'Beef' Season 2 Just Started Filming, Carey Mulligan Confirms
Minor spoilers for Beef season 1 below.
Hungry for more Beef? You’re in luck. The series, which starred Ali Wong and Steven Yuen, premiered on Netflix in the spring of 2024, but creator and showrunner Lee Sung Jin has a vision for the show to continue—just not in the way you might expect.
In its 10-episode first season, the dark comedy followed Amy Lau (Wong), a successful entrepreneur, and Danny Cho (Yuen), a contractor, after they face off in a tense road rage incident. In the aftermath of the confrontation, their anger continues to consume them both, taking over of their lives, families, and businesses in the process. But even with that particular beef resolved—sort of—we could always go for a second helping.
Will there be a season 2 of Beef?
While rumors and reports had been swirling for a while, Netflix officially announced a season 2 renewal on in October 2024. The next season will contain eight 30-minute episodes, focusing on a new storyline and characters.
“Cards on the table, we did pitch this show as a limited anthology, so there is sort of a close-ended-ness to the story [of Danny and Amy],” Lee told ELLE.com in 2023. “But, if given the opportunity, of course, I’d love to explore them further, because Danny and Amy, I love those characters. But yeah, by design, though, this a close-ended narrative.”
At the 2024 Golden Globe Awards 7, Jin spoke further with Deadline about a potential season 2.
“We always pitched the season to buyers as an anthology series. There was always going to be new characters,” he said. “Whether it stays limited or turns as an anthology or we continue existing, that’s really up to Netflix. But whatever they decide, I’m definitely ready.”
What would season 2 be about?
According to Netflix’s Tudum: “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.”
Lee previously told ELLE.com that, in his initial pitch for the show, there were “multiple other beefs and other character types to explore.”
Deadline reported on February 26 that a potential season 2 premise was already taking shape, focusing on “two feuding couples.” Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny would star as one pair, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway in talks for the other. But a follow-up piece, also by Deadline and published on June 21, revealed that the Gyllenhaal and Hathaway plans “ultimately did not come to fruition.” Oscar Isaac and Carrie Mulligan were then in negotiations for the roles.
Who is in the Beef season 2 cast?
Netflix confirmed those previous reports: Oscar Isaac, Carrie Mulligan, Charles Melton (May December), and Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla) will star in Beef season 2. The streamer also announced that Korean megastars Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari, Pachinko) and Song Kang-ho (Parasite) are also in the cast.
Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton, and Cailee Spaeny will star in the next installment of creator Lee Sung Jin's critically acclaimed anthology series, BEEF.
A young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering chess moves and… pic.twitter.com/q6o4Cvbxv2— Netflix (@netflix) October 22, 2024
While Wong and Yeun aren’t reprising their roles, they will continue to serve as executive producers.
Other cast members include Seoyeon Jang (Butterfly), William Fichtner (Prison Break, Crash), Mikaela Hoover (Superman, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) and BM, rapper and member of the K-pop group KARD, who’ll make his acting debut, according to Deadline.
Has Beef season 2 started filming yet?
On January 25, Mulligan confirmed to Variety that production on season 2 “just started” and “almost everything [is different].” She added, “But it’s still [creator Lee Sung Jin] being brilliant. It’s a completely new story and if I say anything else then a laser beam will appear on my head. But it’s very exciting.”
Could the show run for even more seasons?
Lee told Rolling Stone that he has ideas cooking for up to a potential third season. Although Danny and Amy’s narrative is complete, “there are a lot of ideas on my end” for it to keep going, he explained. “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.”
On the Emmys red carpet in January 2024, Lee told Variety, “I feel like there are so many paths. It could stay limited—it was a very close-ended story for sure. But if Netflix wanted to continue, it could also be anthology.”
“It could be many things. It’s up to the great algorithm. We’re all waiting to hear,” he added.
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