‘Beef’ Season 2 Review: Bigger Is Actually Better in Lee Sung Jin’s Searing Netflix Sequel

‘Beef’ Season 2 Review: Bigger Is Actually Better in Lee Sung Jin’s Searing Netflix Sequel

Early in “Beef” Season 2, a distracted driver and his fiancée almost slam into another car at an intersection. The couple immediately apologizes, mouthing “I’m sorry” and waving to the other driver to go ahead. But the other driver is also apologizing, and he also wants to cede the right of way. So both cars lurch forward, both cars brake, and they’re back where they started. “I shouldn’t have gone,” Austin (Charles Melton) says to Ashley (Caile…

TV Review: Beef – Season 2

Originally conceived as a miniseries, showrunner/writer/creator Lee Sung Jin’s Beef was a major surprise—and big Emmy winner—back in 2023. Three years later, Jin follows up his compact story of road rage anger issues with a searing take on two entirely different types of romantic relationships. Coming into center focus are newly engaged Gen Z couple Austin (Charles Melton) and Ashley (Cailee Spaeny) and toxic long-married Millennials, Josh (Osca…