BEEF Season 2 Sets Spring Release Date — Plus, Everything Else We Know So Far

Springtime is the right time to fire up the grill for another slab of "BEEF."

Created, showrun, and written by Lee Sung Jin, Netflix's "BEEF" is an award-winning anthology series and dramedy that originally starred Ali Wong ("Tuca & Bertie") and Steven Yeun ("The Walking Dead") as two strangers whose involvement in a road rage incident escalates into a prolonged feud that ultimately takes over their lives. The show premiered in 2023 and went on to win eight Emmy Awards, four Critics Choice Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two SAG Awards, among others.

Season 2 has long been confirmed, but now we finally know when it will hit the streamer: The second helping of "BEEF" will be served Thursday, April 16. 

But that's not all! Scroll down to learn everything we know so far and check back later for more. We'll be updating this post as additional details emerge.

In October 2024, the anthology series added Oscar Isaac ("Scenes From A Marriage," "Inside Llewyn Davis") and Carey Mulligan ("Promising Young Woman," "Maestro") to its Season 2 roster. The actors will join Charles Melton ("May December," "Warfare") and Cailee Spaeny ("Priscilla," "Civil War, Alien: Romulus") in the series' highly anticipated return.

"It's some of the best stuff I've ever read," Melton told VMAN of his "BEEF" Season 2 role. "Yeah. I'm very excited. That's all happening soon."

"I cannot wait. I love that show so much and it's such brilliant writing," Spaeny told EW. "I am so excited to jump in."

Academy Award winner and "Pachinko" star Yuh-Jung Youn will also lay witness to Netflix's upcoming "BEEF." Youn will play a country club owner whose place of business becomes pivotal in the season's central drama.

Other supporting cast members include Song Kang-ho ("Parasite") as Dr. Kim, Seoyeon Jang ("Butterfly") as Eunice, William Fichtner ("Talamasca: The Secret Order") as Troy, Mikaela Hoover ("Superman," "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3") as Ava, and Musician BM, in his acting debut, as Woosh.

Details for Season 2 are scarce, but here's what we do know. In the upcoming season (which will be comprised of eight 30-minute episodes), "a young couple (Melton and Spaeny) witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife (Isaac and Mulligan), triggering chess moves of favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner," according to its official description.

"BEEF" Season 2 will hit Netflix Thursday, April 16 with all eight episodes.

There's no trailer yet for "BEEF" Season 2, but we'll add the video to this post as soon as it becomes available.

Lee was inspired to write "BEEF" by a real-life road rage incident he experienced with a white SUV in 2019. Though the scene wasn't nearly as dramatic as Danny and Amy's furious feud in the series, Lee felt the urge to follow the other car home after being honked and screamed at while sitting at a red light.

"I thought there was something interesting there, how we're all locked in our subjective world views, and we go around projecting a lot on the other person and not really seeing things for what they are," he told The New York Times.

Lee elaborated on the incident in another interview with Today. "I was like, 'I'll follow you.' I justified it [as] 'I'm commuting home and this person happens to be in front of me and if we go in different directions, I wouldn't follow them.' But we happened to be going the same direction home, for miles and miles. It was like 30-40 minutes. So I'm sure in his mind, it felt like I was just a wild lunatic stalking him."

In the Season 1 finale of "BEEF" (read our post mortem with Yeun and Wong here), Danny and Amy once again attempt to run each other off the road, culminating in both vehicles flying straight off a cliff into a remote desert. If that wasn't traumatic enough, Danny finds the still-armed Amy and pushes her off a steep embankment, leaving her for dead. But when the sun eventually comes up, they realize that in order to survive their predicament, they must finally work together.

Ultimately, the experience brings them closer in ways they never thought possible. But once they finally make their way back to civilization, Amy's husband George finds the pair and shoots Danny down before asking any questions.

When the scene cuts, Amy is by Danny's bedside at the hospital where she relives the last year of her life and the entire beef she had with this man she now very much cares for. She crawls onto the unconscious Danny's bed to cuddle with the one person she now feels closest to, hoping and wondering if he'll ever wake up again.

Season 1 of "BEEF" is currently available to stream on Netflix. It is comprised of 10 episodes which range from 30-39 minutes long each.