If you are in your twenties, do you aspire to make your home more luxurious? If you are in your thirties or forties, perhaps you remember what it felt like to buy or furnish your own apartment or home for the first time. Maybe there was a deep satisfaction on hosting friends and family and showing off how your decorate with your great taste. The characters in the second season of Netflix’s Beef present a lot to the world when it comes to status and happiness, and that extends to where two couples consider homebase after scheming and trying to take down how the other half lives. Production designer Grace Yun wanted to tap into the histories and psyches of these four people to reflect deeper meaning in the season’s surroundings.
The center of the action of Beef this season revolves around a lush and pricey country club, Monte Vista Pointe, backed by Oscar Isaac’s Josh, the General Manager. I admitted quite immediately to Yun that the world of a country club felt very foreign to me since I have never stepped foot in one, and she echoed the sentiment. She drew inspiration from things she saw growing up, and it made me think about bright colors and popped collars on douchey men. Clubs like this always feel bright, as if money even buys direct sunlight over the manicured greens and enviable swimming pools.
“The idea of a country club was not part of my personal experience, so all of my knowledge of them came from 80s movies,” Yun says. “Pastels, poofed hair and lots of fun characters in that regard–that was really my only experience through story and entertainment. When we were scouting, Sunny set up these really insightful tours for the creative team and the cast that were very eye-opening. Once upon a time, I was thinking that maybe the birthday scene could have been around a pool party, and it was the time of day where the pool was empty. It was a beautiful day–perfect for swimming–and the sun was glinting over this lagoon-like pool, and it didn’t feel like that we were near civilization. It seems like I went to an upscale resort, and everyone was saying that they were feeling a little bit of an urge to have a cocktail and just lay out. What’s more privileged and luxurious than leisure and doing activities just for fun rather than obligation?”
Since Carey Mulligan’s Lindsay is an interior designer, Yun knew that she had to give her a specific perspective. There is a difference between cluttered and curated, after all, but the home she shares with Josh has plush pillows and velvet surfaces in comfier spaces. I love the green cabinets, sloped kitchen ceiling, and metal fan over the stove, and the dark purple swirling wall above the sitting area where Josh and Lindsay have their first real conversation with Austin and Ashley about the fight that kicks off the season. Yun even includes construction elements (missing and unfinished walls) to show how behind they are in their renovations. Since designing is Lindsay’s profession, it has to bleed into her personal life, and she has never met a pattern that she doesn’t like.
“You are exactly right that Lindsay is afraid of a solid color,” she says, with a laugh. “I remember having discussions with my set decorator, Kelly Jo Tinney, and my art director, Michael Hersey, about how Lindsay feels the need to fill the space. I was going for this maximalist feel for her in a sense of how sometimes people cope by collecting things. Sometimes when I am nervous, I will doodle on a piece of scrap paper and then I can tell where my anxiety is depending on how intricate or more random it is, and I wanted to apply that to Lindsay. If there’s an empty county space or wall, it’s like she needs to patch up some of the emotional things she’s not addressing, especially in her relationship and the stagnancy of her life–that dissatisfaction.”
There is one moment in the season where it appears that there is even more than one bowl curated fruit on the kitchen counter. We can imagine how Lindsay might want the smell or color of citrus to permeate into the energy of the home.
“That came from the idea of Lindsay trying to fulfill the fantasy of always having beautiful produce around, and, I too, imagine that she would be arranging florals and beautiful citrus,” she says. “That might be a calming coping mechanism for her–that’s something I would do. It’s not a judgement. We wanted lots of piles of things in her home to fiddle with or think she can fiddle with.”
One of the only places where Lindsay doesn’t have input is Josh’s space, but Yun reveals that Josh might be spending more time there than we assume. The wood paneling might remind some of a rec room in a family home or, dare I say, a mancave. Josh can unwind, smoke some pot, log onto OnlyFans, or vibe with some music without Lindsay managing the space. It’s understood that it belongs to him.
“When Sunny and I talked about Josh spending time in the ADU, we initially assume that that was a place where he felt he could escape,” Yun explains. “Then it became even more separated and that he had been isolating himself, and he sleeps there. He almost lives out of that space and we wanted it to be filled with his hobbies and his activities that maybe Lindsay might night tolerate. It feels like a creative outlet for him. He was passionate about music when he was younger, and we wanted his space to be filled with more nostalgic things rather than trendy status things. There’s sports memorabilia and collectibles, but it all ties into the things he was obsessed with in his twenties. I think he feels free there, and he feels that he can really let loose and not have to be a manager controlling the levers.”
Austin and Avery are at the age where they are just beginning to build a life together, and, in your late twenties, you may not worry about things in your home being so matchy-matchy. In their apartment, none of their furniture really goes together, but I love the mid-century chair, the floral curtains, and the green arched tile in the bathroom. Seeing their space made me think about how they might acquire items in their home. Maybe the previous tenant left a bookshelf behind? Maybe they saw something on the side of the road in great condition and they hauled it home? Yun made the space feel exciting, homey, and brimming with possibility.
“I wanted to explore the values of the Gen Z mindset and also think about what it is to start your first home with someone you’re in love with,” she says. “Their space definitely needed to feel worn in, and they were not the first people to live there. That tile in the bathroom was not renovated and up to date, but when they saw that place, they fell in love with the vintage quality and they saw it as an asset. It didn’t feel dated to them. For the decor, we wanted it to feel like it’s all more of an emotional grab of loving a tchotchke or a mug because it reminds them of, maybe, their grandmother or reminds them of the time they went to the beach. There’s collected shells and knickknacks in there, and it’s of the those things when you can’t afford to fill your space with considered things, it becomes more of a collection of memories like totems.”
When Josh and Lindsay need to get away, they decide to take a brief jaunt to a neighboring bed and breakfast, but we all know that they are comparing their tastes to the owner’s. How can you escape that thought when you find out what a $20 million renovation can buy. Well, it can buy a huge, stone fireplace and a long expansive shelf along one entire wall of their bedroom. I want those silver lamps at the bedside. Maybe we are all envious of how someone else lives?
“We really chose it because the location was just amazing,” Yun admits. “There was no civilization around, and it was all the way up these hills. It had a gorgeous sunset, and we just wanted land that seemed to go on forever so maybe this other couple could continue to grow their retreat. Maybe they would have bespoke little cabins for people who just want to be out in nature but with luxurious linens. We leaned into the luxe fabric, textural fabric, mineral palette feel and looked for light fixtures that also felt like sculptures made out of driftwood or something natural. That really long shelf was actually part of necessity, because behind it was a ton of bookshelves and we had to think of some sort of design that would hide what we didn’t want to feature too much. I wanted to bring more of a serenity and textural quality to the space.”
Beef is streaming on Netflix.
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