Beef, the new A24 road rage drama coming to Netflix next week, already has a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes
about a road rage incident between two strangers that gets blown out of proportion has come storming out of the gate — earning such positive reviews following its preview for critics earlier this month at SXSW thatA Hollywood Reporter review, for example, calls Beef a “feast of sharp comedy, wild thrills, and disarming empathy.”
In the series, which arrives on Netflix on April 6, Yeun portrays a failing contractor with a chip on his shoulder. He gets locked in a dispute with a woman played by Wong — a self-made entrepreneur with a picturesque life. “The increasing stakes of their feud,” Netflix explains, “unravel their lives and relationships in this darkly comedic and deeply moving series.”
Explains creator and showrunner Lee Sung Jin, in an interview included with Netflix’s press material, “The idea was loosely based on a road rage incident that actually happened to me. Someone went off on me, and for some reason that day, I did not use sound judgment and impulsively decided to follow this person.”“I didn’t really have a set plan, I just wanted him to feel fear and let him know that it’s not okay to do that to people.
— which is one of many indications that this is a higher-tier Netflix series than the kind of show you’re probably more familiar with from the company. The art featured in the title cards for Episodes 2 through 10, for example, comes from original pieces by artist David Choe . The art in the first episode is a Renaissance-era painting by Pieter Aertsen titledThen there are the episode titles, which all come from quotes by famous figures:“Just Not All At the Same Time” “The Great Fabricator” Jin has also explained that a kind of thematic through-line for the series came from a line in Ursula K.
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