Everyone’s favorite television-induced anxiety attack, The Bear, returns on June 27. The official trailer for the third season of the Emmy Award-winning series previews the tense interpersonal exchanges in store — both in and out of the kitchen — for the upcoming set of episodes.

In the clip, Jeremy Allen White‘s Carmy is — as he tends to be — too intense for his own good. The chef introduces a list of non-negotiables for his restaurant crew to follow because “that’s how restaurants at the highest level operate.” It includes a ban on repeat ingredients across recipes and a push for vibrant collaboration, confidence, and competence.

But Carmy isn’t expecting to turn up the heat on his team without them lighting a fire under him, too. In one scene, he presents Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) with a partnership agreement, “so that you can push me and I can push you.” All the while, everyone in the kitchen is pushing each other’s buttons — take Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) pushing an impromptu Feliz Cumpleaños surprise song and piñata presentation, despite Carmy’s deepest objections, for example.

The stakes are raised even higher as viewers are brought back into the storyline of Carmy and Claire — the girl he fumbled because he “basically said that I couldn’t waste my time” — and introduced to a looming plot line about crew of food critics who could stand between Carmy and a Michelin star.

The Bear was renewed for its third season in November 2023 — five months after the premiere of its second season — and renewed for its fourth season while in the process of filming that one.

In February, FX chairman John Landgraf told Variety that the network would be sticking with its binge approach to The Bear, releasing each episode in the season at once rather than pivoting to a week-to-week schedule. “It wasn’t lost on me or anyone who worked on the show that it was anxiety-inducing,” he said. “So we made a decision to drop the whole thing because it has a beautiful, uplifting ending.”