Finneas O’Connell will score the second season of the Netflix & A24 anthology series Beef, which premieres on April 16. The two-time Academy Award and eleven-time Grammy Award-winning singer reveals he has devoted a large part of the last year working on the series.
“Spent the last 12 months in Beef land. All 8 episodes out April 16, All Original music by me. Very grateful to Sonny for involving me, very grateful for the incredible performances from the entire cast; I probably watched every scene 100 times while I scored the show, and I felt it every time. True fan of this show, very honored and proud to be a part of it,” he said.
Creator, showrunner, writer, director and Executive Producer Lee Sung Jin said of O’Connell, “Finneas is the brilliant mind behind most of the music that has soundtracked my personal life over the last decade, so it’s an absolute honor to collaborate with him on the new season. He has an incredible ability to make the darkest emotions sound so achingly beautiful, and I cannot wait for everyone to hear what he’s cooked up.”
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Season 2 of Beef follows a Gen-Z couple who witnesses an alarming fight between their Millennial boss and his wife. Newly-engaged Ashley Miller (Cailee Spaeny) and Austin Davis (Charles Melton), both lower-level staff at a country club, become entangled in the unraveling marriage of their general manager, Joshua Martín (Oscar Isaac), and his wife, Lindsay Crane-Martín (Carey Mulligan).
Through favors and coercion, both couples vie for the approval of the elitist club’s Korean billionaire owner, Chairwoman Park (Youn Yuh-hung), who struggles to manage her own scandal involving her second husband, Doctor Kim (Song Kang-ho).
The cast also includes Seoyeon Jang, William Fichtner, Mikaela Hoover, and Matthew Kim.
O’Connell achieved success for his work and his collaborations with his sister Billie Eilish, later expanding as a composer, with a filmography of original scores for HBO Max’s The Fallout and BJ Novak’s Vengeance. Notable credits include working on behalf of the Disney PIXAR animated film Turning Red in 2022, he wrote the music for the film’s boyband 4*Town. A year later, he co-wrote and produced “What Was I Made For?” for the Greta Gerwig-directed feature Barbie. O’Connell scored the Apple Original series Disclaimer for Alfonso Cuarón. While he was doing all of the above, he was working on personal projects and headlined tours