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"Beef" is finally returning for its second season on Netflix and, with it, comes a new cast of characters who find themselves in conflict with each other. What remains the same, however, for this latest season is the setting, which is still California. It’s for that reason that we’ve long been wondering whether this is the same Cali that serves as the backdrop for the original episodes. We asked series director Jake Schreier about that during a recent interview for CinemaBlend, and I wasn’t expecting his answer.

Jake Schreier has certainly been in the position of having to watch his words when it comes to talking about his projects. After all, he did direct Marvel’s Thunderbolts* (or New Avengers), and he’s also helming the upcoming X-Men reboot (which we discussed). Still, we’d be lying if we said we expected the director to be cagey in regard to the inner workings of producer/writer Lee Sung Jin’s "Beef" continuity. When we asked Schreier whether the seasons take place in the exact same California, he said the following.
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00:00You know, it's an interesting question.
00:01I don't know that we thought of it as being more heightened.
00:03I think it's possible, though, that because it starts
00:08in a very different place, you know, like season one starts,
00:10like leaps into violence from the very first moment of the show,
00:14and this season is more of a slow burn.
00:16And so maybe because of that, like, it felt like you wanted,
00:19like, a bigger canvas to play on by the time you got to the end,
00:21you know, like, for the promise of what beef is.
00:24But I think, man, is it the same California?
00:28You got to ask Sonny that.
00:29I don't want to, like, spoil the BCU or whatever you would call it.
00:33But I, you know, I think it's a similar world for sure, for sure.
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