Netflix confirmed today that Beef season 2 is officially moving forward. The new season of the critically acclaimed anthology series will star Oscar Isaac (Scenes From a Marriage), Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman), Charles Melton (May December), and Cailee Spaeny (Alien: Romulus).

Here’s the logline for Beef season 2: “A young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering chess moves of favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner.” The season will consist of eight 30-minute episodes. Lee Sung Jin returns to serve as creator, showrunner, and executive producer. Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, and Jake Schreier also executive produce.

The first season of Beef followed “the aftermath of a road rage incident between two strangers. Danny Cho (Steven Yeun), a failing contractor with a chip on his shoulder, goes head-to-head with Amy Lau (Ali Wong), a self-made entrepreneur with a picturesque life. The increasing stakes of their feud unravel their lives and relationships in this darkly comedic and deeply moving series.” The series has been picking up plenty of awards over the last few months, including eight wins at the Emmy Awards last month, including Outstand Limited or Anthology Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Yeun, and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Wong.

Our own Alex Maidy was one of those who loved the first season of Beef. “I can think of a few series that can compare with the amount of funny and tragedy in Beef while presenting two equally stellar performances from the lead actors,” Maidy wrote. “Steven Yeun and Ali Wong had already proven themselves talented, but Lee Sung Jin’s Beef elevates them to a new level. Beef is an incredibly engrossing series from the very first scene and is sure to have everyone talking when it premieres on Netflix. Beef is not the series I was expecting it to be based on the trailer, but it is so much better than I was hoping for.” You can check out the rest of Maidy’s review right here.

What do you think of the new cast for Beef season 2?

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Do Oscar Isaac (Dune: Part One, Moon Knight, Ex Machina) and Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, The Great Gatsby, Saltburn) have beef with one another? No, not exactly. According to Deadline, the duo is negotiating to star in Beef Season 2. While Netflix refused to comment about its status with the Emmy darling, it’s an excellent time to remind everyone that Netflix has not officially announced Beef Season 2. Deadline says the roles that Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan would play for Beef Season 2 were originally for Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, but momentum on them joining the series stalled. Meanwhile, the move to add Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny to the series remains a mystery.

Lee Sung Jin created Beef, which Ali Wong and Steven Yeun led. The show revolves around two people (Wong and Yeun) who let a road rage incident burrow into their minds and slowly consume their thoughts and actions. Their toxic relationship evolves into an all-out war with disastrous consequences. Beef received 14 Emmy nominations, winning 8, including the awards for Outstanding Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, Outstanding Directing for a Limited Anthology Series, Outstanding Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Ali Wong, and more.

Oscar Isaac is involved in several projects, including The King of Kings and In the Hand of Dante, which are each in post-production. Isaac voices Jesus Christ in The King of Kings, an animated story about Jesus Christ as told by Charles Dickens through the eyes of a child. In the Hands of Dante follows the dark and violent path of a man who plunges into a metaphorical hell until he reaches paradise in search of his forbidden and impossible love. The cast for In the Hands of Dante is madness, with Gerard Butler, Jason Momoa, Al Pacino, Gal Gadot, Martin Scorsese, and John Malkovich making the trek through the layers of Hell.

Elsewhere, Carey Mulligan is teaming up with Laika Studios for the upcoming stop-motion animated feature Wildwood. She voices Alexandra in the Travis Knight-directed film. The story is told from multiple points of view, and the book features more than eighty illustrations, including six full-color plates. In Wildwood, Prue and her friend Curtis uncover a secret world amid violent upheaval—a world full of warring creatures, peaceable mystics, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions. What begins as a rescue mission becomes something much greater as the two friends find themselves entwined in a struggle for the very freedom of this wilderness. A wilderness the locals call Wildwood.

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Netflix hasn’t officially pulled the trigger on Beef season 2, but when it does, it could come with a star-studded cast. According to Deadline, the new season will revolve around two feuding couples. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway are being eyed to play one of the couples, and Charles Melton (May December) and Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla) are being eyed for the other.

As it’s still early on in the process, Deadline admits that there are no deals in place yet but added that the scripts for Beef season 2 were recently turned in. Should everything move ahead, production on the new season could get underway by later summer or fall. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway have appeared together several times before, most notably in Brokeback Mountain and Love & Other Drugs, so it would be fun to see them share the screen again.

The first season of Beef followed “the aftermath of a road rage incident between two strangers. Danny Cho (Steven Yeun), a failing contractor with a chip on his shoulder, goes head-to-head with Amy Lau (Ali Wong), a self-made entrepreneur with a picturesque life. The increasing stakes of their feud unravel their lives and relationships in this darkly comedic and deeply moving series.” The series has been picking up plenty of awards over the last few months, including eight wins at the Emmy Awards last month, including Outstand Limited or Anthology Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Yeun, and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Wong.

