If you have a lot of pent-up anger, this is the series you should watch

BarcelonaDaily existence, with all its professional and personal demands, can end up being like a pressure cooker on the verge of exploding. This is one of the ideas behind Beef, the Netflix anthology series that explores all the dysfunctions caused by the capitalist system. The second season, which premieres this Thursday, focuses mainly on two couples, one in their forties and another in their twenties, and the growing tension between them as well as within each of their relationships. The four main protagonists are Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Charles Melton, and Cailee Spaeny.

When the series begins, Josh Martin (Oscar Isaac) and his wife, Lindsay (Mulligan), seem like the perfect couple: he is the manager of an exclusive sports club and she supports him in all the social activities organized there. This image is far from reality, and Ashley (Cailee Spaeny) and Austin (Melton), a young, recently engaged couple of club workers, will discover it in the worst way. By chance, they will witness an extremely violent argument between the two, information they will eventually use to gain professional and social advantages. In this context, the new owner of the club arrives from South Korea, an impenetrable woman who has little sympathy for either Josh or Lindsay. The result of all these interactions is a web of blackmail, coercion, and violence.

A miniseries that has ended up being a series

Created by American screenwriter of Korean origin Lee Sung Jin, Broncato Los Angeles for the new installment. The success of "The first season is the first level of the video game and the second is level two; there is a new set of obstacles, a new set of traps. It is a much more emotional season, I think, because it deals with the theme of love and marriage," explained the creator during the premiere in Los Angeles of the new installment.

The success of Bronca led the project to go from being a miniseries to transforming into an anthology miniseries in which each new season explores new confrontations. However, the renewal was not automatic and Lee Sung Jin admits that he presented Netflix with many ideas for a continuation, but the platform rejected them all. In this regard, he assures that he does not know what the future of the production will be. "I would be perfectly happy if this ends up being the last season of Bronca. I also have other things I would like to do, but if inspiration strikes me – as it probably will, since the universe is full of disputes – then I want to keep an open mind and respond," he details.