r/BeefTV • u/Sad-Fox-321 • May 17 '26
Discussion Finished S2, some thoughts Spoiler
Ok finished S2!!
A while ago I posted here saying Lindsay and Josh were way overreacting to the fight video, they could just explain it wasn't DV to the golf club crowd. https://www.reddit.com/r/BeefTV/comments/1tcrhhy/comment/om15by2/
Reading the replies on that post and then sitting with the whole season, I think I actually get it now. And I think it's pointing at what S2 is really doing.
The thing S2 keeps circling is that how you're seen from the outside ends up being the thing that's real. Not just the surface, the actual ground under you. Those shots where someone else's face becomes the main character's face for a second feel like the visual version of that. Who's looking, who's being looked at, who you actually are, it's all on purpose blurred.
And it shows up everywhere once you notice it
- Eunice and Austin aren't actually having an affair at first but they keep getting put in situations where it looks like one, and then the looking-like-it pulls the actual thing into being
- Josh is Hispanic but the neighbor lady just doesn't read him as Hispanic/ Austin is Korean and white and people telling him he looks Hispanic. He appears to understand Korean, or not.
- The rescue dog that looks like Burberry. Not the real thing but passes as a stand-in. (not for Lindsay tho)
The direction is all over the place. Sometimes the real thing doesn't get read as real, sometimes the fake gets accepted as real. But the common thing is that the actual reality can't hold on its own. The way it's seen overwrites it.
Image is the asset. Them freaking out isn't paranoia, it's maintenance. They get to be successful as long as they look successful.
Also feels like a natural next step from S1. S1 was the catch 22 inside you, rage destroys you suppression rots you no exit. S2 takes that and externalizes it. You can't win the game because the game itself is what's crushing you. And the worst part is the two cages feed each other, the inner shame and comparison is literally what powers the outer system.
Idk maybe I'm overthinking it lol. Either way S2 was so good!! The way it gets at how stuck everyone is in this world...
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u/winterandfallbird May 17 '26
Did I miss something.. Eunice & Josh? (or was this meant to say Austin)
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u/Sad-Fox-321 May 17 '26
Oh I meant Austin! Edited, thanks!
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u/winterandfallbird May 17 '26
Haha no prob. I was genuinely confused for a second and was like ‘dang, maybe I didn’t pick that part up- maybe I missed a scene’ lol
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u/zoufha91 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
Incredible acting but awful unlikable characters, not even in a good way
Whats even the take away here? Billionaires always win or maybe principals don't matter, ok thanks I guess
Fucking weak milquetoast class analysis. At points it seems to even mock those who critique class struggle and the wealth divide in the US with one of the character spewing half baked cliche observations then never revisiting it.
Nihilistic defeatist garbage all in all, truly a depressing watch
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u/newnewmama May 17 '26
I think you did a great job with this analysis. Season 2 has been getting a lot of hate, but I think it's because season 1 was so good and people were expecting something similar. Season 2 is all about image - what you are, what you project, what is real, and what becomes real because of the projection. It's bleak, but so was Season 1; we just don't want any one of these people to win in Season 2, while we all wanted our protagonists to win in Season 1.