Our own Alex Maidy was one of those who loved the first season of Beef. “I can think of a few series that can compare with the amount of funny and tragedy in Beef while presenting two equally stellar performances from the lead actors,” Maidy wrote. “Steven Yeun and Ali Wong had already proven themselves talented, but Lee Sung Jin’s Beef elevates them to a new level. Beef is an incredibly engrossing series from the very first scene and is sure to have everyone talking when it premieres on Netflix. Beef is not the series I was expecting it to be based on the trailer, but it is so much better than I was hoping for.” You can check out the rest of Maidy’s review right here.

Jake Gyllenhaal will next be seen in Road House, which will premiere on Prime Video on March 21st, but many believe that the film should get a theatrical release.

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The winners for this year’s SAG Awards have been unveiled, with Oppenheimer taking the guild’s top honor in the film category, while Cillian Murphy, Lily Gladstone, Robert Downey Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph all earned individual statues, putting each as the definitive frontrunner at the Academy Awards next month. On the television front, Succession and The Bear took home their respective ensemble awards. Going into the ceremony, Barbie and Oppenheimer led movies with four nominations apiece, while HBO’s Succession landed five.

Check out the full list of winners from the SAG Awards below:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

American Fiction

Barbie

The Color Purple

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer – WINNER

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Annette Bening – Nyad

Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon – WINNER

Carey Mulligan – Maestro

Margot Robbie – Barbie

Emma Stone – Poor Things

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Bradley Cooper – Maestro

Colman Domingo – Rustin

Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer – WINNER

Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple

Penelope Cruz – Ferrari

Jodie Foster – Nyad

Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers – WINNER

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction

Willem Dafoe – Poor Things

Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer – WINNER

Ryan Gosling – Barbie

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

Barbie

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

John Wick: Chapter 4

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – WINNER

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

The Crown

The Guilded Age

The Last of Us

The Morning Show

Succession – WINNER

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

Brian Cox – Succession

Billy Crudup – The Morning Show

Kieran Culkin – Succession

Matthew Macfadyen – Succession

Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us – WINNER

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

Jennifer Aniston – The Morning Show

Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown – WINNER

Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us

Keri Russell – The Diplomat

Sarah Snook – Succession

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series

Uzo Aduba – Painkiller

Kathryn Hahn – Tiny Beautiful Things

Brie Larson – Lessons in Chemistry

Be Powley – A Small Light

Ali Wong – Beef – WINNER

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series

Matt Bomer – Fellow Travelers

Jon Hamm – Fargo

David Oyelowo – Lawmen: Bass Reeves

Tony Shalhoub – Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie

Steven Yeun – Beef – WINNER

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

Abbott Elementary

Barry

The Bear – WINNER

Only Murders in the Building

Ted Lasso

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

Alex Borstein – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary

Ayo Edebiri – The Bear – WINNER

Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

Brett Goldstein – Ted Lasso

Bill Hader – Barry

Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Bear

Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso

Jeremy Allen White – The Bear – WINNER

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series

Ahsoka

Barry

Beef

The Last of Us – WINNER

The Mandalorian

As actors make up the highest percentage of voting AMPAS members, the SAG Awards tend to be a strong indicator of that season’s winners. In addition to these winners, Barbra Streisand was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. SAG-AFTRA made its biggest headlines last year during its 118-day strike, which, paired with the WGA’s, put Hollywood at a standstill.

What do you think of the SAG Award winners? Will the four core acting categories match up at the Oscars next month?

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The 81st Golden Globes were unveiled on Sunday, with Oppenheimer and Poor Things taking home top honors in their respective film categories, Succession and The Bear standing as the top TV winners and former Globes host Ricky Gervais and Barbie earning statues in the ceremony’s new categories related to stand-up comedy and box office achievement. You can see the full list of winners below!

