By which I don’t mean Asian American people – although that, too – I mean extremely angry people. Like much of A24’s output, Beef makes strides in onscreen representation, with another show about people we don’t get to see enough of on television. No doubt, the Beef-themed additions to A24’s much-coveted merch line will be dropping any day now.
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The episode titles include The Rapture of Being Alive and The Birds Don’t Sing, They Screech in Pain, with each title card featuring original paintings by artist and erstwhile Vice TV contributor David Choe (who also co-stars as Danny’s criminally inclined cousin Isaac). Beef’s particular brand of existential longing, though, is less hotdog fingers and more Herzogian angst.
They have previously worked together in the bird-based animation Tuca & Bertie (Wong voiced song thrush Bertie Yeun was Bertie’s robin boyfriend Speckle Lee had writing credits), yet never in a project that required such obvious personal investment.īeef also proudly bears the imprint of achingly hip indie entertainment company A24 and attains at least one moment of psychedelic-enhanced, soul-swapping enlightenment, reminiscent of A24’s recent Oscar-winner Everything Everywhere All at Once. She is the standup whose raunchy, feminist takes on family life – particularly that latest, pre-divorce Netflix special – make her ideal casting as Amy, a woman whose secret stress-relief involves masturbating with a gun. He is the Walking Dead alum turned star of well-regarded movies in the US (Nope, Minari) and South Korea (Burning). If you are already familiar with the work of Wong and Yeun, Beef’s quality won’t surprise you. Yet this Beef, when marinated in creator Lee Sung Jin’s unique perspective and tenderised by unexpected plot twists, soon becomes a delicacy worth savouring. And this – despite several very funny lines of dialogue – doesn’t easily translate to light entertainment. It’s a dark, existential thriller about cynical people confronting a deep sadness within. The difficult-to-categorise script is not quite comedy and not quite drama, but neither is it yet another of the low-energy LA dramedies that streaming services have turned from quirky cottage industry to mass export good. Not with those Yelp reviews.īeef, like its protagonists, struggles to make an instant emotional connection, but with good reason. Someone like Amy probably wouldn’t even hire someone like Danny to clear her drains. Danny’s world is Burger King chicken sandwiches, small-time scams and Korean church band. Yes, they’re both east Asian thirtysomethings living in Los Angeles, but Amy’s world is one of swanky gallery launches, a self-designed show-home and pushing through multimillion-dollar deals. Under ordinary circumstances the likes of Danny and Amy would have no reason to interact. This beef is the kind that exists between Amy and Danny, after a road-rage altercation in a car park escalates into a prolonged, strangely life-affirming feud – and Amy’s white whale of an SUV becomes an object of Moby Dick-like obsession. Nor is it the thin-sliced, Korean barbecue that struggling building contractor Danny ( Steven Yeun) grills outside his down-at-heel LA apartment block. Although that’s the sort of thing that successful Calabasas lifestyle entrepreneur Amy ( Ali Wong) might order on a desultory date-night with her model-handsome husband (Joseph Lee).
T he beef in question is not a fancy wagyu steak.
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