Trailer, Release Date & Everything You Need to Know

Beef. (L to R) Oscar Isaac as Josh Martin, Carey Mulligan as Lindsay Crane-Martin in episode 201 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Lee Sung Jin’s critically acclaimed and eight Primetime Emmy Award-winning series, Beef, is returning for a second season with a brand new cast on April 16, 2026. Netflix has released first-look images and a brand-new teaser trailer for the second season. Here’s everything we know so far.

Created by Lee Sung Jin, the first season, released in April 2023, was produced by A24 Television (one of many great A24 titles they’ve produced for Netflix), starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, with their characters going toe-to-toe with each other over the course of 10 episodes following a road rage incident that triggers a petty rivalry. It received countless awards and high audience and critics’ scores, but initially was conceived as a limited series… 

When was Beef renewed for season 2 at Netflix?

The renewal for the second season of Beef has been confirmed! On February 26th, 2024, the news broke that Beef creator Lee Sung Jin was eyeing up the cast for the second season. Given how well Beef was praised by audiences and critics and rewarded with eight Primetime Emmys, including the Outstanding Limited Series or Anthology Series award, it’s no surprise that Netflix has greenlit a new season.

Backstage at the Emmys, Lee Jung-sin hinted at the future of Beef on Netflix, “I feel like there are so many paths. It could stay limited; it was a very close-ended story for sure. But if Netflix wanted to continue, it could also be an anthology. It could be many things. It’s up to the great algorithm. We’re all waiting to hear.”

South Korean director Lee Sung Jin poses in the press room with the Outstanding Writing For A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie and Outstanding Limited Or Anthology Series awards for “Beef” during the 75th Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at L.A. Live in Los Angeles on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Robyn BECK / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

When is Beef season 2 coming to Netflix?

It was already confirmed in Netflix’s 2026 line-up that Beef season 2 is coming on April 16, 2026.

The first teaser trailer for the second season dropped in early March, and just two weeks before it’s big release, the full official trailer landed: 

What can we expect from the second season of Beef?

Netflix has dropped a detailed synopsis for Beef season 2:

“BEEF returns with a new cast and a new “beef,” as a Gen-Z couple witnesses an alarming fight between their Millennial boss and his wife. Newly-engaged Ashley Miller (Cailee Spaeny) and Austin Davis (Charles Melton), both lower-level staff at a country club, become entangled in the unraveling marriage of their General Manager, Joshua Martín (Oscar Isaac), and his wife, Lindsay Crane-Martín (Carey Mulligan). Through favors and coercion, both couples vie for the approval of the elitist club’s billionaire owner, Chairwoman Park (Youn Yuh Jung), who struggles to manage her own scandal involving her second husband, Doctor Kim (Song Kang Ho).”

Who are the cast members of Beef Season 2?

Multiple names have been confirmed to star in the second season of Beef: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton, Cailee Spaeny, and Yuh-Jung Youn.

Picture: Cailee Spaeny, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton, and Cailee Spaeny

Cailee Spaeny has had a busy couple of years thanks to starring in some popular films such as Alien: Romulus, Civil War, and Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla. Charles Melton is arguably best known for his role as Reggie Mantle on Riverdale and for starring as Rafe in Bad Boys for Life and Joe Yoo in May December.

Oscar Isaac has been one of the busiest actors in Hollywood thanks to starring in franchises such as Star Wars, Dune, and X-Men. Carey Mulligan recently starred in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, where she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.

Lastly, Youn Yuh-jung has also been cast, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Minari.

Picture: Youn Yuh-jung at the 2021 Academy Awards

The remainder of the cast is as follows:

• Seoyeon Jang plays Eunice.
• Song Kang-Ho plays Dr. Kim.
• William Fichtner plays Troy.
• Mikaela Hoover plays Ava
• BM plays Woosh.

What is the production status of Beef Season 2?

Carey Mulligan, while attending Sundance, spoke with Variety’s Tatiana Siegel at VarietyStudio, where she revealed filming is now underway. “We just started. Almost everything [is different]. But it’s still [creator Lee Sung Jin] being brilliant. It’s a completely new story, and if I say anything else, then a laser beam will appear on my head. But it’s very exciting.”

Filming lasted for four months and ended on May 31st, 2025.

What is the episode count? Will there be a Beef season 3?

Netflix is referring to season 2, once again, as a limited series. Meaning these characters will have their stories told in full throughout the course of the eight confirmed episodes. 

On the writing team for this season. Lee Sung Jin, who served as sole writer on Episode 1 and collaborated with Anna Ouyang Moench and Gene Hong on Episode 3, Anna Ouyang Moench on Episodes 2 and 8, Madeleine Pron on Episode 4, Ethan Kuperberg on Episode 5, Anna Ouyang Moench and Alex Russell on Episode 6, and Carrie Kemper and Niko Gutierrez-Kovner on Episode 7.

Episode titles for this season, in alphabetical order (for now) are:

• A New Starting Point for Further Desires
• All the Things We’re Never Going to Have
• I am Killing My Flesh Without It
• It Will Stay This Way and You Will Obey
• Oh, the Comfort, the Inexpressible Comfort
• Perfectly Safe From All the Dangers and Perturbations
• The Hour of Separation
• Those Blue Remembered Hills

First Look Photos for Beef season 2

Beef. Carey Mulligan as Lindsay Crane-Martin in episode 201 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. (L to R) Charles Melton as Austin Davis, Seoyeon Jang as Eunice in episode 202 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. (L to R) Mikaela Hoover as Ava, Matthew Kim as Woosh in episode 201 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. (L to R) Amanda Rea as Becca, Mikaela Hoover as Ava, Stevie Nelson as Claire in episode 202 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. (L to R) Charles Melton as Austin Davis, Seoyeon Jang as Eunice in episode 203 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Here’s the first batch of first looks that dropped in early March: 

Beef. (L to R) Jason Jin as JB, Youn Yuh-jung as Chairwoman Park, Seoyeon Jang as Eunice in episode 201 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. Charles Melton as Austin Davis in episode 201 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. (L to R) Charles Melton as Austin Davis, Cailee Spaeny as Ashley Miller in episode 201 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. Song Kang-ho as Dr. Kim in episode 202 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. (L to R) Charles Melton as Austin Davis, Cailee Spaeny as Ashley Miller, Carey Mulligan as Lindsay Crane-Martin, Oscar Isaac as Josh Martin in episode 202 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. (L to R) Carey Mulligan as Lindsay Crane-Martin, Matthew Kim as Woosh in episode 202 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. Seoyeon Jang as Eunice in episode 202 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. Carey Mulligan as Lindsay Crane-Martin in episode 202 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. William Fichtner as Troy in episode 202 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. Cailee Spaeny as Ashley Miller in episode 203 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

Beef. (L to R) Cailee Spaeny as Ashley Miller, Carey Mulligan as Lindsay Crane-Martin, Mikaela Hoover as Ava in episode 206 of Beef. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

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