According to showrunner Lee Sung Jin, Beef was always meant to be an anthology. That makes a lot of sense in hindsight, as its first season explored the fullest extent of a road rage incident with its foot on the proverbial gas pedal. There was nowhere further for its central characters to go, because Lee — with help from Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier — already took them there. But there will always be more “beef” to explore, and so the writer-director duo has reteamed with A24 and Netflix to bring us a very different, but no less explosive, take on the term.
“We wanted the feeling of this season’s beef to be a bit more passive-aggressive,” Lee recently told Tudum. “It’s more about the internal repression of rage that you see in the workplace.”
