what you responded to in The Bear was less the family drama and more the satisfaction of a crew finding its rhythm.
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More on shows like The Bear
Fans of The Bear tend to be drawn to stories about family, chosen or otherwise, and about people who are good at something but struggling to live with themselves. They respond to shows that mix comedy and pain without letting either cancel the other out. They also tend to appreciate tight writing and an interest in the specific textures of work, whether that's running a kitchen, managing grief, or navigating a family business that nobody quite wants to be in but nobody can walk away from.
The recommendations here cluster around a few of those instincts. Succession and Six Feet Under both center on family businesses that function as pressure cookers, trapping characters in relationships that are loving and corrosive at the same time. Bad Sisters has that same quality of people bound together by history and protectiveness, even when things get dark and morally complicated. Shrinking picks up the emotional frequency of The Bear more directly, with its mix of grief, humor, and the difficulty of actually showing up for the people around you. Goliath is the outlier tonally, but it shares the show's interest in someone rebuilding themselves through work, surrounded by a scrappy team, against odds that seem designed to grind them down.
None of these shows are perfect matches, but that's fine. The Bear itself resists easy categorization, so it makes sense that its nearest neighbors come from different directions.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like The Bear?
- Bad Sisters is the most popular show similar to The Bear in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like The Bear still on the air?
- Of the 12 shows similar to The Bear listed here, 2 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like The Bear?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.