Did 'The Bear' Season 5 Feature a Major Sydney and Carmy Continuity Error?
The Bear just came to an end, but fans are still pointing out continuity errors.
During season 5, which premiered on Thursday, June 25, Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) asked Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) about her favorite meal of all time, and she mentioned trying a scallop and grapefruit dish. Eagle-eyed viewers, however, remembered a scene where Sydney was shown trying hamachi and blood orange, which Carmy prepared at a past job before they met.
"Syd said it was scallop and grapefruit when she and I both know it was hamachi and blood orange ☹️," read an X post. "These continuity issues will be the death of me 😭."
Others had a different read on the scene.
"The fact that Sydney is still too closed off to even tell Carmy about the blood orange hamachi," wrote another social media user. "Then we see Donna looking through the notebooks … and it shows the scallop, hamachi drawing, sydney's dish, and legerdemain … Syd literally lied to his face. Donna please come fix your son and daughter in law and reveal the truth."
Some fans of the show slammed the insinuation that it was an error, with another post reading, "I actually don't think this is a continuity error. If it were, one of the dish montages wouldn't explicitly show Syd eating the hamachi dish."
The post continued: "I'm certain this is an intentional choice to imply how Syd wasn't 100 percent ready to open up to Carmy; a ‘show not tell.'"
Before its series finale, continuity and editing mistakes kept popping up on The Bear, including a season 3 scene when the Fak brothers (Matty Matheson and Ricky Staffieri) showed Carmy a list of potential critics that could be visiting the restaurant.
In the fourth episode, Carmy looked at photos of the various reviewers, but two women appeared to both be named Eliza Cameron. It could be possible that The Bear introduced several critics with the same name - or it was a mistake that went unnoticed.
Viewers also previously pointed out other issues, such as Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) wearing - then not wearing - a ring in one scene. An episode centered around Liza Colón-Zayas‘ character, Tina, also made fans question the actual timeline of events on the show.
Cast members later discussed how they struggled to keep up with details on the show because of how seasons 3 and 4 were filmed back-to-back.
"We can't talk about a bunch of stuff. But I kind of forget everything, which is perfect because I'm like, ‘I don't even know,'" Matheson, 44, joked during an interview with Variety in June 2024 while reflecting on filming both seasons together. "I haven't even watched the season, actually. I've seen some edits and some early episodes, but I've only seen episodes 1 through 4, really."
Moss-Bachrach, 49, offered more clarity on the situation the following month.
"Some of these episodes we're splitting [and we] are not making it into two seasons and now we are going to be making 15 or 16 episodes instead of 10. But we're gonna do it all at the same time," he said on a July 2024 episode of the "Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso" podcast. "I would come in at the beginning of the day and shoot a scene from late in season 4 and then shoot a scene from early season 4 and then shoot a scene late in season 3. Jeremy, Ayo and I are in a constant state of rereading through the seasons and trying to remember where your person is at."
At the time, Moss-Bachrach called the process both "thrilling" and "confusing." He mentioned it again during a separate interview with Mr. Porter's The Journal, saying, "I just lose myself in the messiness and chaos of it. I like getting taken by a wave that's bigger than you thought it was, tumbled around and spit out the other end."
The Bear is currently streaming on Hulu.
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This story was originally published June 29, 2026 at 8:17 AM.