Credit: Netflix

Netflix recently rolled out the highly anticipated teaser trailer of BEEF season two, where the only question looming is: “Do you not want to make believe?”

The 43-second-long teaser doesn’t waste any time launching viewers into the “land of make-believe,” which is Monte Vista Point, a seemingly idyllic country club, where not only does the new season kick off, but it also introduces the bouts of the inciting incident.

In the preview of the latest BEEF instalment premiering April 16th, Monte Vista Point’s general manager, Joshua Martin, portrayed by Oscar Isaac, fresh off his Frankenstein stint, is seen explaining to his employee, Ashley Miller, the real reason the members come here – seeking a safe place and looking for an illusion.

Sure, they pay a high membership fee for golf, the courts, the exclusivity, and the discretion. But in reality, “people need a place where they can feel safe. Where they can pretend everything is OK.” Then again, even pretensions can only go so far, right?

So, even though Josh may pretend everything is fine at the club, by the end of the teaser trailer of BEEF season two, the same cannot be said about their lives within the four walls. Josh’s marital relationship with his wife, Lindsay Crane-Martin, is clearly crumbling, and the conclusive seconds of the clip show the two embroiled in an explosive fight.

But what was supposed to be a private matter to begin with remains far from that when Josh and Lindsay realise they aren’t alone. Another low-level employee at the club, Austin Davis, and his fiancée, Ashley, witnessed the entire exchange outside their window before vanishing into the woods after being discovered.

Similar to the first season’s inciting incident, the second season’s beef also has roots in creator and showrunner Lee Sung Jin’s life. It is loosely based on a couple of spat Lee witnessed at home. “We’ve all been seen at our worst in the privacy of our own home,” he says to Tudum.

So, in the second season, Sung Jin wanted to explore what really happens when domestic issues seep into workplace politics. “We wanted to change the feeling of this season’s beef to be a bit more passive-aggressive,” he explains. “It’s more about the internal repression of rage that you see in the workplace.”

Additionally, he wanted to address the generational differences between these feuding couples. Josh and Lindsay are clearly millennials, already years into their marriage, while Ashley and Austin have only begun their relationship. “We’ve seen a lot of ‘boomer versus younger couple’ stories in the past. We thought, ‘What if we actually made them a little bit closer in age and highlighted the generational divide between the millennial couple and the Gen Z couple?’”

While BEEF’s teaser trailer also introduces the audience to the club’s billionaire owner, Chairwoman Park, to dive deeper into that storyline, don’t forget to tune into BEEF on April 16th.