April 2026 Release & First Look Images

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, this new Netflix Original series was produced by A24 Television stars 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.

The series received critical and audience acclaim, with excellent scores across the board on the aggregator sites.

RottenTomatoes Critics Score: 98%
RottenTomatoes Audience Score: 87%
Metacritic: 86/100
IMDb: 8.0/10

Beef is one of many great A24 titles available to stream on Netflix.

‘Beef’ Season 2 Is Coming To Netflix In April 2026

Beef Season 2 Netflix Renewal Status

Official Renewal Status: Renewed (Last Updated: 29/02/2024)

The renewal for the second season of Beef has been confirmed! On February 26th, 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.”

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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.

A teaser trailer for the second season has just dropped on YouTube.

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?

Development

Filming Scheduled

Filming Ongoing

Post-Production

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 by May 31st, 2025.