commentary The Netflix hit returns with the idea that at every level of a dog-eat-dog economy, women get chewed up first Published April 23, 2026 1:30PM (EDT) Carey Mulligan as Lindsay Crane-Martin and Oscar Isaac as Josh Martin in "Beef" (Netflix) The following contains spoilers from Season 2 of "Beef," including the finale. At Monte Vista Point, the country club setting for the second season of “ Beef ,” every familiarity is an illusion, a game of appearances that its general manager, Josh Martín ( Oscar Isaac ) and his wife, Lindsay Crane-Martín ( Carey Mulligan ), are experts at playing. Josh pals around with the club’s impossibly wealthy members, serves them rare brown liquors and flies off with them to exotic locales at a moment’s notice. He and Lindsay pretend to be a happily married couple. In private, Josh shows more passion toward cam girls he patronizes online while Lindsay pines for the status she once enjoyed among Britain’s upper crust.…