Rating: 9/10

Have you ever hated somebody a lot that you’d stalk them? Pee throughout their rest room? Vandalize their automotive? Catfish their sibling?

Netflix’s latest trending TV show, “Beef,” is a darkish comedy that explores the lives and intense ongoing “beef” of Danny Cho, a contractor performed by Steven Yeun, and Amy Lau, a rich small enterprise proprietor performed by Ali Wong. Yeun and Wong’s characters meet in a highway rage incident that goes viral, kickstarting their strangers-to-enemies storyline.

Cho struggles with cash and his profession, which in flip impacts his rocky relationship together with his brother, Paul, and his mother and father. He needs to show himself to his household, however fails to seek out contracting work and preserve purchasers.

As the breadwinner for her household, Lau additionally struggles together with her profession. She needs to shut a deal to advance her profession, and every little thing she does revolves round making an attempt to be the right, mannequin businesswoman as a way to impress others and preserve her fame.

Both characters are extraordinarily dissatisfied with their lives and take out their frustrations by making an attempt to get revenge on one another after their highway rage incident.

The lengths that these characters go to to make the opposite particular person’s life a dwelling hell is entertaining, however the longer you watch, the extra it begins to get a bit of aggravating.

You root for each Cho and Lau, however repeatedly face disappointment as they proceed one upping one another of their seemingly by no means ending sport of revenge. 

It can get a bit of tiresome at occasions, however every plot twist within the present makes it really feel value it.

One of the most important highlights of “Beef” for me was the quantity of Asian illustration all through the present. Almost the whole solid is of Asian descent, and as an Asian girl, it felt refreshing to see a lot illustration with out it being the primary premise of the present.

Yeun and Wong are appearing icons within the Asian neighborhood, however their performances on this present are most likely their finest up to now. Their uncommon potential to ship humor mixed with such heartfelt, emotionally intense drama scenes shines in each second of “Beef.” 

Each of them brings their characters to life so effectively, you’ll neglect that Yeun and Wong are those enjoying them – which is one thing that has been troublesome for such well-known Asian actors like Yeun and Wong to beat in earlier roles.

“Beef” does have a aptitude for exaggeration and the dramatic  – you’ll be able to inform simply by every episode’s title display, which options barely horrifying work by one of many solid members – however it’s simply grounded in realism sufficient to work. 

There are factors within the present the place I did roll my eyes. (Watching the higher class, snobby characters in Lau’s life have so many discussions over a fundamental inexperienced chair obtained significantly annoying at occasions.) But more often than not, I discovered myself unable to look away, which is why I completed the present in three days.

The A24-produced collection is an insane, mildly anxiety-inducing rollercoaster from begin to end. You could snort, cry, get scared and virtually wish to gag whereas watching it, however “Beef” is a present that you just simply need to binge.