Did Season 5 of The Bear Have a Continuity Error with Sydney and Carmy?
The Bear has recently concluded, yet fans are still highlighting continuity discrepancies.
In season 5, which debuted on Thursday, June 25, Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) inquired about Sydney’s (Ayo Edebiri) favorite dish of all time. She referred to a scallop and grapefruit plate. Sharp-eyed fans, however, recalled a scene where Sydney tasted hamachi and blood orange, a dish Carmy had prepared at a previous job before they crossed paths.
“Syd said it was scallop and grapefruit when she and I both know it was hamachi and blood orange ☹️,” noted a post on X. “These continuity issues will be the death of me 😭.”
Others had a different interpretation of the moment.
“The fact that Sydney is still too closed off to even share with Carmy about the blood orange hamachi,” another user commented. “Then we see Donna flipping through the notebooks … and it displays the scallop, hamachi drawing, Sydney’s dish, and legerdemain … Syd literally lied to his face. Donna, please come help your son and daughter-in-law and reveal the truth.”
Some fans defended the show against claims of an error, with another comment saying, “I actually don’t think this is a continuity mistake. If it were, one of the dish montages wouldn’t clearly show Syd eating the hamachi dish.”
The post elaborated: “I’m certain this is a deliberate choice to indicate how Syd wasn’t fully ready to open up to Carmy; a ‘show not tell’ approach.”
Before its series finale, continuity and editing errors continued to emerge in The Bear, including a scene in season 3 where the Fak brothers (Matty Matheson and Ricky Staffieri) presented Carmy with a list of potential critics visiting the restaurant.
In episode four, while Carmy viewed photos of various reviewers, two women seemed to share the name Eliza Cameron. It’s plausible that The Bear introduced multiple critics with the same name — or this could be an unnoticed error.
Viewers also previously noticed other inconsistencies, such as Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) wearing — then not wearing — a ring in a particular scene. An episode centered around Liza Colón-Zayas‘ character, Tina, also led fans to question the show’s timeline.
Cast members later discussed their challenges in keeping track of details, especially since seasons 3 and 4 were filmed consecutively.
“We can’t discuss many details. But I tend to forget quite a bit, which works perfectly because I’m like, ‘I don’t even know,’” Matheson, 44, quipped during a June 2024 interview with Variety while reflecting on filming both seasons together. “I haven’t seen the season, actually. I’ve viewed some edits and early episodes, but I’ve mostly seen episodes 1 through 4.”
Moss-Bachrach, 49, provided more insight during a podcast episode in July 2024.
“Some of these episodes we’re splitting [and we] are not transitioning into two seasons. Now we’re going to create 15 or 16 episodes instead of just 10, but we will do it all simultaneously,” he explained. “I would start the day shooting a scene from later in season 4, then film one from early season 4 and then one from late season 3. Jeremy, Ayo, and I are in a constant state of re-reading through the seasons and trying to recall where our characters are.”
At that time, Moss-Bachrach described the experience as both “thrilling” and “confusing.” He reiterated the sentiment during a separate interview with Mr. Porter’s The Journal, saying, “I just lose myself in the chaos. I enjoy the feeling of being swept up by a wave bigger than you anticipated, tumbled around, and then spat out the other end.”
The Bear is currently available for streaming on Hulu.
