Beef Creator Says He’s ‘Perfectly Happy’ If Season 3 Doesn’t Happen

Beef creator Lee Jung Sin is weighing in about what’s next for the award-winning show.

After Beef’s inaugural series proved to be a huge success with both critics and viewers, Netflix made the decision to turn it into an anthology series, focussing on a different set of characters – and, indeed, a different central feud – each time.

Season two premiered earlier this month, with Lee previously sharing his hopes to conclude after a third run.

However, in a candid new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the three-time Emmy winner made it clear that he’s at peace if Beef were to come to an end without a third iteration.

“I’d be perfectly happy if this were the last season,” he claimed. “I think it’s really emotionally taxing, the making of it and the rollout of it.”

He continued: “I feel like I’ve said it through two seasons of Beef. But I do remain open if the universe shows me something in the future and it feels right for Beef. I’m definitely open.”

The first season of Beef featured Ali Wong and Steven Yeun as a pair of strangers who become engrossed in each other’s lives when a chance road range encounter bubbles over into an all-encompassing vendetta.

In the follow-up, the stakes were raised even higher, with Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny playing two feuding couples on opposing sides of a generational and class divide that leads both pairs to ask big questions about their partners, and themselves.

Back in 2023, while promoting season one, Lee told Rolling Stone that he’d always envisaged Beef telling three separate stories.

“I have one really big general idea that I can’t really say yet, but I have three seasons mapped out in my head currently,” he claimed.

Seasons one and two of Beef are now streaming on Netflix.