BEEF Season 2: Everything We Know So Far

Netflix is cooking up a fresh slab of BEEF.

Created, showrun and written by Lee Sung Jin, BEEF is an award-winning anthology series and dramedy. Season 1 stars 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.

Aside from Wong and Yeun, Season 1 also stars Joseph Lee (Star Trek: Picard), Young Mazino (Fish Bones), David Choe (Violent Blue) and Patti Yasutake (Star Trek: The Next Generation). Maria Bello (NCIS) and Ashley Park (Emily in Paris) appear in recurring roles.

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.

Yes. Netflix confirmed the long-rumored second season in a press release after a couple cast members spilled the beans in interviews. While Lee was originally keeping his options open and uncertain whether Wong and Yeun would return, the decision was made to make the series an anthology and leave Amy and Danny's story behind.

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.

Details for Season 2 are scarce, but here's what we do know. In the upcoming season (which will be comprised of eight 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 does not currently have a release date, but when it does, we'll update this post with the news.

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.