The first season of Netflix anthology series Beef was a masterful study in microaggression and escalation, with Steven Yeun and Ali Wong going to increasingly extreme lengths to one up each other after a road rage incident. But while the upcoming second season of creator Lee Sung Jin's show promises more conflict and cause-and-effect shenanigans, on one thing we all can agree: the cast for Season 2 is seriously stacked. Back in October we learned that Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton, Cailee Spaeny, and Youn Yuh-jung would lead the ensemble this time out — and now we're getting word that Parasite star Song Kang-ho is aboard for some Beef too.
Per Deadline's reporting, the regular Bong Joon Ho collaborator is the latest addition to Beef Season 2's cast, though his specific role in the show remains under wraps at this point. What we do know however is that this inbound sophomore season is set to centre around a young couple who witness a bust-up between their boss and his wife, leading to "chess moves of favours and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner." Now, far be it from us to speculate, but it seems reasonable to hypothesise that Melton and Spaeny may be the young couple, with Isaac and Mulligan as the fighting boss and wife and Kang-ho and Yuh-jung sitting at the head of the elitist country club's table.
Regardless of who's playing who exactly though, it's a hell of a line-up Lee Sung Jin's assembled here as he looks to capitalise on the success of an award-winning first season with an expansive, ambitious-sounding second one. And with the addition of Song Kang-ho in particular, a man who's no stranger to a spot of lacerating yet utterly magnetic social commentary, the showrunner has made a real declaration of intent. We look forward to seeing what Sung Jin and co are cooking up with Beef Season 2 whenever it gets a Netflix release date.