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Review: Is a bigger 'Beef' a better 'Beef'?

Netflix's dark comedy anthology sprawls in its second season, starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Cailee Spaeny, and Charles Melton

Review: Is a bigger 'Beef' a better 'Beef'?
Carey Mulligan and Oscar Isaac in Beef Season Two

The first season of Netflix's Beef can be easily and accurately summed up in one straightforward sentence: Two strangers let a road rage incident escalate to an absurd degree as a way to ignore the problems in their own lives. The story got bigger, and stranger, than that, but at its core was Steven Yeun and Ali Wong turning this small thing into something that nearly destroyed them both. 

Three years later, the second season of what's become an anthology series can also be explained in a sentence if you try. But it's a longer and more contorted one: A young couple blackmails an older couple over an embarrassing video, and the older couple are involved in financial shenanigans at the local country club, and the new owner of the club is trying to cover up a scandal in Seoul, and...