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* EveryoneHasStandards: Danny may be a petty, vindictive man who goes to increasingly ludicrous ways to get back at Amy, but he staunchly refuses to put Amy's daughter June in danger in any way. Early in the show, he aborts a plan to burn down Amy's car when he realizes June is inside it, [[spoiler:and when he accidentally kidnaps her near the end of the series, he does his damndest to make sure she's safe and happy given the circumstances.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Jordan ends up getting ''cut in half'' by a panic room door that goes off just as they trip and land right in the middle of it]]. It's not instantaneous either; the door slams against her several times, breaking bones and internal organs, before it finally causes enough damage to slice through her.
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* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Amy is driven to masturbate with a gun since she finds her sexual relationship with George unfulfilling.
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** The three Cho men who live in California. The somewhat dim but genuinely kind Paul is nice, the violent but charming criminal Isaac is mean, and Danny is in-between.
** Amy's family. The passive but sweet George is nice, his bitter and unappeasable mother Fumi is mean (though she has a PetTheDog moment late in the season), and Amy is in-between.
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** The entire final episode is filled with these as Danny and Amy go back and forth with talking about their lives and their voices merge into one as they swap stories.
** The three Cho men who live in California. The somewhat dim but genuinely kind Paul is nice, the violent but charming criminal Isaac is mean, and Danny is in-between.
** Amy's family. The passive but sweet George is nice, his bitter and unappeasable mother Fumi is mean (though she has a PetTheDog moment late in the season), and Amy is in-between.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Amy is able to find Danny using the same methods he used to track her down (memorizing his license plate number and running it through a search engine that allows her to learn his name, address and business). She also leaves Yelp reviews that damage his business's repuation.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Amy is able to find Danny using the same methods he used to track her down (memorizing his license plate number and running it through a search engine that allows her to learn his name, address and business). She also leaves Yelp reviews that damage his business's repuation.reputation.
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* ForWantOfANail: The feud between Danny and Amy that led to numerous events such as [[spoiler:Amy's divorce, Paul cutting Danny out of his life, Isaac being sent to prison, and Jordan and Michael's deaths,]] was due to a road rage incident between the two, which itself was launched by Danny backing his pickup truck out of a parking space without looking to make sure if it was clear.
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* ItBeganWithATwistOfFate: The feud between Danny and Amy that led to numerous events such as [[spoiler:Amy's divorce, Paul cutting Danny out of his life, Isaac being sent to prison, and Jordan and Michael's deaths,]] was due to a road rage incident between the two, which itself was launched by Danny backing his pickup truck out of a parking space without looking to make sure if it was clear.
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Originally billed as a miniseries, [[https://deadline.com/2024/02/beef-season-2-cast-charles-melton-cailee-spaeny-jake-gyllenhaal-anne-hathaway-circling-1235838602/ a second season is in the works]], this time focusing making it an AnthologySeries. The second season will focus on two feuding couples - one played by Creator/CharlesMelton and Creator/CaileeSpaeny, the other by Creator/JakeGyllenhaal and Creator/AnneHathaway.
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''Beef'' is a dark comedy MiniSeries created by Creator/LeeSungJin (''WesternAnimation/{{Undone}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'') for Creator/{{A24}}. The ten-episode series began streaming on Creator/{{Netflix}} on April 6, 2023.
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''Beef'' is a dark comedy MiniSeries series created by Creator/LeeSungJin (''WesternAnimation/{{Undone}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'') for Creator/{{A24}}. The ten-episode series began streaming on Creator/{{Netflix}} on April 6, 2023.
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* FiveFiveFive: Paul's phone number is (818)-144-6765, which goes nowhere in real life because it has 1, the country code for the NANP region and the numbet that long distance calls begin with, as its first number.
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* FiveFiveFive: Paul's phone number is (818)-144-6765, which goes nowhere in real life because it has 1, the country code for the NANP region and the numbet number that long distance calls begin with, as its first number.digit.
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* FiveFiveFive: Paul's phone number is (818)-144-6765, which goes nowhere in real life because it has 1, the country code for the NANP region and the numbet that long distance calls begin with, as its first number.
