What Do We Know About Beef Season 3?

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Lee Sung Jin’s hit comedy-drama is back today – but what does the future hold?

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After a three-year wait, the much-anticipated second season of Beef is officially streaming on Netflix from today – all eight episodes of it. And while season 1 centred on the squabble between Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) and Amy Lau (Ali Wong) that spiralled out of a road rage incident, season 2 is all about the tensions that can simmer beneath the surface of our relationships, occasionally let out through passive aggression.

Now officially an anthology series, at the centre of season 2, we have two couples: recently engaged Gen-Z pair Ashley (Cailee Spaeny) and Austin (Charles Melton), and their millennial counterparts Josh (Oscar Isaac) and his wife Lindsay (Carey Mulligan). They all work at a country club helmed by Chairwoman Park (Youn Yuh-jung), who herself is enwrapped in scandal with her second husband, Dr Kim (Song Kang-ho).

Created by Lee Sung Jin (aka Sonny Lee), across eight episodes, it’s a gripping yet laugh-out-loud funny psychodrama in which relationships are put to the test – both inter-couple and intra-couple.

So will there be a Beef season 3? Here’s everything we know so far.

Cailee Spaeny as Ashley Miller & Carey Mulligan as Lindsay Crane-Martin in Beef season 2

Beef Season 3: Plot, Cast, Release Date & More

If you binged all eight episodes of Beef season 2 and find yourself here looking for more, firstly, well done – that was a confusing, wild ride. Filled with hush money, blood money, money laundering and so much blackmail, what began as a rivalry between two country club couples – one in a position of power, the other desperate for health insurance – snowballed into a murderous affair with international implications.

Through all of this, series creator Sonny Lee asks questions about everything from trust and accountability to the viability of relationships under capitalism. In the end, in a reference to the very beginning of the series, Josh and Lindsay and Ashley and Austin’s positions are reversed: the former couple have separated, Lindsay pursuing a new life with a new partner and a baby in the countryside, while Ashley and Austin, against all odds, decided to go ahead and have a baby of their own, with Ashley now running the country club to boot.

Charles Melton as Austin Davis in Beef season 2

What Will Happen In Beef Season 3?

No news from Netflix just yet about whether Beef will be renewed for a third season; it will all depend on viewing numbers.

Oftentimes, if a show is not renewed quickly, we assume it will never happen, but Beef is evidence of the opposite: season 1 premiered in April 2023 to immediate acclaim, but Netflix did not renew the series for season 2 until a year and a half had passed, confirming the news in October 2024. Waiting gave Netflix time to see the critical as well as commercial success of Beef: season 1 bagged a whopping eight wins at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards, and a further three wins at the 81st Golden Globe Awards.

Ali Wong as Amy & Steven Yeun as Danny in Beef season 1.

If Beef season 3 gets the go ahead, we expect a whole new cast of characters, plus a new feud at the fore. When Sonny Lee set out to match the success of Beef season 1, he had a large task on his hands. Rather than attempt to replicate the magic of his first punt, though, he steered the show in an entirely new direction. There’s still that titular dispute at the core, but Beef season 2 has a different tone, style and narrative arc to season 1, and we would expect a similar shift moving into season 3.

Luckily, beef is all around us, and there are plenty of avenues Sonny Lee could go down.