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Netflix has officially announced the cast for the second season of its hit comedy-drama Beef, and also revealed some juicy plot details in the process.

The core cast will consist of Hollywood stars Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Cailee Spaeny, and Charles Melton. The announcement confirmed rumours from earlier this year which linked Isaac and Mulligan to leading roles in the highly-anticipated series, as well as further reports from July that claimed Spaeny and Melton were also attached to the project.

The streaming giant stated that the second season will consist of eight episodes, each lasting 30 minutes. Lee Sung Jin will return as creator, showrunner, and executive producer, and Netflix will team up with A24 again on the series. Jake Schreier is also listed as an executive producer, as are season one stars Ali Wong and Steven Yuen.

The season’s official synopsis reads: “A young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering chess moves of favours and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner.”

At this stage, there has been no confirmation regarding when the shoot would begin or where the season would be filmed. However, previous unnamed sources had suggested production would start in Q1 2025, with the cast and crew supposedly shooting in Los Angeles and South Korea.

Was a second season of ‘Beef’ only a matter of time?

Beef’s first season was such a resounding critical and commercial success that many fans felt a second season was a foregone conclusion – despite the first season being advertised as a limited series. It was a sensation on the awards circuit, winning eight Emmys, four Critics Choice Awards, and three Golden Globes, among many other accolades. Audiences also lapped it up, with the first season staying in the Netflix top ten for five weeks while racking up 33.7million views.

At the Emmys, Lee had been open about wanting to do a second season, but he admitted it was in Netflix’s hands. He said, “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.”

The first season was based on Lee’s personal experience of road rage, when the driver of a black BMW honked its horn at him, cursed him out, and then drove away before he could respond. He admitted on an SXSW panel, “For some reason on that day, I was like, ‘I’m going to follow you.'” There has been no word yet on whether season two will also be drawn from real life, though.