Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan Have a Generational ‘Beef’ (opens in new tab)

“Beef” returns to Netflix on Thursday with another stressful story and a new batch of ethically fraught characters. In the second season of the Emmy-winning anthology series, Carey Mulligan and Oscar Isaac play a married couple on the brink. The first season of “Beef,” created by Lee Sung Jin, starred Ali Wong and Steven Yeun as two strangers engaging in escalating acts of destruction after a road-rage incident. In the new season, also overseen by Lee, the conflict centers on two couples at a...