Beef
A New Starting Point for Further Desires
TV Flash files “A New Starting Point for Further Desires” as hour 12 of 18 in the TV Flash guide — Beef (2023) on Netflix, season 2, episode 2, aired 2026-04-16, 48 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E02: listed hour 12 of 18 in the Beef guide, hour 2 of 8 in season 2. It aired 2026-04-16 (48 min). The listed hour before it is “All the Things We're Never Going to Have” (S02E01). Next is “The Increasing Flimsiness of Any Certainties About the Future” (S02E03).
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While Josh tries to play off Ashley's ascendance at the club, Lindsay seeks petty revenge. The Chairwoman proposes changes at the gym.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A New Starting Point for Further Desires sit in the Beef guide?
S02E02 is listed hour 12 of 18 — hour 2 of 8 in season 2, season 2 episode 2.
When did Beef S02E02 air?
A New Starting Point for Further Desires aired 2026-04-16 and is listed at 48 minutes.
Where should I start?
The parking-lot encounter in episode one. The limited series is an escalation machine; skipping the petty start undercuts Wong and Yeun going feral with precision.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch Ali Wong and Steven Yeun go feral with precision in Lee Sung Jin's complete limited arc: a parking-lot road-rage encounter neither can let go. Rage as intimacy, class as accelerant. Watch when you want comedy that feels dangerous and knows when to end.
A petty parking-lot conflict between Amy and Danny escalates into mutual obsession, and the old American night recognizes the form: strangers, class, ego, a demolition derby that used to live in a movie house and now lives in a limited series. Lee Sung Jin's Netflix title premiered April 6, 2023, and made Ali Wong and Steven Yeun the decade's great enemies-to-something-worse pairing. Rage as intimacy; class as accelerant. Jamie Lee Curtis orbits the blast. Dark comedy timing until personal and criminal…
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