‘Beef’ Review: Prime Performances by Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan Make for a Juicy Season 2 of Netflix’s Smash — Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny round out the central quartet in Lee Sung Jin's dark comedy about the escalating rivalry between two couples working at a country club.

It’s out? wtf didn’t know at all. Excited for Song Kang-ho

I'm loving it already.

Gonna watch right now

Oscar Isaac doing petty, escalating country club beef sounds like the most specific flavor of chaos. Netflix should really lean into episodic POV shifts between the four, perfect for simmering resentment.

Season 1 was shockingly well plotted and thematically rich. If they manage to scrape half the storytelling prowess of the first season into this one, I’ll be deeply impressed.

I have found myself loving Carey Mulligan recently after watching the Collateral series. Then watched the Netflix show with Ralph Fiennes and then watched Promising Young Woman. Something about her facial expressions is comforting in a way. Like I can imagine her as a real person in a room with me having the conversation I'm watching on the screen, if that makes sense. And not in a weird way. Anyway, I was hoping to see her in more series as opposed to on the big screen, so I'm excited to watch this. Hope she's great in it.

Is it already out? Loved the first season so I'd like to see how it compares to it .

I'm so down for this!

The 'I will watch anything Cailee Spaeny is in train' continues to roll...

It doesn't have the sense of humour the 1st season had.

Did not realise it was out. I actually deeply loved the characters in the first season of beef and was kinda hoping that they would keep it as Asian American actors and problems unique to Asian Americans as part of the plot and story. It's still lee sung Jin producing but was hoping for more options in acting for those communities

Loved the original!... I tried to scarf down more than one Burger King chicken sandwich in preparation... Couldn't do it sadly

Shout out for the Pachinko nod. Will probably skip this one, too much of a departure from s1.

I loved it!!!

Incredible performance by the two, top tier acting. I hope they each get an emmy.

From the comments im quite sure you guys dont know or have seen an anthology before so just for a lil nugget shows or movie under anthropologies contain usually the same timeline just different perspectives of everyone else’s world hypothetically s1 and s2 couldve been happening at the same time just. I personally think s2 is better than s1 the beef is deeper than physical they literally were all about to die so theres that. All the actors did fantastic and the breakdowns of everyones trauma really hit home. 10/10

Sad to see some less than stellar reviews. Hear it being called a white lotus clone this season

40% beef only, mannn season 1 was some other level beef and you dont come down from that ther'es always up!!! sadly here we came down a big notch.

Can somebody tell me how does it hold up compared to S1? Honestly I’ve been reticent watching it because I really enjoyed the focus on Asian American of the first season and I thought it gave such an unique vibe and lens to see that kind of story through (that Steven Yeun church crying scene is still one of my favorite because of that) But season 2 kinda feels more generic to me and like a d******* White Lotus. I hope I’m wrong and it’s still as good but idk. Would really love to hear people’s opinions.

Season 2 wasn’t terrible, but I prefer season 1. This season was a bit bloated plot wise for my liking.

I don't know if it's considered good writing or good acting, but the Ali character is so cringe that I can barely stand it. The clingy manipulation is at the max.

The actor who plays whoosh is not very good, though

wasnt jake gyllenhal supposed to be in this?

IGN gave it a 10!

Oscar has a magical vein on his forehead. Loved his monologue when he was tripping.

carey mulligan carried this show. she's acting circles around cailee

I have one criticism, without watching it yet, I don't like the fact they cast A Listers this year. I thought having working actors as the leads was a much stronger approach to the show.

I've watched the 1st episode so far and have spent over half of the time looking at my phone rather than watching the show its sooooo boring. It's not nearly as good as the 1st season. I hope the episodes start to get a hell of a lot better, or I definitely won't be finishing the season

I love it but I hate Lindsey

New cast and story 👎 i dont give a shit.

Watch it end in all of them having an o*** or some shit or them falling in love with each other's spouses 💀

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