A passive aggressive employee and a missing receipt send Danny back to his car, grills of death in tow, a painfully poignant moment, which he interprets as a sign from a world that doesn’t want him. He is saving up money to bring his parents to California from Korea, is taking care of his crypto-brained younger brother, and dabbles in binge eating disorder. We enter this world through Danny Cho, expertly played by Steven Yeun, who is walking back his plans of suicide, attempting to return three hibachi grills and a carbon monoxide detector to a hardware store. In the world of Beef, the mean shall inherit the earth. Over the course of 10 episodes, Ali Wong and Steven Yeun play cat and mouse, routinely swerving and passing each other on the road to eternal misery. Netflix’s latest hit series from A24 and creator/writer Lee Sung Jin follows two antagonists drowning in the throes of humanity’s ugliest emotion, rage. The antidote to toxic positivity, the cathartic response to therapy-speak, the ugly truth–that’s Beef.
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