The following article contains spoilers for Beef, Season 2.
After what felt like months—nay, years—of very little watercooler TV, 2026 has already given us much to chew on: Love Story, Euphoria, and, now Beef’s highly anticipated and starry second season, which arrived on Netflix this week.
As we know, Netflix tends to make all episodes of a season available to stream at once, which is excellent news for those of us who like to close the curtains at 4:30 p.m. and settle in for an evening of uninterrupted viewing and miscellaneous treats. Indeed, that is exactly how I consumed Beef Season 2—an experience that brought me highs, lows, and questions, so many questions. In fact, by the end of it, I actually had more questions than answers.
Here are the 67 queries I was left with after binge-watching Beef Season 2 in its entirety.
- Why does Austin behave like that at 29 years old?
- Why is everyone always eating chips in this show?
- Why did Troy randomly morph into Josh while he was speaking to him?
- Who is Carey Mulligan’s hair stylist? Because they’ve done a really good job.
- How did that plastic surgery patient die from a single laceration to the face?
- That $20 million festival slash resort does look quite nice, actually?
- Why did Ashley call Josh a boomer when he’s very obviously an elder millennial (Gen X at a push)?
- Why did Austin give that random rude woman the red Gatorade?
- What was that whole Gatorade exchange about, anyway?
- Why was that blonde nurse so villainous?
- Actually, what was the purpose of that whole hospital episode?
- What’s with all the ants and flies in the show? Is it saying something about “society”?
- Where do they live, exactly, because I kind of want to live there too?
- Why did Ashley use her own very recognizable car to drive up to the house she was planning on breaking into?
- Speaking of which, how did she know the invoices would be in that bag? Why were they just lying there?
- Why did Josh frantically demand to see the neighbor’s Ring footage to find Burberry, only to not even look at it properly?
- Why did that shopkeeper toss Burberry’s missing posters in the bin like that?
- Why didn’t Lindsay confront the shopkeeper when she saw her toss the posters?
- Why did Lindsay stop and smile wanly at that older lady eating pumpkin pie?
- How did Burberry even reach the hiking trail with those tiny legs?
- Why are rich Americans so corny?
- What was the point of the whole Hot Chip scene?
- Speaking of which, why were there so many random cameos? Benny Blanco? Finneas?
- Why did Lindsay so readily agree to give up custody of Burberry II when she was obviously the more enthusiastic parent?
- Why would they draft a divorce post when they’re not famous? Do regular people do that now too?
- Why did everyone keep praising Austin as a physical therapist when he wasn’t even trained and presumably wasn’t that good?
- What gift did Lindsay bring to the kid’s birthday party that “inflates in the heat”?
- If it was an inflatable, then why did she inflate it before wrapping it up?
- Also, why did that kid at the party keep thwacking Lindsay so violently with that snake?
- Why was Josh just standing there in the doorway of the sauna with all his clothes on?
- Why did Josh think giving Austin psychedelic drugs would convince him to delete the video? Was there not a more straightforward, less convoluted way?
- Why did Troy suggest “differentiation therapy” to Josh when that’s actually a type of cancer treatment?
- So did anything actually happen between Eunice and Austin or not?
- What was Eunice’s whole deal anyway?
- Does Austin wear anything other than hoodies?
- Had Ashley never ridden a plane before?
- Why did Lindsay pretend to be an American woman called Megan?
- Why did Lindsay flush the phone down the toilet? What was she hoping to achieve?
- Wasn’t it a bit deranged for Chairwoman Park to have arranged all of her crimes from her own iPhone, anyway? Could she not have at least got a burner?
- Why was everyone always trying to make people drink other peoples’ bodily fluids?
- Why did Josh snort so much Valium? Couldn’t he have just taken it in pill form, like a regular person?
- Also why does Josh even need that much Valium? I get that he can probably only get it up for OnlyFans now, but he’s in his 40s, not 80s?!
- How did Troy get his hands on the shady invoices, anyway? Like, why would he be looking into that?
- Why are Lindsay and Austin so fixated on having children immediately? Don’t they have a few things to figure out first?
- Why are the random plot points in this giving shades of And Just Like That?
- Why did any of them think it was a good idea to travel to Seoul in the first place?
- Why did Austin stare at that cup of coffee for so long when they were at Trochos?
- Why didn’t anyone tell Ava that she probably shouldn’t be getting plastic surgery there?
- Why did Dr. Kim ask Josh to punch him?
- Why did Lindsay, Josh, and Austin run from the guards in the middle of the road, in full view? Couldn’t they have tried the backstreets?
- How did Josh find Lindsay on the streets of Seoul? Isn’t it, like, a massive city?
- Also what was he hoping to achieve by going to Seoul? What was he going to do, fight Chairwoman Park?
- How many takes do you think it took to get that fight sequence at the end right?
- So they just left Ava in Trochos? I suppose she was kinda mean.
- Was it ever explained why Ashley hid the USB stick?
- If Austin could escape so easily from the roof, then why could none of the others?
- So Austin went back to Ashley because Eunice didn’t say “I love you” enthusiastically enough?
- I get that Ashley has abandonment issues but is there not literally anyone else she could have had a kid with?
- Why did the whole thing turn into a caper by the end?
- Who was in the grave that Chairwoman Park was talking to?
- While we’re on the subject, why did they just call her “Chairwoman” throughout? What was her actual name?
- Why did Josh need to know where Lindsay lived?
- So Lindsay got pregnant pretty much immediately after Josh was arrested?
- Does anyone else wish this entire series was just focused on Carey Mulligan’s character?
- I kind of wish she could be a character on The White Lotus too?