A-List Stars Can’t Save Emmy-Winning Hit’s Second Season

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There’s more beef in Season 2 of Beef, but to a greater extent than in its acclaimed initial season, it’s a weak catalyst for a story fixated on the sticky intersection of ambition, selfishness, love, contentment, and capitalism.

For his follow-up to his https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/beef-review-a-case-of-road-rage-makes-for-outrageous-tv/" rel="">Emmy-winning 2023 Netflix hit, creator/writer/director Lee Sung Jin refuses to merely duplicate what worked the first time around, instead charting the battle between two couples mired in a web of greed, anger, disappointment, and deception.

Buoyed by compelling lead turns from Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Cailee Spaeny, and Charles Melton, and yet undone by shenanigans that impart less than they aspire to, it’s a comic crime saga that demonstrates the difficulty of catching lightning in a bottle twice.

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