(SeaPRwire) – What makes Beef stand out is that it never hesitates to cross lines and lean into transgressive themes. As Netflix’s top revenge thriller, it follows a cast of characters who give in to their very worst impulses: in the first season, a simple road rage incident blew up into a catastrophe of massive proportions. By moving this style of conflict to a quiet country club setting, the second season might seem more low-key on the surface — but in reality, Beef is going bigger, broader, and much sexier for Season 2.
Instead of following two vastly different drivers (and their put-upon families) through increasingly hostile acts of sabotage, director Jake Schreier and creator/writer Lee Sung Jin have adjusted Beef’s scope to center on three disgruntled couples, and the angry tangled web that connects all of them. Questions of class and power will remain a core focus, just as they were in Season 1. But as the show’s latest trailer shows, Season 2 is also a lot more sexually charged than its predecessor, turning the whole conflict into a psychosexual game of chess.
Netflix’s new promotional spot is keeping most details close to the chest, holding back the majority of plot points beyond what has already been revealed. The titular feud kicks off when newly engaged employees Ashley (Cailee Spaeny) and Austin (Charles Melton), who work at a local country club, stumble on their boss Josh (Oscar Isaac) in an all-out brawl with his wife Lindsay (Carey Mulligan). But the pair get caught snapping a photo of the fight at its most heated… and that is when the power games begin.
Even so, the latest trailer digs deeper into the simmering frustrations that ignite their feud. Across a rapid stream of out-of-context shots, Lindsay admits that her outwardly happy marriage feels more like “a temporary band-aid” than a real partnership. While she and Josh are bound together by the “immense pain” of picking the wrong life partner, Ashley and Austin are still enjoying a prolonged honeymoon phase.
That all changes, of course, after the inciting incident, which opens the floodgates for all sorts of temptation and infidelity. Lindsay is caught staring longingly at Woosh (K-pop star BM), the son of Chairwoman Park, portrayed by Youn Yuh-jung. (Park’s ongoing conflicts with her second husband, played by Parasite’s Song Kang-ho, make up the third side of this unhappy tangled triangle.) Austin, meanwhile, guides a client (Seoyeon Jang) through a very sensual stretching session. And there is plenty more layered into the story: Lee named erotic thrillers like The Handmaiden, and domestic dramas including Revolutionary Road and Phantom Thread, as inspirations for this season of Beef. How all of these influences will mix with Lee’s other creative references — like Burn After Reading and The Informant! — only makes anticipation for Season 2 that much higher.
Beef Season 2 arrives on Netflix on April 16.
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