Netflix confirms Beef season 2 and gives fans a taste of what to expect from the feuding anthology series

It’s a small embarrassing for maine to admit that I ne'er vanished nan critically acclaimed Netflix anthology bid Beef, which was 1 of our 34 champion shows of 2023, but now that we person news of what to expect from Beef season 2 I’m prepared to beryllium roped backmost in. With creator Lee Sung Jin returning arsenic showrunner alongside executive producers Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, who starred successful nan first season, Beef’s second installment will characteristic a marque caller formed and, much importantly, different drama-riddled incident.

A fewer months back, rumors that Netflix was eyeing up Oscar Issac (Dune, Ex Machina) and Carey Mulligan (Maestro, Promising Young Woman) to beryllium nan feuding brace successful Beef season 2 surfaced, and it’s been confirmed that nan 2 will successful truth beryllium starring nan formed for nan show’s adjacent installment. Joining them will beryllium Charles Melton (May December) and Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla, Civil War), who will besides person their stock of nan beef successful nan adjacent play of nan A24-produced show connected 1 of nan best streaming services.

How will Beef season 2 travel its very successful first play (trailer below) you ask? Despite leaving retired specifications of an charismatic merchandise date, Netflix has fixed america a sensation of really play 2 will play out. Spanning complete 8 30-minute episodes, nan adjacent play is group successful nan backdrop of an elitist state nine owned by a Korean billionaire wherever “a young mates witnesses an alarming conflict betwixt their leader and his wife, triggering chess moves of favors and coercion,” Netflix revealed.

The first play of Beef followed characters Danny Cho (Yeun) and Amy Lau (Ali Wong) whose hostility roseate pursuing a roadworthy rage incident that escalates into a feud wherever neither of them definitive nan desire to backmost down. Show creator Lee Sung Jin came up pinch nan thought for nan crippled pursuing his ain experiences pinch a roadworthy rage incident, which he shared during nan South by Southwest Festival astatine nan clip of nan show’s play 1 launch: “It honked astatine me, cursed astatine maine and drove away.”

Netflix, you had maine astatine Carey Mulligan

I’ve precocious voiced my feelings connected nan best Netflix shows and really I’ve felt alternatively fto down erstwhile I deliberation I’ve recovered nan 1 for me, only for it to beryllium canceled aft 1 season. So erstwhile I discovered precocious that two of Netflix’s biggest shows had been renewed, it started to reconstruct my faith.

Despite ne'er completing nan first play of Beef, that doesn’t mean I haven’t recognized its successful tally pinch audiences (the Emmys speak for themselves). And pinch Carey Mulligan’s sanction among nan formed alone, I consciousness my conscience bias kicking successful arsenic I was a large instrumentality of her capacity successful Maestro (2023) and of people not forgetting her small, but humorous domiciled successful Saltburn (2023).

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