Spoilers for the Beef season 2 ending ahead.
Three years after the first season of Beef landed on Netflix, the second installment of Lee Sung Jin’s revenge anthology has finally arrived.
Where season 1 focused on the beef between struggling contractor Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) and entrepreneur Amy Lau (Ali Wong), season 2 is about couple versus couple—and in some moments, partner versus partner. The result is an examination of romantic relationships that, like so many other zeitgeist-y films and TV shows in pop culture right now (The Drama, Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen), asks the question: How do you know if your partner is right for you? And how far would you go to protect your relationship?
The ambitious second season is set against the inner workings of a Montecito country club and the figures who keep it humming, from the ultra-wealthy new owner, Chairwoman Park (Youn Yuh-jung), to the frazzled general manager Josh (Oscar Isaac) and his interior designer wife Lindsay (Carey Mulligan), to two employees at the bottom of the totem pole, Ashley (Cailee Spaeny) and Austin (Charles Melton). To give the illusion of a real club for California’s upper crust, several celebrities make cameos as club guests, including Michael Phelps, Suni Lee, and Finneas O’Connell, all of whom play snobbish parodies of themselves. (Finneas also composed the soundtrack.)
Notably, Wong picked up several awards for her performance in season 1 of the dark comedy (a Golden Globe, an Emmy, a SAG Award—the list goes on). Based on the stellar performances from the quartet at the heart of season 2, it’s likely we’ll be hearing a lot about Beef in the run-up to the Emmys later this fall.
The eight-episode second season, which premiered on Netflix on April 16, features many unexpected twists and turns, some of which may have left viewers going, “Wait, what?” (Especially if you were second-screening during the subtitled Korean dialogue.) If that’s you, don’t stress—here’s everything that happened in the Beef season 2 ending.
What actually happens to Whoosh?
Whoosh (BM) is questioned by the South Korean authorities after the death of Dr. Kim’s (Song Kang-ho) plastic surgery patient. Then, after Ashley flags some suspicious spending at the club, Whoosh puts it together that Chairwoman Park is laundering money through the club in order to cover up Dr. Kim’s malpractice. With this information in hand, he goes to the Chairwoman to ask for a promotion within her company, hinting at his knowledge of the cover-up. The Chairwoman tells him that she will appoint him to a VP position, however, we soon discover she had no intention of actually following through on this promise.
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