Beef Season 2: Release Date, Cast, Story, and Everything Else to Know

Season 2 of Beef  is moving on from the one-on-one battle we saw in Season 1. In the upcoming season of the Netflix anthology series about anger issues and the lengths people will go to be right, we're pivoting to a new and much more complicated interpersonal conflict, which seems to involve dueling couples competing for the favor of the billionaire owner of the country club where they work. We'd say we can't wait, but we've definitely been waiting not-so-patiently for quite a long time for this one.

The first season of Beef, which was created by Lee Sung Jin, saw Amy (Ali Wong) and Danny (Steven Yeun) cross paths when their cars nearly collided in a parking lot. Amy honked her horn and gave him the finger, and Danny, on his very last nerve, lost his mind and started a high-speed chase across Los Angeles — and that's before things really escalated.

Given the popularity of the first season and the eight Emmys it won, another round of Beef felt inevitable even if it was originally intended to be a limited series. Despite its popularity, though, it wasn't renewed for more than a year after Season 1 dropped, and Season 2 is still missing as 2026 begins. But the wait is almost over. Here's what we know about Beef Season 2.

Beef Season 2 release date

Season 2 of Beef will land on Netflix on April 16, 2026, just over three years after the first season debuted. 

Beef Season 2 trailer

If you were worried that Season 2 might be some sort of rehash of Season 1, you can relax. This trailer shows what looks like a much more complex scenario that involves significant class and generational dynamics, with a young, working class couple (Cailee Spaeny and Charles Melton) employed at a country club who catch their boss (Oscar Isaac) as he's pulling his arm back to smack his wife (Carey Mulligan) with a golf club. Making matters even more complicated will be the presence of an older, billionaire couple (Oscar winners Youn Yu-jung and Song Kang-ho), who actually own the club.

Beef Season 2 cast and crew

Lee Sung Jin is returning as showrunner on Beef Season 2 and, as mentioned above, Beef has been renewed as an anthology — this means that Season 2 will tell a fresh story about new characters rather than continuing on with Danny and Amy. While it's sad to see Yeun and Wong go, the Season 2 announcement came with a pretty star-studded new cast, headlined by Dune's Oscar Isaac, Saltburn's Carey Mulligan, Priscilla's Cailee Spaeny, Parasite's Song Kang-ho, and May December's Charles Melton. William Fichtner, Mikaela Hoover, and rapper BM will also appear in supporting roles.

Beef Season 2 cast:

• Oscar Isaac as Josh
• Carey Mulligan as Lindsay
• Charles Melton as Austin
• Cailee Spaeny as Ashley
• Song Kang-ho as Dr. Kim
• Youn Yuh-Jung as Chairwoman Park
• William Fichtner as Troy
• Mikaela Hoover as Ava
• Matthew "BM" Kim as Woosh
• Seoyeon Jang as Eunice

What's Beef Season 2 going to be about?

This new season will set its sights on a higher tax bracket than Season 1 did, with a new, country club-related beef. Netflix's synopsis goes like this: "A young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering chess moves of favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner." We saw that "alarming fight" in the trailer, which otherwise kept things pretty cryptic. But it looks like this is going to be a multi-pronged sort of beef where everybody ends up hating everybody, which should make for a satisfying spiral if Season 2 is as well written as Season 1 was.

Where to watch Beef Season 1

The first season of Beef is available on Netflix.