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* RaceFetish: Played with. Danny has been taught by his parents that to settle down, he must choose a Christian, Korean woman, and he often makes demeaning remarks about white women as vapid or even just as not worthy of marriage to him and his brother. Privately though, he has a fetish for white women and looks up AMWF ("Asian Male White Female") porn online and even jerks off to a photo of Amy when he thought she was a white girl named Kayla.
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* CastingGag: In ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'', Creator/AliWong and Creator/StevenYeun voice Bertie and Speckle, two birds who are in a stable, happy relationship. Here, they play two strangers who become obsessed with destroying each other thanks to a road rage incident.
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* NotSoDifferent: Both Danny and Amy both believe in the motto of Family First and have faced a ''lot'' of strain to live up to that motto. They are both children of disapproving ImmigrantParents. And both are {{Consummate Liar}}s.
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* DiabolusExMachina: Near the end of finale, [[spoiler: after spending two nights and a day at the desert and nearly dying of berry poisoning]], it seems like the two protagonists are finally getting along. As they walk towards safety, [[spoiler: George shows up, mistakes Danny giving a resting Amy support as an attack, and shoots him]]. The final scene is in a hospital room with no guarantee of survival.
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* CentralTheme: PoorCommunicationKills. Basically every single character with dialogue lies to the person they're talking to, and in many cases have ''structured their lives'' around these lies. (The sole possible exception is six-year-old Junie, who is too young to engage in this sort of artifice... though, as the show goes on, it becomes clear that she's learning.) Not coincidentally, every single character with lines (and this time we ''are'' including poor Junie) is alienated from the people around them, unable to connect with them on any level beyond the superficial. This is, in some ways, what draws Amy and Danny together: while the only thing they're expressing is that they are BlindedByRage, it's also ''honest'', the only opportunity either of them has to BeYourself.
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* CentralTheme: PoorCommunicationKills. Basically every Every single character with dialogue lies interpersonal relationship in this show is tainted by lies: someone tells a falsehood to keep up appearances or manipulate the person they're talking to, and in other character. In many cases cases, the characters have ''structured their lives'' around these lies.lies. There is no relationship in which ''both'' parties are able to BeYourself. (The sole possible exception is six-year-old Junie, who is too young to engage in this sort of artifice... though, as the show goes on, it becomes clear that makes clear, she's learning.) Not coincidentally, every single character with lines interpersonal relationship in this show (and this time we ''are'' including poor Junie) is alienated from the superficial and alienated, with people around them, engaging in the niceties but unable to connect with them each other on any level beyond the superficial. This level. The one exception is, in some ways, what draws of course, Amy and Danny together: while Danny. While the only thing they're expressing is that they are BlindedByRage, it's also ''honest'', the only opportunity either of them has to BeYourself.''genuine'' relationship, where both parties are honest with each other about themselves, on the show.
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* NotSoDifferent: Both Danny and Amy are hard-working first-generation immigrants with disapproving parents who are trying to support their families, and have faced a ''lot'' of strain to do so.
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* NotSoDifferent: Both Danny and Amy are hard-working first-generation immigrants with disapproving parents who are trying to support their families, both believe in the motto of Family First and have faced a ''lot'' of strain to do so.live up to that motto. They are both children of disapproving ImmigrantParents. And both are {{Consummate Liar}}s.
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* WouldntHurtAChild: Both Danny and Amy are protective of their respective {{Living Emotional Crutch}}es. What's surprising is that they're also protective of ''each other's'':
** When Danny accidentally kidnaps June (ItMakesSenseInContext), he spends the entire next episode guaranteeing her safety instead of exploiting her in pursuit of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
** When Amy learns, during the final episode, that something might have happened to Paul, she is genuinely aghast. She knows that Paul is the brother of her arch-nemesis -- and, by now, has reason to dislike Paul personally -- but nonetheless tries to remind Danny that Paul might have realistically escaped danger unscathed.
