“Beef” returns for its second season on Netflix on April 16.
Within the latest replace, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny are set to star as a younger couple working at a rustic membership who witness an alarming struggle between their boss and his spouse, performed by Oscar Isaac (“Frankenstein”) and Carey Mulligan (“Promising Younger Girl”). Oscar-winning actress Youn Yuh-jung (“Minari”) and Track Kang-ho (“Parasite”) are set to hitch the forged for the second season, which is able to function “chess strikes of favors and coercion within the elitist world of a rustic membership and its Korean billionaire proprietor.”
Produced by A24, the upcoming season will encompass eight 30-minute episodes, with creator Lee Sung Jin returning as showrunner and government producer. Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, who starred in and government produced Season 1, are again as EPs alongside Jake Schreier, Kitao Sakurai, Ethan Kuperberg, and Anna Ouyang Moench, along with Mulligan, Isaac, Melton and Spaeny.
Melton is thought for his function in “Might December” (2023), which earned him a Golden Globe nod, and his work on CW’s “Riverdale.” Spaeny additionally acquired a Golden Globe nomination for her breakout function as Priscilla Presley in “Priscilla” (2023), and starred within the dystopian thriller “Civil Warfare” (2024).
Season 1 of “Beef” adopted Danny Cho (Yeun) and Amy Lau (Wong), two strangers in Los Angeles whose lives turned dangerously entangled after a highway rage incident.
Initially a Netflix restricted sequence, the darkish comedy acquired eight Emmy Award nominations in 2023, taking house Excellent Restricted or Anthology Collection and appearing wins for Yeun and Wong.
The next yr, the present gained all three of its nominated classes on the Golden Globes, together with Finest Restricted or Anthology Collection or Tv Movie.
