Two-time Academy Award winner and 11-time Grammy Award winner Finneas O’Connell will compose the music for Season 2 of Netflix and A24’s anthology series Beef.
O’Connell, known for being a songwriter, producer, and frequent collaborator with her sister Billie Eilish, said she has spent the past 12 months in the land of ‘beef.’
The new season of the Emmy Award-winning drama will premiere on Netflix on April 16 and will consist of eight episodes. The series, created by Lee Sung-jin, returns with a new cast and storyline following the highly successful first film starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong.
The musician said he wrote all original music for the show, adding, “While I was doing the music for the show, I probably watched every scene 100 times, and I felt it every time.”
Creator, showrunner, scriptwriter, and executive producer Lee Sung-jin praised the musician’s emotional range. He said, “Phineas is the brilliant brain behind most of the music that has colored my personal life for the past 10 years.” She added: “He has an uncanny ability to make the darkest emotions sound painfully beautiful.”
Beyond his chart success, O’Connell has steadily branched out into composing for film and television. He has previously written the music for the HBO Max drama “The Fallout,” B.J. Novak’s dark comedy “Vengeance,” and the music for Alfonso Cuaron’s Apple TV+ series “Disclaimer.” His songwriting was the “Barbie” ballad “What Was I Made For?” He won an Academy Award and two Grammy Awards.
This season, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny play a young couple working at a country club who witness an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, played by Oscar Isaac (“Frankenstein”) and Carey Mulligan (“Promising Young Woman”). Oscar-winning actresses Yoon Yoo-jung (“Minari”) and Song Kang-ho (“Parasite”) will join the cast, and the film will depict “the chess moves of favor and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its South Korean billionaire owner.”
