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“Beef” grills capitalism’s trap for women

The Netflix hit returns with the idea that at every level of a dog-eat-dog economy, women get chewed up first

Published April 23, 2026 1:30PM (EDT)

The following contains spoilers from Season 2 of "Beef," including the finale.

At Monte Vista Point, the country club setting for the second season of “Beef,” every familiarity is an illusion, a game of appearances that its general manager, Josh Martín (Oscar Isaac) and his wife, Lindsay Crane-Martín (Carey Mulligan), are experts at playing.

Josh pals around with the club’s impossibly wealthy members, serves them rare brown liquors and flies off with them to exotic locales at a moment’s notice. He and Lindsay pretend to be a happily married couple. In private, Josh shows more passion toward cam girls he patronizes online while Lindsay pines for the status she once enjoyed among Britain’s upper crust.

Meanwhile, low-level staffers like Ashley (Cailee Spaeny) and Austin (Charles Melton) carry out their plebeian tasks with grins on their faces and a bounce in their step, pleased as punch to be a part of such an exquisite slice of Montecito luxury. The club’s regulars would never guess or care how precarious the engaged couple’s lives are, with Ashley carrying the financial burden of their household while Austin, who works part-time as a fitness trainer, posts videos online.

To the club’s new Korean billionaire owner, whom everyone calls Chairwoman Park (Oscar winner Youn Yuh-jung), all of them might as well be ants. (Creator and showrunner Lee Sung Jin puts a fine........

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