BEEF Season 2 Trailer: Watch New Video Of Country Club Drama

Sometimes, being “happily” married is relative.

The new trailer for BEEF Season 2 finds his two central {couples} — millennials Josh (Oscar Isaac) and Lindsay (Carey Mulligan) and Gen Zers Ashley (Cailee Spaeny) and Austin (Charles Melton) — meditating on one of the most important decisions an individual could make: choosing the “right” life accomplice. These seemingly private choices can result in explosive ramifications around the globe, as evidenced within the video above.

A man holding a golf club and a woman stand close together looking alarmed inside a dimly lit kitchen, viewed through a window with a crisscross frame.

From A24 and BEEF creator and showrunner Lee Sung Jin, the critically acclaimed, award-winning anthology series returns for its second go-round on April 16. Kicking off throughout the gilded cage of Ojai, California, Season 2 explores the trials of love throughout life phases and the mounting pressures marriage can create.

Woman lying in bed with a pensive expression, embracing another person whose face is not visible, dimly lit with floral bedsheets in the background.

“Each generation starts off thinking that they’ll never become what they see in the older generation,” says Lee. “But with the passage of time and the pressures of capitalism, each generation soon discovers why the older generations are the way they are.”

In the trailer for BEEF Season 2, we see low-level nation membership staffers Austin and Ashley, younger and, maybe naively, in love. Melton considers the newly engaged couple to be within the “honeymoon phase of a relationship” as they work collectively at Monte Vista Point. Adds Lee, “They think all they need is each other.”

A man sitting indoors on a floral chair by a window, hands clasped near his face, looking at someone off-frame. A desk with a laptop and large book or binder is in front of him, and trees are visible outside.

Woman with short blonde hair wearing a patterned jacket stands outdoors in front of a blurred background of autumn trees, holding a face mask in her hand and looking thoughtfully into the distance.

But when Austin and Ashley occur to witness an alarming battle between their boss, Josh, and his spouse, Lindsay, the younger lovers’ basis is examined for the primary time. Seeing an older couple whose romance has turned bitter is like seeing “the Ghosts of Christmas Future,” says Spaeny.

Isaac remembers that he and Mulligan spent a very long time contemplating their characters’ historical past. “What were they like when they were Austin and Ashley, in that phase of their life [in which] “the possibilities were endless?”

Three people standing indoors; a man in a green polo shirt holding a round yellow pillow, flanked by a man in black and a smiling woman in a white dress; ornate wall and lighting in the background.

Considering the shocking inciting incident then, it is shocking to search out Ashley and Lindsay sharing a poignant second confiding in each other within the trailer. But sudden alliances come up rapidly within the back-stabbing world of BEEF.

Sitting curbside within the lifeless of evening, Ashley asks Lindsay if she is glad in her marriage. Ashley is making an attempt to parse via what life along with her fiancé may appear to be, whereas Lindsay has the readability that may solely include hindsight. Lindsay tells Ashley that she carries an “immense pain” realizing she picked the unsuitable particular person as her life accomplice a long time earlier. “How did I not realize this sooner?” Lindsay impossibly asks Ashley — and, maybe, the reminiscence of her youthful self too.

A young man and woman stand close together outdoors at night, both wearing green collared shirts, sharing an intimate moment and looking at each other's hands, with blurred background arches suggesting a quiet, possibly romantic setting.

“The essence of [Josh and Lindsay’s] young love is faintly in the background, and they keep trying to grasp for it,” says Mulligan. “But their relationship has grown pretty contentious.”

The two {couples} aren’t the one characters concerned in this season’s BEEF although. In the trailer, we get a better take a look at Monte Vista Point’s new proprietor, Chairwoman Park (Youn Yuh-jung), a Silent Generation billionaire who’s navigating the struggles of her personal marriage to her boomer second husband, Doctor Kim (Song Kang-ho).

Older woman holding a phone stands in a garden near a pool, partially hidden behind palm trees, looking surprised or cautious. Lush greenery and tall trees in the background.

Man holding golf club on green golf course near water, with modern city skyscrapers and residential buildings in background on a cloudy day.

Two people sit apart on a modern white sofa in a spacious, stylish living room with large windows overlooking the ocean, while three others stand in the background both inside and outside near the sea.

Both of the central {couples} vie for the Chairwoman’s approval all through the season. They additionally work together with of us throughout the Monte Vista Point ecosystem, from workers like tennis coach Woosh (Matthew Kim, aka musician BM of KARD, in his performing debut) and the Chairwoman’s performer, Eunice (Seoyeon Jang), to rich membership members, like boomer Troy (William Fichtner) and his millennial spouse, Ava (Mikaela Hoover).

Two men sit facing each other in a dimly lit, cozy living room with modern decor, plush sofas, a round coffee table, fireplace, abstract art, lamps, and various decorative items, engaged in conversation.

Three women in elegant floral dresses sit on a patterned sofa in a well-lit, stylish living room with large windows and decorative wallpaper, creating a sophisticated, relaxed atmosphere.

A woman in tennis attire holds a racket while a man stands beside her with tennis balls on an outdoor tennis court, next to a basket of tennis balls, green steps and white walls in the background.

By the tip of the trailer, we’re left to marvel together with Ashley: Are you truly presupposed to be on the lookout for the correct unsuitable particular person to spend your life with? Can there ever actually be a proper particular person? And simply how a lot are you able to lose when you do not reply these questions accurately?

Decide for your self when BEEF Season 2 premieres April 16, solely on Netflix.