For many people, the waves of anger that arise whenever someone cuts them off in traffic comes as quickly as they do, but that couldn’t be further from the truth for the wronged strangers in the first Netflix trailer and A24next series of Beef by Lee Sung Jin starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeun.
Before the couple meet for the first time one fateful day, neither Danny Cho (Yeun) nor Amy Lau (Wong) have any way of knowing how hopeless, exhausted and adrift the other feels about their personal lives. Although Amy seemingly has it all: a loving husband named George (Joseph Lee), children, and a beautiful home, she can’t help but feel that something very important is missing from her life that her family can’t fix. Danny, a contractor whose finances are taking a big hit, apparently doesn’t know how he’s going to stay afloat.
They are both in the midst of an existential crisis when they have a chance meeting in a parking lot that ends with upside-down birds. But when Danny decides to chase Amy in his car and the pair end up racing through the suburbs intent on running off the road, it’s just the beginning of a deranged but apparently fun fight that will unfold. at the other side of Beefthe first season of. BeefThe trailer gives you a solid idea of just how surprisingly cinematic and introspective the A24-produced dark comedy will be when Beef hits Netflix on April 6, but what will really be interesting to watch is how Amy and Danny end up burying the hatchet, either metaphorically or literally, as revenge.
