Netflix’s thriller anthology series Beef returns with a second season. The second season will have a new cast and a new storyline filled with gripping tension and drama.
For those who don’t know, Beef is a television series that explores the themes of anger, existential isolation, and the idea of maintaining a ‘happy’ facade. In the first season, we saw a feud between two strangers Danny Cho and Amy Lau. The feud started over a near car collision in a parking lot. The conflict sets the stage for us to view Cho and Lau’s deeper issues like depression, existential dread, and generational trauma. For season two we look at a different conflict, where a young couple witnesses a fight between their boss and his wife. The young couple are thrown into a world of conflict and deception where we will be exploring relationships and how they evolve over time. The trailer asks the question, “Don’t people say you shouldn’t be lookin for the right person, but actually the right wrong person?” Trailer shows that nothing will be held back where we see one of the characters behind a shattered glass window and another character running away from something or someone.
The cast consists of Mikaela Hoover (One Piece, Dead Giveaway), Oscar Issac (Frankenstein, In the Hand of Dante), Caliee Spaeny (The Ballad of Wallis Island, Spaceman), William Fichtner (Talamasca: The Secret Order, The Gettysburg Address), Song Kang-ho (Uncle Samsik, Cobweb), Youn Yuh-jung (The Wedding Banquet, Pachinko), Seoyeon Jang (Butterfly, Good Partner), BM (Emanero x BM x Onda Sabanera x Mario Luis: Ladrona, BM: Una más), Jason Her (Wylde Pak, Death Name), Dale E. Turner (Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, Leanne), Monica Garcia (Thick Skin, Shell), Fernada Andrade (Situations, What We Hide), Judy Kain (Matlock, You’re Dating Narcissist!), Charles Melton (Kevin, Warfare), Carey Mulligan (Spaceman, Maestro), and Greg Benson (I Was a Child Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story, Countdown),
The season is set to premiere on April 16, 2026. In the meantime, you can watch the first season of the show on Netflix in order to get caught up in time for the main event.