Everything we know about “Beef ”season 2

Netflix is cooking up a second season of Beef, creator Lee Sung Jin’s revenge anthology.

The celebrated debut season starred Steven Yeun and Ali Wong as Danny and Amy, respectively, strangers who get into a road rage incident in the parking lot of a grocery store and allow it to unravel their lives and neuroses. They enact a series of escalating revenge tactics against each other, and it all comes to a head at the bottom of a canyon after the two drive each other off a cliff. The premise was loosely inspired by Lee’s own Los Angeles road rage incident years ago, when a man aggressively berated him for not hitting the gas pedal soon enough after the stop light turned green.

“There was a lot of honking, cursing, pulling up next to me, window rolled down — the whole thing — and then he drove off," Lee recalled to Entertainment Weekly, assuring that he didn’t go to the same chaotic lengths of revenge like his characters. The incident, or, more specifically, “idea that we're so trapped in our subjective realities and projecting so many assumptions onto one another," laid the foundation for the series, which swept awards season and won various Golden Globes and Emmys. It’s no surprise, then, that Netflix greenlit another season as an anthology with new faces and stories.

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Below is everything we know so far about Beef season 2.

What will Beef season 2 be about?

Road rage will not be at the center of the second season, which will this time around follow dual couples and be a possible indictment on differing social classes. The official synopsis reads: “A young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering chess moves of favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner.”

Who will star in Beef season 2?

Charles Melton (Riverdale, May December) and Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla, Civil War) have been cast as the young couple, while Oscar Isaac (Scenes From A Marriage, Inside Llewyn Davis) and Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, Maestro) will play their adversaries. Rounding out the cast are Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari, Pachinko), Song Kang-ho (Parasite, Snowpiercer), Seoyeon Jang (Butterfly), William Fichtner (Mom, The Talamasca), Mikaela Hoover (Superman, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), and musician BM in his acting debut.

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When does Beef season 2 premiere?

Netflix has yet to announce a premiere date for season 2, which will consist of eight, 30-minute episodes and once again count Lee as showrunner and executive producer.

Will Steven Yeun and Ali Wong return for Beef season 2?

While Yeun and Wong won’t appear on screen, fret not! The dynamic duo will return behind the scenes as executive producers alongside Lee and original collaborator Jake Schreier.

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How many seasons of Beef will there be?

This has yet to be confirmed, but Lee previously divulged that he initially had three seasons mapped out in his head. But this was notably before Netflix confirmed it would take an anthology approach. “I wanted it to have a conclusive feel just in case, but there are a lot of ideas on my end to keep this story going," Lee told Rolling Stone in 2023. "I think, should we be blessed with a season 2, there’s a lot of ways for Danny and Amy to continue. I have one really big general idea that I can’t really say yet, but I have three seasons mapped out in my head, currently.”

This article will be updated as more information becomes available. 

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