Best Motion Picture – Drama

Anatomy of a Fall

Killers of the Flower Moon

Maestro

Oppenheimer – WINNER

Past Lives

The Zone of Interest

Best Picture – Musical or Comedy

Air

American Fiction

Barbie

May December

Poor Things – WINNER

The Holdovers

Best Director – Motion Picture

Bradley Cooper, Maestro

Greta Gerwig, Barbie

Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things

Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer – WINNER

Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon

Celine Song, Past Lives

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Bradley Cooper, Maestro

Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon

Colman Domingo, Rustin

Barry Keoghan, Saltburn

Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer – WINNER

Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario

Timothée Chalamet, Wonka

Matt Damon, Air

Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers – WINNER

Joaquin Phoenix, Beau Is Afraid

Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

Annette Bening, Nyad

Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon – WINNER

Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall

Greta Lee, Past Lives

Carey Mulligan, Maestro

Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple

Jennifer Lawrence, No Hard Feelings

Natalie Portman, May December

Alma Pöysti, Fallen Leaves

Margot Robbie, Barbie

Emma Stone, Poor Things – WINNER

Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Actor

Willem Dafoe, Poor Things

Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer – WINNER

Ryan Gosling, Barbie

Charles Melton, May December

Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Actress

Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple

Jodie Foster, Nyad

Julianne Moore, May December

Rosamund Pike, Saltburn

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers – WINNER

Best Screenplay

Barbie

Poor Things

Oppenheimer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Past Lives

Anatomy of a Fall – WINNER

Best Animated Feature

The Boy and the Heron – WINNER

Elemental

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Suzume

Wish

Best Non-English Language Film

Anatomy of a Fall (France) – WINNER

Fallen Leaves (Finland)

Io Capitano (Italy)

Past Lives (United States)

Society of the Snow (Spain)

The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

Best Original Score

Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things

Joe Hisaishi, The Boy and the Heron

Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer – WINNER

Mica Levi, The Zone of Interest

Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Original Song

“Addicted to Romance,” Bruce Springsteen (She Came to Me)

“Dance the Night,” Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt (Barbie)

“I’m Just Ken,” Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt (Barbie)

“Peaches,” Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond & John Spiker (The Super Mario Bros. Move)

“Road to Freedom,” Lenny Kravitz (Rustin)

“What Was I Made For?” Billie Eilish & Finneas (Barbie) – WINNER

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

Barbie – WINNER

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

John Wick: Chapter 4

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Oppenheimer

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Best Television Series – Drama

1923

Succession – WINNER

The Crown

The Diplomat

The Last of Us

The Morning Show

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Abbott Elementary

Barry

Jury Duty

Only Murders in the Building

Ted Lasso

The Bear – WINNER

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Brian Cox, Succession

Kieran Culkin, Succession – WINNER

Gary Oldman, Slow Horses

Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us

Jeremy Strong, Succession

Dominic West, The Crown

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama

Helen Mirren, 1923

Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us

Keri Russell, The Diplomat

Sarah Snook, Succession – WINNER

Imelda Staunton, The Crown

Emma Stone, The Curse

Best Actress in a TV Series – Musical or Comedy

Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary

Ayo Edebiri, The Bear – WINNER

Elle Fanning, The Great

Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building

Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face

Best Actor in a TV Series – Musical or Comedy

Bill Hader, Barry

Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building

Jason Segel, Shrinking

Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building

Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso

Jeremy Allen White, The Bear – WINNER

Best Supporting Actor – Television

Billy Crudup, The Morning Show

Matthew Macfadyen, Succession – WINNER

James Marsden, Jury Duty

Alan Ruck, Succession

Alexander Skarsgård, Succession

Best Supporting Actress – Television

Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown – WINNER

Abby Elliott, The Bear

Christina Ricci, Yellowjackets

J. Smith-Cameron, Succession

Meryl Streep, Only Murders in the Building

Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso

Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Beef – WINNER

Lessons in Chemistry

Daisy Jones & the Six

All the Light We Cannot See

Fellow Travelers

Fargo

Best Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film

Matt Bomer, Fellow Travelers

Sam Claflin, Daisy Jones & the Six

Jon Hamm, Fargo

Woody Harrelson, White House Plumbers

David Oyelowo, Lawmen: Bass Reeves

Steven Yeun, Beef – WINNER

Best Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film

Riley Keough, Daisy Jones & the Six

Brie Larson, Lessons in Chemistry

Elizabeth Olsen, Love and Death

Juno Temple, Fargo

Rachel Weisz, Dead Ringers

Ali Wong, Beef – WINNER

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television

Ricky Gervais, Ricky Gervais Armageddon – WINNER

Trevor Noah, Trevor Noah: Where Was I

Amy Schumer, Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact

Chris Rock, Selective Outrage

Sarah Silverman, Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love

Wanda Sykes, I’m an Entertainer

Going into the Golden Globes, Barbie and Succession both led their respective fields with nine nominations apiece. Oppenheimer would go on to be the night’s big winner with five Globes, while Succession led TV with four.

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Plot: Follows the aftermath of a road rage incident between two strangers. Danny Cho, a failing contractor with a chip on his shoulder, goes head-to-head with Amy Lau, a self-made entrepreneur with a picturesque life. The increasing stakes of their feud unravel their lives and relationships in this darkly comedic and deeply moving series.

