Beef

If you were upset or thought Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar win was just a one off, I’m here to tell you the Asian talent is plenty and coming through!!

Beef spoke to me on so many levels. I’m confident at some level it will speak to you too. From the jump it explores our everyday rage moments but unlike us who manage to hold it in (sometimes) Beef shows us the possible outcomes of if we were to unleash. It shows both sides of the coin, the full blown ragers and the half hearted ones and it’s all hilarious. The show is anger themed from the jump and just shows how everyone deals with things differently. I’ll be honest, if it was me, in the opening scene? The store employee? He’s catching these hands asap LOL.

The show follows Danny Cho and Amy Lau through their everyday lives and gives us a full view of how all the societal classes navigate through the everyday world. Danny is a handy man who is bad with money and hasn’t had much luck in his business ventures whilst Amy is married to a successful artist and also on the verge of selling her own business for millions. They simply cross paths in a road rage incident and from that pursue each other on the most vengeful, spiteful journey. It’s a blast to watch.

It all starts small then blows up to crazy levels, from gun fights to demons on display, it’s a rollercoaster.

Emmys and Oscars are pending. Outstanding and glorious performances here. Steven Yeun and Ali Wong are amazing. Given the contrast and tone of the show they still manage to capture a special kind of chemistry, they also do this without a single love making scene. The cast is wonderful from the child actors to the adults. With the show focused on giving an insight to Korean community they stayed true within the casting. Honourable mention would be David Choe as Isaac Cho. The rough, aggressive, criminal influenced cousin we all have, but deep down underneath they are sweet teddy bears. He nails his role and brings the humour and drama to the show. 

There are some serious lecture lessons here to divulge in. You have the sibling dynamic littered with layers of issues from expressing your yourself to just being plain honest. This one I liked, the art of business. Failing and failing and trying again. In light of all the money problems, opening up yourself to new things despite the negative outcomes. For obvious reasons the crypto narrative hit me hard (insert cry face). The pros and mainly the cons of borrowing money especially from family. The toughness and reality of life where it can cross mental boundaries into the realm of suicide. The abnormal sexual fetish for guns (insert confused face). You have characters that portray the whole captain positive no matter the outcomes in life and this tends to come from being bad listeners. There are heavy plot elements around religion and spiritual entities and how they affect us whether positive or negative and this is one of the pacing tools used to keep us going through this maze of drama. There is sooooo much to unpack here and it’s really worth the journey.

It’s a full blown drama which starts of tiny and just continues to grow and expand and its done very well. The love hate relationship theme isn’t just limited to our main 2 characters, it’s been filtered through all the characters displaying it all with different duos and how the effects may differ. There are parts where drift way off the end goal which can deter you from continuing but recommend you to stay strong and power through as it goes to a good ending.

Which one of the anger displays resonated with you? Did you spot the shouting meme they used? Who was your favourite character? Do you want to see a season 2? React and comment below…