Beef took awards season by storm following its freshman outing on Netflix. After months of hypothesis that it will proceed as an anthology collection, Season 2 is formally a go at Netflix and beforehand rumored stars have now been confirmed.
As we look ahead to extra potential reveals and information, we’re breaking down all the pieces we all know thus far about Beef Season 2, under.
Who’s within the Beef Season 2 forged?
Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton & Cailee Spaeny (Credit score: Kirra Cheers / Sam Jones / Brian Bowen Smith / Dani Brubaker)
Inside Llewyn Davis stars Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan, together with Might December‘s Charles Melton and Priscilla‘s Cailee Spaeny, will star in Beef Season 2, Netflix introduced on Tuesday, October 22. And a day in a while October 23, 2024 it was revealed that Minari and Pachinko Oscar-winning star Youn Yuh-jung would additionally be a part of the ensemble.
Since then, it’s been introduced by Deadline that Seoyeon Jang, William Fichtner, Mikaela Hoover, and BM from the Ok-Pop group KARD would be a part of the ensemble that additionally occurs to function Track Kang-Ho.
Deadline teased in February 2024 that Melton and Spaeny had been being thought of to play one of many {couples} on the middle of the brand new chapter. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, who beforehand starred collectively in Brokeback Mountain and Love & Different Medicine, had been additionally rumored to play the opposite couple. Isaac and Mulligan’s castings had been teased in June, 2024.
What’s going to Beef Season 2 be about?
Right here’s the official description for the brand new season: “A younger couple witnesses an alarming combat between their boss and his spouse, triggering chess strikes of favors and coercion within the elitist world of a rustic membership and its Korean billionaire proprietor.”
Melton and Spaeny are the youthful couple, with Isaac and Mulligan because the boss and his spouse. Season 1 stars Ali Wong and Steven Yeun will function government producers, however it’s not clear at the moment if the actors — who every received Emmys for his or her performances in Season 1 — will likely be seen in Season 2. Because it’s an anthology collection, their onscreen returns are unlikely, however not not possible. Creator, showrunner, and government producer Lee Sung Jin returns in his earlier roles, and Jake Schreier additionally government produces, the collection, which is a Netflix and A24 manufacturing.
When does Beef Season 2 premiere?
A premiere date has not but been introduced, however Netflix shared on October 22, 2024 that Season 2 will likely be eight, 30-minute episodes. Netflix continues to be billing it as a restricted collection. Extra Season 2 particulars and data will likely be shared at a later time.
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Season 1 centered on the feud between Wong’s Amy and Yeun’s Danny, two people who turn out to be entwined after a highway rage incident. Season 2 goes to shift focus from Amy and Danny to 2 feuding {couples}.
When requested concerning the present’s future on the Emmys, Jin stated, “It might keep restricted — it was a really close-ended story for positive.” With that in thoughts, “If Netflix needed to proceed, it may be anthology. It might be many issues. It’s as much as the good algorithm. We’re all ready to listen to.”
When does Beef Season 2 begin filming?
Scripts for a second season have already reportedly been accomplished for submission at Netflix and A24 with a possible manufacturing begin deliberate for the autumn of 2024. Once more, with out official affirmation, that is merely rumored, per Deadline. However it will ring true to Jin’s practices as he instructed TV Insider across the Season 1 premiere, “My pitches are typically actually concerned… I attempt to depart as little to the creativeness as doable.” In different phrases, if Jin had Season 1’s plot in place earlier than presenting, that implies that Season 2’s supply will likely be comparable behind the scenes.
Keep tuned for the newest developments on Beef Season 2, and tell us your ideas on the present’s subsequent chapter within the feedback, under.
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