Review: Beef is a series that seemed to come out of nowhere. The trailer, which debuted just a few weeks before this week’s series premiere, instantly buzzed around the internet. With a darkly comic sensibility, Beef appeared to be a hilariously twisted dive into the minds of two people who were contending with trauma, stress, and anxiety precipitated by a road rage incident. Having seen the entire ten-episode run of Beef, I can say that this series is much more than just a comedy. Thanks to stellar turns from stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, Beef is a look into the emotions and struggles everyone deals with daily but compressed into two similar yet completely different individuals living in Los Angeles. Beef kicks off immediately, never lets up, and will instantly become one of the year’s best series.

The trailers and the clip below center around the feud between Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) and Amy Lau (Ali Wong). When Amy blocks Danny from backing out of a parking space, their disagreement escalates into a road-rage chase that leaves both enraged. Danny, a struggling contractor living with his younger brother Paul (Young Mazino) and trying to make ends meet, wants to find the driver who flipped him off in the incident to avenge his lot in life. Amy, a successful business owner she is trying to sell, wants nothing more than to find happiness and balance in her life and takes out her frustrations as a boss, mother, and wife on the guy in the pickup truck. As each episode progresses, Danny and Amy vent their emotions from the almost accident while also discovering ways to face the things that truly make their lives miserable. It is a wonderful dichotomy to see these two people despise each other even though they have much in common.

As the tactics Danny and Amy use against one another spiral into more ridiculous extremes, the glimpse into their personal lives remains fascinating throughout the entire season. Danny wants badly to succeed and finds every imaginable obstacle in his way. Feeling out of control, Danny expresses his anger on his brother Paul while scheming with his recently paroled cousin Isaac (David Choe). While Danny tries complex ways to get back at Amy, he is deeply sad and struggling with his demons. Steven Yeun, who began his career pursuing stand-up comedy, has proven to be an incredible talent in everything from his breakout role as Glenn in The Walking Dead to his Oscar-nominated turn in Minari. Here, Yeun gets to exercise the comedic skills he honed early in his career and all of the dramatic weight this role demands. Yeun delivers a stunning performance here that runs the gamut of his range and is impossible to look away from.

Ali Wong, another comedic talent, has also stretched herself into a more dramatic arena beginning with 2022’s short-lived Paper Girls. Wong’s performance here blows away anything she has done on screen before as she balances Amy Lau’s personal and professional lives. On one hand, Amy is a successful career woman who wants badly to sell her business to investor Jordan Forster (Maria Bello) so that she can be a stay-at-home mother to June (Remy Holt), and reconnect with her artist husband, George (Joseph Lee). The road rage incident shows Amy that she may not be as happy as she tells herself, and her revenge tactics connect her more deeply than she was prepared for. Ali Wong gets to stretch her acting skills just as strongly as Steven Yeun and deliver some empowering and highly charged sex scenes. Wong gets to channel her comedy differently than we have ever seen, and it is stunning to watch.

Each hour-long episode balances Danny and Amy’s arcs and how they interconnect with one another, the stakes escalating with every subsequent chapter. Series creator Lee Sung Jin has a background predominantly in comedy, having written for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Outsourced, Silicon Valley, Dave, and the animated Tuca & Bertie. All of those series give him and his writing staff an edge to their humor and the ability to blend the darkness of funny moments and the searing dramatic elements to them simultaneously. While Lee Sung Jin directs one episode, the remaining nine are spread between Hikari (Tokyo Vice), who directs three, and Jake Schreier (Brand New Cherry Flavor), who directs the other six. The stories carry the presence of Asian-American culture, including Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, but the series never feels like an “Asian” story. This is a quintessentially American story about haves and have-nots that also benefits from pulling from a multi-ethnic backdrop.

Beef occasionally feels mired in the repetitive formula of Danny and Amy feuding back and forth with each other. Still, I cannot find anywhere this story could have been truncated. The ten episodes encompass a huge amount of character development for each protagonist individually and with each other before coming to a head in the final chapters. I can think of a few series that can compare with the amount of funny and tragedy in Beef while presenting two equally stellar performances from the lead actors. Steven Yeun and Ali Wong had already proven themselves talented, but Lee Sung Jin’s Beef elevates them to a new level. Beef is an incredibly engrossing series from the very first scene and is sure to have everyone talking when it premieres on Netflix. Beef is not the series I was expecting it to be based on the trailer, but it is so much better than I was hoping for.

Beef premieres on April 6th on Netflix.

Beef

AMAZING

9

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