The follow-up season to Netflix\u2019s hugely successful Beef <\/em>wiped the slate clean and started fresh. The latest entry features a whole new cast, a whole new storyline (split between California and South Korea), and, of course, new beef\u2014just not as we knew it before.<\/p>\n Blending themes from The White Lotus<\/em> and Parasite<\/em>, Beef <\/em>season 2 is a captivating watch that you will want to finish in one sitting. Plus, the four leads deliver incredible performances. Carey Mulligan and Oscar Isaac star as Lindsay and Josh, respectively. They\u2019re a pretentious, cynical older couple who run a country club in Montecito, California. Meanwhile, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny costar as Austin and Ashley\u2014Josh\u2019s employees at the club who are younger, naive fianc\u00e9es. Youn Yuh-jung joins later as the ruthless new owner, Chairwoman Park, while Seoyeon Jang\u2019s Eunice, her stressed assistant, also gives a stand-out performance.<\/p>\n By the end of the eight-part season\u2014written by creator Lee Sung Jin\u2014Beef<\/em> moves from a high-octane thriller to finish on a surprisingly spiritual note. Season 2 seems to suggests that whatever happens in life is cyclical\u2014from the lies we tell our significant others to the pain we accidentally (or intentionally) cause them\u2014and we all ultimately end up the same way. It all comes together as the camera pulls out on the final shot of the series, which depicts the samsara, known as \u201cthe wheel of life.\u201d But what does it mean? Let’s break it down the ending of Beef <\/em>season 2.<\/p>\n Do Josh and Lindsay stay together?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n Austin initially seems like he’s set to be the man of the hour. The young couple possess the means to take down Chairwoman Park with the documents on their USB, but the device goes missing. Ashley reveals that she\u2019s pregnant and is scared that Austin will leave her for Eunice if he runs off with the USB. But after Austin comes clean about their relationship, Ashley admits that she took the USB after all.<\/p>\n So, Austin escapes Park\u2019s trap and jumps in a taxi, calling Eunice to meet her at a police station with the device. Then, he suddenly changes his mind and the smile is slowly wiped from his face. Why?<\/p>\n From Austin\u2019s phone call with Eunice, it seems he jumped too quickly into a new relationship. He told Eunice that he loved her right away, and this time, she said it back. It\u2019s possible that Austin recalled when Ashley told him that it was too soon to know if he loved Eunice, or perhaps he could see that he was continuing the cycle of entering another similar co-dependent relationship. (We also never really find out if Eunice was playing with Austin\u2019s feelings just to use him to escape her terrifying situation.) So, Austin chooses the devil he knows and returns to Ashley.<\/p>\n His choice points back to Chairwoman Park’s earlier nihilistic point: that capitalism supersedes everything in society as a system, and love only exists as part of this system. Selfishness essentially trumps everything else. So, by returning to Ashley and giving the USB to Chairwoman Park to cover up the murder and her embezzlement, Austin essentially chooses money, wealth, and status over love and morals.<\/p>\n Sadly, Dr. Kim (Song Kang-ho) doesn\u2019t survive to see the end of the series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n Following an eight year time jump, Ashley and Austin are now the general managers of the Monte Vista Point Country Club. They are direct replicas of where Lindsay (Mulligan) and Josh (Isaac) are in the beginning of the season, and the shot of them at the club is is almost beat-for-beat the same introduction from episode 1. They even arrange to go on the same double date, at the same restaurant, with Troy and Ava.<\/p>\n The one difference is their son, Ashton (a twee amalgamation of their names)\u2014though viewers may wonder how they managed this with Austin’s hand-sanitizer-esque sample. But once Ashley and Austin enter their car to leave, they starts bickering. At the start of the series, they were love’s young dream. By the end, due to their own grasping and scheming, it looks like all the love has gone. All that remains is the trappings of their illegally-gotten success. Chairwoman Park was right. The system always wins, and now it’s claimed another couple.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Josh took the rap for the embezzlement. He\u2019s sorting out ciggies and nail clippers for the other convicts in prison. When he\u2019s finally freed, he’s told that\u2014despite her saying she would wait for him\u2014Lindsay has moved on to start a new family. But whether it was the life-changing hit of bufo or prison-led enlightenment, Josh says that he doesn’t need to know where she lives now. He gives a TV interview about his release and says that he\u2019s \u201cjust really glad everyone I love is happy\u201d while looking directly into the camera.<\/p>\n Speaking of Lindsay, she’s tuning in to the interview from the bathroom of her new house. It\u2019s decorated again in that cheap style she loves, with the wallpaper that reminds her of the doodles her brother did before writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Lindsay now has an English husband and a daughter. Perhaps they’re back in England now, as they offer her a decidedly un-Montecito snack of sausage rolls. She seemingly has everything she wants now, right? Well, she’s left looking a bit forlorn, presumably thinking back to her former love, Josh, and all they went through.<\/p>\n Then, to the strains of Phoenix’s “Love Like A Sunset,” we end with a quick visit with Chairwoman Park. Of course, she’s gotten away with everything scot-free. But buried beneath that cool, murderous exterior, we do see she has a bit of a heart. She visits the grave of her first husband\u2014not Dr. Kim, whose murder was framed as suicide\u2014and she tells him she’s full of regret. Poetically, she says: “Even all the money in the world cannot buy us time, ever passing. Seasons, ever changing this great, even beautiful cycle of life, which leaves us no choice but to accept it gladly.” Time marches on\u2014no matter how much money is thrown at it, or how much of it was filled with great acts of love.<\/p>\n The final scene pulls out to reveal a circle that is separated into sections, containing previous scenes from the series: Ashley and Austin chilling on some sun loungers; Josh and Lindsay arguing with each other. It resembles a samsara, from Buddhist and Hindu religions, with the different sections reflecting the universe and the stages of life. At its center is death\u2014specifically the death of Chairwoman Park’s first husband\u2014but there’s life all around it. The symbol seems to reflect that relationships, however they develop, are cycles that all end the same way.<\/p>\n As the credits roll, the sound of buzzing insects is heard, following the motif of insects that runs throughout the series. The insects work as one, in harmony, and that’s what keeps the universe ticking. Does the outro suggest that humankind should start practicing more of a hive-mind for unity too? It\u2019s another example of the war between the individual and the collective at play in Beef <\/em>season 2. Of course, there\u2019s no answer. It\u2019s the universe\u2019s own, never-ending beef.<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.esquire.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The follow-up season to Netflix\u2019s hugely successful Beef wiped the slate clean and started fresh. The latest entry features a whole new cast, a whole new storyline (split between California and South Korea), and, of course, new beef\u2014just not as we knew it before. 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<\/p>\nWhere Does Everyone End Up in the Epilogue?<\/strong><\/h2>\n