The Bear may be a series about a restaurant called ‘The Beef’ but Netflix also had a hit show called Beef about two feuding people played wonderfully by Ali Wong and Steven Yeun. Though the series was pretty much a well-contained story, it does seem that there is going to be a second season.
According to Deadline, Beef EP Lee Sung-jin is currently working on the second season of the show, and the story won’t be bringing back the characters of Danny and Amy. Rather, the second season is said to be focusing on two new feuding couples.
Though the casting isn’t solidified yet, it’s said that the four actors being considered for the part are Charles Melton, Cailee Spaeny, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Anne Hathaway. Melton and Spaeny had recently gotten the spotlight with films May December and Priscilla respectively, but Hathaway and Gyllenaal have already starred as a couple multiple times with Brokeback Mountain and Love & Other Drugs.
I’ll admit, I kind of wanted to see where Danny and Amy were going to go in the series, after the finale, but it does feel like the entire point of their ‘beef’ was already done. I can accept the series being an anthology of people just constantly feuding over each other in more spectacular ways every season.
Here’s the synopsis for the first season:
Two people let a road rage incident burrow into their minds and slowly consume their every thought and action.
No release date has been set for the second season, but you can catch the fantastic first season of Beef now streaming on Netflix.
