‘Beef’ Season 2 Trailer: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton and Cailee Spainey Star in Highly Anticipated Follow-Up
The highly anticipated second season of Beef, Netflix’s award-winning anthology from writer-director Lee Sung Jin, is almost here. Gone are the parking lot feuds, traded for a country club background decorated by the star-studded main cast of Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny.
In the season’s trailer, released by the streamer on Thursday (April 2), two couples become linked, whether they like it over not.
The almost-haunting minute-and-a-half trailer begs the question — is Mulligan’s Lindsay happy with Isaac’s Josh. “I think deep down we always knew it was a temporary bandaid,” Mulligan says. When asked what it was a Band-Aid for, she adds, ”For the immense pain of knowing you picked the wrong person.”
Season two of Beef will follow an entirely new cast and unrelated storyline than the show’s first season, which earned eight Emmy Awards, four Critics Choice Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two Gotham Awards, two SAG Awards, along with several other guild honors. It’s safe to say the series dominated the 2023 and 2024 award season. The first season starred Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, who both won Emmys for their performance.
The second season will follow “a Gen Z couple [who] witnesses an alarming fight between their Millennial boss and his wife,” according to the season’s synopsis. “Newly-engaged Ashley Miller (Spaeny) and Austin Davis (Melton), both lower-level staff at a country club, become entangled in the unraveling marriage of their general manager, Joshua Martín (Isaac), and his wife, Lindsay Crane-Martín (Carey Mulligan).”
Seoyeon Jang rounds out the season’s list of series regulars. Award-winning Korean actors Youn 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 elitist club’s billionaire owner, Chairwoman Park (Youn), who struggles to manage her own scandal involving her second husband, Doctor Kim (Song),” the synopsis finishes.
Beef, hailing from A24, is created, showran and executive produced by Lee. Jake Schreier, Yeun, Wong, Mulligan, Isaac, Melton, Spaeny, Anna Moench, Kitao Sakurai and Ethan Kuperberg serve as executive producers for season two. The eight-episode season drops on Netflix on April 16.
Watch the Beef season two trailer below.
