Warning: this article contains spoilers for Beef season two
After a long break, Netflix viewers can finally dive back into Beef, with season two now available to stream — arriving three years after the first season debuted.
What began as a one-off story has expanded into an anthology format, prompting some fans to draw parallels with The White Lotus.
Season one centered on Ali Wong and Steven Yeun as Amy and Danny, but the new chapter shifts focus to a fresh set of characters played by Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Cailee Spaeny, and Charles Milton — setting the stage for another intensely watchable on-screen conflict.
“Two couples get caught up in a feud of escalating lies and extortion after a cover-up for a tense domestic moment gets out of hand. This two-on-two feud eventually blows up with global consequences.”
Even though Beef season two only landed on Netflix on April 16, plenty of viewers are already tearing through the episodes — and anyone who’s reached episode five will know exactly why one particular coyote moment has become a talking point.
In the episode, Josh (Isaac) and Lindsay (Mulligan) are devastated after their dog — fittingly and amusingly named Burberry — goes missing. Lindsay searches relentlessly, only to hear Burberry’s cries as he’s attacked by a coyote nearby.
When she finally pushes through the brush to find him, she grabs the animal by the tail and slams it down in an over-the-top, wrestling-style move that’s as shocking as it is darkly comedic.
“Obviously there was no coyote,” she reassured us.
Mulligan went on to jest: “It was the closest thing I’d ever done to an X-Men movie where I had to pretend something was there that wasn’t.
“It was hard to pretend that there was a coyote there instead of a stuffed animal.”
“A certain points I was like ‘can you take it away?’,” the actress shared further.
“It was so distracting and ridiculous.”
She also explained that the scene was rooted in something the show’s screenwriter Lee Sung Jin — who often goes by Sonny Lee — had shown her while discussing the season.
“There was actually a video that Sonny had shown me where someone who had not gotten that physical, but had very heroically defended their dog from a coyote attack,” Mulligan recalled, adding: “It was a Ring camera of someone’s back garden.”
In the story, Lindsay’s bravery ultimately isn’t enough, and Burberry dies from the attack — a turning point that helps push Lindsay and Josh toward the decision to end their marriage.
Beef season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.