The much-awaited second season of beefNetflix’s award-winning anthology from writer-director Lee Sung Jin is almost here. Gone are the parking lot fights for a country club backdrop adorned by a star-studded main cast including Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny.
In the season trailer released by the streamer on Thursday (April 2), two couples become engaged, whether they like it or not.
This terrifying nearly minute and a half trailer begs the question – is Mulligan’s Lindsay happy with Isaac’s passion? “I think deep down we always knew it was a temporary bandaid,” Mulligan says. When asked what the Band-Aid was for, he added, “For the extreme pain of knowing you chose the wrong person.”
season two of beef The show will follow an entirely new cast and unrelated storyline compared to the first season, which earned eight Emmy Awards, four Critics’ Choice Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two Gotham Awards, two SAG Awards, as well as numerous other guild honors. It is safe to say that the series is set to dominate the awards seasons of 2023 and 2024. The first season starred Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, both of whom won Emmys for their performances.
According to the season synopsis, the second season will be based on “a Gen Z couple (who) witnesses a dangerous fight between their Millennial boss and his wife”. “Newly hired Ashley Miller (Spenny) and Austin Davis (Melton), both low-level employees of a country club, become entangled in the unresolved marriage of their general manager, Joshua Martin (Isaacs), and his wife, Lindsey Crane-Martin (Carey Mulligan). ”
Zion Jang is out of the season regular series list. Award-winning Korean actors Yoon Yuh-jung and Song Kang-ho will also star alongside William Fichtner, Mikaela Hoover, Matthew Kim, known by his K-pop stage name BM.
“Through favors and coercion, both couples vie for the approval of the elite club’s billionaire owner, Chairwoman Park (Yoon), who struggles to manage her own scandal involving her second husband, Doctor Kim (Song),” the synopsis concludes.
beefis from A24, produced by Lee, Shoran and executive produced. Jake Schreiber, Yun, Wong, Mulligan, Isaac, Melton, Spaeny, Anna Moench, Kitao Sakurai and Ethan Kupperberg serve as executive producers for season two. The eight-episode season will drop on Netflix on April 16.
see beef Trailer for season two below.