** When Danny accidentally kidnaps June (ItMakesSenseInContext), he spends the entire next episode guaranteeing her safety instead of exploiting her in pursuit of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
** When Amy learns, during the final episode, that something might have happened to Paul, she is genuinely aghast. She knows that Paul is the brother of her arch-nemesis -- and, by now, has reason to dislike Paul personally -- but nonetheless tries to remind Danny that Paul might have realistically escaped danger unscathed.
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* TruthInTelevision: Paul's perceived laziness and ignorance. Mostly he's just accustomed to being taken care of, his lack of planning and direction for his life is exactly what happens when someone's attempt to establish adult independence is [[spoiler: deliberately sabotaged by someone who does not want to see them grow.]] When you clip someone's wings, they stop trying to fly.
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* VillainProtagonist: Both main characters are introduced BlindedByRage, and while they have their positive points, each has made a number of poor decisions in the past and continues to make them as the show continues. The show essentially chronicles their parallel {{Redemption Arc}}s... and just how much blood and chaos those arcs require.
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* VillainProtagonist: Both main characters are introduced BlindedByRage, and while they have their positive points, each has made a number of poor decisions in the past and continues to make them as the show continues. The show essentially chronicles their parallel {{Redemption Arc}}s... Redemption Arcs and just how much blood and chaos those arcs require.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Danny's harassment of Paul for his laziness and perceived incompetence. Paul makes more than enough money to support an expensive gaming habit until Danny steals the passwords to his crypto trade accounts and, having no idea how cryptocurrency works, completely screws himself by attempting to spend it while it's still being traded, and Paul ''was'' motivated to go to college [[spoiler: until Danny sabotaged his chances at admission.]] When Amy says Danny has been holding Paul back, she has no idea how right she is.
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* TruthInTelevision: Paul's perceived laziness and ignorance. Mostly he's just accustomed to being taken care of, his lack of planning and direction for his life is exactly what happens when someone's attempt to establish adult independence is [[spoiler: deliberately sabotaged by someone who does not want to see them grow.]] When you clip someone's wings, they stop trying to fly.
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* AnimalMotifs: Crows keep coming up throughout, from Bobby and Michael discussing how crows were allegedly trained to hate Dick Cheney to Isaac sharing a story of Danny nursing a wounded crow back to health. [[spoiler:The surreal opening of Episode 10 features two crows talking to each other.]]
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* AnimalMotifs: Crows keep coming up throughout, from Bobby and Michael discussing how crows were allegedly trained to hate Dick Cheney to Isaac sharing a story of Danny nursing a wounded crow back to health. [[spoiler:The surreal opening of Episode 10 features two crows talking to each other.]] [[GeniusBonus There's a Chinese superstition]] that hearing the call of a crow while you're talking is a bad omen for whatever you're talking about, especially if it's a business deal.
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* {{Aesop}}: "Before you embark on a journey of {{revenge}}, dig two graves." Revenge is stupid and can spiral into something that will harm those you love. Most of the time, it's best to let things go and leave well enough alone.
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* CentralTheme: Revenge is stupid and can spiral into something that will harm those you love. Most of the time, it's best to let things go and leave well enough alone.
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* CentralTheme: Revenge is stupid PoorCommunicationKills. Basically every single character with dialogue lies to the person they're talking to, and can spiral into something in many cases have ''structured their lives'' around these lies. (The sole possible exception is six-year-old Junie, who is too young to engage in this sort of artifice... though, as the show goes on, it becomes clear that will harm those you love. Most of she's learning.) Not coincidentally, every single character with lines (and this time we ''are'' including poor Junie) is alienated from the time, people around them, unable to connect with them on any level beyond the superficial. This is, in some ways, what draws Amy and Danny together: while the only thing they're expressing is that they are BlindedByRage, it's best also ''honest'', the only opportunity either of them has to let things go and leave well enough alone.BeYourself.
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''Beef'' is a dark comedy series MiniSeries created by Creator/LeeSungJin (''WesternAnimation/{{Undone}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'') for Creator/{{A24}}. The ten-episode first season series began streaming on Creator/{{Netflix}} on April 6, 2023.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: Paul's not the smartest guy in the world, but he seems to be the more emotionally intelligent bother, assessing Danny as a dude who who has depression and not handling it well, which dooms their chances of maintaining a healthy brotherly relationship, which is hard to argue with.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: Paul's not the smartest guy in the world, but he seems to be the more emotionally intelligent bother, brother, assessing Danny as a dude who who has depression and not handling it well, which dooms their chances of maintaining a healthy brotherly relationship, which is hard to argue with.
