‘Beef’ Is Overcrowded and Unfocused in an Unnecessary Season 2: TV Review

By Alison Herman

Alison Herman

TV Critic

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In transitioning from a standalone story to a multi-season anthology, all shows in the genre Ryan Murphy took mainstream with “American Horror Story” face the same existential question. If a series isn’t defined by a stable set of characters or locations, what does define it? For HBO’s “The White Lotus,” the answer is wealthy people trying and failing to outrun their problems at various outposts of a luxury hotel chain. For FX’s “Fargo,” it’s the battle between moral turpitude and folksy common decency across the American Midwest. 

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