A potential season two of Beef is looking at an insanely stacked cast
The award winning series from Netflix and A24 may go stratospheric in its second outing
It looks like Emmy-winning series creator Lee Sung Jin isn’t ready to squash his Beef just yet. According to Deadline, the A24-produced series—which keeps picking up award after award after award in the Limited Series category—may not be so limited after all. While nothing has been officially locked in as of this writing, scripts for a second season of the show are apparently either finished or close to finished, with Netflix looking to begin production in late summer or fall.
But while it’s easy to fixate on the fact that no one seems to know what the word “limited” means anymore, a look at the potential cast is a pretty nice distraction. Deadline reports that Charles Melton (May December), Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), Jake Gyllenhaal, and Anne Hathaway are all in talks to star in the show, which—if realized—is the kind of star-studded lineup that would kind of earn Lee the right to do whatever the hell he wanted for ten episodes.
From a very preliminary report, it seems like season two could be tentatively titled, Beef: Bring Your Spouse To Work Day. Early scripts apparently center around a feud between two couples, one played by Melton and Spaeny and the other played by Gyllenhaal and Hathaway. If season one is anything to go by, it probably won’t end well for anyone involved, as well as for some people who weren’t involved at all.
While it sounds like season two won’t involve any of the characters from season one (we’ll definitely miss Ali Wong, Steven Yeun, and all that mess), there will be some thematic similarities between the two. “At a surface level, the theme of Beef is always conflict, it’s always separateness. But separateness rears its head in so many ways,” Lee said of some of his early ideas for future storylines (via The Hollywood Reporter). “Season 1 was strangers, but separateness happens even in the most intimate of dynamics, at the workplace, in family… I think Beef will just by its title always have that simmering underneath, but in terms of what the other layers could be, that’s something that I’d really need to take some time and see deep inside what wants to come out.”