Following four Monte Vista Point Country Club employees, Beef season 2 not only examines generational divides and America’s broken healthcare system, but also fertility issues and the devastating fallout of impossible beauty standards.
Acting titans Carey Mulligan and Oscar Isaac play a jaded (and rather toxic) Millennial couple who run the club, while Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny appear as their Gen Z counterparts, blackmailing their elders to get ahead – both in work and in life.
As the complicated threads of respective lives start to cross over, the California country club, in particular, with all its trappings of wealth and status, becomes central to the plot – a standalone character, almost.
Indeed, the show opens with Josh (Isaac) and Lindsay (Mulligan) giving a speech at a glamorous event, the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean as their high-net-worth guests gather on the cliffside lawn, Champagne glasses in hand (a scene mirrored at the very end of the show).
And in time, we see the club’s pristine golf course, Spanish-style architecture (typical in SoCal) and Lindsay’s “colonial” interior design choices, as the pair show Chairwoman Park, a Korean heiress and the club’s new owner, around the estate.
When they’re not at the club, they’re in their laid-back, rustic Ojai home they share with their little dachshund, Burberry – a stark contrast to Ashley and Austin’s (Spaeny and Melton) set-up in their one-bedroom rented apartment complex.
Finally, the story winds up in Seoul, South Korea, as both couples get entangled in Chairwoman Park’s sinister plastic surgery scheme. The result? Well, let’s just say it doesn’t play out too well.
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