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* RuleOfThree: Three times, Danny goes to George and Amy's house and lies about wanting to use the bathroom. The first time, he pees on the bathroom floor. The second time, he uses the opportunity to call off the intended heist of the house. [[spoiler:The third time, he goes there to plant evidence that will frame Amy for the house fire.]]
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* RuleOfThree: Three times, Danny goes to George and Amy's house and lies about wanting to use the bathroom. The first time, he pees on the bathroom floor. The second time, he uses the opportunity to call off the intended heist of he and his friends were planning to pull on the house. [[spoiler:The third time, he goes there to plant evidence that will frame Amy for the house fire.]]
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* AnAesop: Revenge is stupid and can spiral into something that will harm those you love. Most of the time, it's best to let things go and leave well enough alone.
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** How does June end up [[spoiler: in Danny's truck]]? It's because Danny told her he always has a bag in his truck.
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** How does June end up [[spoiler: in Danny's truck]]? It's because Danny told her he always has a bag of Skittles in his truck.
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* AnAesop: Revenge is stupid and can spiral into something that will harm hose those you love. It is most Most of the time time, it's best to let things go and leave well enough alone.
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** [[spoiler: Episode 9 uses "All is Full of Love" by Music/{{Bjork}}, a very gentle ambient piece about finding profound peace and love in the world, to score Danny and Amy's post break-in car chase, the peak of their blind hatred for one another.]]
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** [[spoiler: Episode 9 uses "All is Full of Love" by Music/{{Bjork}}, a very gentle ambient piece about finding profound peace and love in the world, to score Danny and [[spoiler: Amy's post break-in car chase, the peak of their blind hatred for one another.]]
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The first episode ends with "The Reason", a rock love song by Music/{{Hoobastank}} that emphasizes someone atoning for their past mistakes and becoming a better person. This plays right after Danny pissed all over Amy's bathroom floors and she shouts expletives while chasing him as he makes his getaway, driving off with smug, unrepentant satisfaction that he just got away with vandalizing someone who slighted him.
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** The first episode ends with "The Reason", a rock love song by Music/{{Hoobastank}} that emphasizes someone atoning for their past mistakes and becoming a better person. This plays right after Danny pissed all over Amy's bathroom floors and she shouts expletives while chasing him as he makes his getaway, driving off with smug, unrepentant satisfaction that he just got away with vandalizing someone who slightedhim.him.
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** The first episode ends with "The Reason", a rock love song by Music/{{Hoobastank}} that emphasizes someone atoning for their past mistakes and becoming a better person. This plays right after Danny pissed all over Amy's bathroom floors and she shouts expletives while chasing him as he makes his getaway, driving off with smug, unrepentant satisfaction that he just got away with vandalizing someone who slighted
** [[spoiler: Episode 9 uses "All is Full of Love" by Music/{{Bjork}}, a very gentle ambient piece about finding profound peace and love in the world, to score Danny and Amy's post break-in car chase, the peak of their blind hatred for one another.]]
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''Beef'' is a ten-episode dark comedy miniseries series by Creator/LeeSungJin (''WesternAnimation/{{Undone}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'') for Creator/{{A24}}. It was released The ten-episode first season began streaming on Creator/{{Netflix}} on April 6, 2023.
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** Amy is driven to masturbate with a gun since she finds her sexual relationship with George unfulfilling.
** After Danny unknowingly sees [[spoiler:an image of Amy's butt sent to Paul]], he almost uses it for this purpose.
** George does this [[spoiler:to Mia's Instagram pictures]].
** Amy is driven to masturbate with a gun since she finds her sexual relationship with George unfulfilling.
** After Danny unknowingly sees [[spoiler:an image of Amy's butt sent to Paul]], he almost uses it for this purpose.
** George does this [[spoiler:to Mia's Instagram pictures]].
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