Beef season two: Netflix’s spiky series confirmed for a second season

Hells yeah!

Netflix has officially confirmed there will be a second season of Beef, the road rage miniseries which swept the zeitgeist and the awards shows.

Beef, created by Lee Sung Jin, will return with another instalment and has cast as its leads, Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny.

The story will centre on two couples — the younger pair witness “an alarming fight” between their boss and his wife which sets off a series of moves involving a ritzy country club and its billionaire Korean owner.

The audacious Beef originally debuted as a miniseries but its undeniable critical and commercial success meant the concept was ripe to be expanded into an anthology show.

The first season starred Ali Wong and Steven Yeun as Amy and Danny, two Los Angelenos who, after a road rage incident in a hardware store carpark, end up in an escalating feud with massive consequences for them and those around them.

Boiling beneath the road rage were two people with anxieties brought on by their day-to-day lives which hadn’t lived up to expectations. Amy and Danny became each other’s nemesis, but what they were really railing against was modern malaise and the creep of existential dread.

Beef was an immediate hit when it premiered in April 2023. It went on to win a ton of awards at the Emmys, including acting gongs for Wong and Yeun, writing and directing for Jin, and limited or anthology series.

Season two will span eight episodes at 30 minutes each and Jin will serve as showrunner, as he did on the first. He is also an executive producer, alongside Wong, Yeun and director Jake Schreier.

Isaac is familiar to audiences for his work in the modern Star Wars trilogy as fighter pilot Poe Dameron as well as films including Ex Machina, Inside Llewyn Davis and Dune.

Mulligan had her breakout role in An Education, for which she was nominated for an Oscar, and went on to do Promising Young Woman, Shame and Mudbound.

Spaeny has had a busy 2024, releasing Alien: Romulus, Priscilla and Civil War. Melton was a regular on Riverdale but more recently was in the awards conversation for his breakout feature role in May December, portraying a character inspired by Vili Fualaau, opposite Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman.