History Series / Beef

* BrutualHonesty: Fumi admits that George lacks any of the artistic ability his father had.

** Amy's own house is dwarfed by the home of billionaire Jordan, an isolated, spacious mansion on an isolated California hill, filled with expensive art, furniture, and cultural artifacts. [[spoiler:It also has an advanced security system and a panic room with a ''very'' powerful door.]]
** The house that Danny finally builds for his parents is also this. However, it [[spoiler: it burns down due to his own faulty wiring]].

** Amy's own house is dwarfed by the home of billionaire Jordan, an isolated, high-ceilinged mansion on an isolated California hill, filled with expensive art, furniture, and cultural artifacts. [[spoiler:It also has an advanced security system and a panic room with a ''very'' powerful door.]]

* AwfulWeddedLife: Amy and George are married and seemingly happy on the surface, but problems quickly begin arising and push them to enter counseling. She's not satisfied with the sex and his inability to relate to her depression, and he feels that she's emotionally distant due to her focus on her business (and, unbeknowst to him, her feud with Danny). [[spoiler:George is also attracted to Amy's assistant Mia and claims a deep connection with her, and Amy eventually has sex with Danny's brother, Paul. While their relationship seems to improve once the Forsters deal is done, the later revelations of their infidelity and the sheer scale of Amy's dishonesty leads him to ask for a divorce and demand sole custody of their daughter.]]

* 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.]]

* Foil:

* Foreshadowing: Despite his best efforts, Danny is not the most adept contractor as seen from his reviews on Yelp and his general financial situation. This really comes to a head when [[spoiler: the home he builds for his parents burns down to due to faulty wiring]].

* OutclassedAtTheGym: In the second episode, Danny strains trying to benchpress a certain weight. His more fuckboy-ish younger brother Paul gets under it and starts lifting it with no problem.

** Amy, whom Danny describes as a "rich bitch from Calabasas", has a large, spacious modern home. It contrasts the dinky motel room Danny lives out of.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Heavily leaning towards bitter. [[FireForgedFriends A shared near death experience allows Danny and Amy to squash their beef]], but only after it costs both of them their professional lives, their personal relationships, their physical health, and most likely their public image to the extent that all they have is each other.]]

* DumbassHasAPoint: Paul's not the smartest guy in the world, but his assessment of Danny as a dude who who has depression and not handling it well, which dooms their chances of maintaining a healthy brotherly relationship, is hard to argue with.
* EscalatingWar: The series starts with a fairly mundane altercation in a store parking lot and escalates into a full blown road rage incident. Over the ensuing series, the two parties involved partake in increasingly elaborate ways of antagonising each other: from petty swipes like Danny peeing on Amy's bathroom floor and Amy vandalizing Danny's car to [[spoiler:a catastrophic home invasion that ends in Amy's divorce, Paul cutting off Danny, Isaac in prison likely for life, and Jordan and Michael dead]].

* EpisodeTitleCard: A memorable example, with each featuring the episode title imposed over an original painting by Isaac's actor David Choe.

* OutclassedAtTheGym: In the second episode, Danny strains trying to benchpress a certain weight. His more fuckboyish younger brother Paul gets under it and starts lifting it with no problem.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The first episode ends with "The Reason", a hard 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.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Heavily leaning towards DownerEnding. [[FireForgedFriends A shared near death experience allows Danny and Amy to squash their beef]], but only after it costs both of them their professional lives, their personal relationships, their physical health, and most likely their public image to the extent that all they have is each other.]]

* VomitIndiscretionShot: Michael vomits in full view of the camera after witnessing [[spoiler:Jordan being slowly bisected by her own panic room door]].

* 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.]]

** Amy's own house is dwarfed by the home of billionaire Jordan, an isolated, high-ceilinged mansion on an isolated California hill, filled with expensive art, furniture, and cultural artifacts.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Heavily leaning towards DownerEnding. [[FireForgedFriends A shared near death experience allows Danny and Amy to squash their beef]], but only after it costs both of them their professional lives, their personal relationships, their physical health and most likely their public image to the extent that all they have is each other.]]
* {{Catfishing}}: Amy catfishes Paul by pretending to be a hot girl on Instagram. It's so obvious that every single character immediately notes that she's a catfish, but he ignores them.

* EpisodeTitleCard: A unique example, with each featuring the episode title imposed over an original painting by Isaac's actor David Choe.

* TapOnTheHead: Danny [[spoiler:knocks George's head on the wall]] and the latter collapses, but shows up later apparently no worse for wear.

* AwfulWeddedLife: Amy and George are married. She's not satisfied with the sex, and he feels that she's emotionally distant. [[spoiler:George is attracted to Amy's assistant Mia and claims a deep connection with oher, and Amy eventually has sex with Danny's brother, Paul.]]

* 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.

* MistakenForCheating: Naomi starts investigating the road rage incident and figures out that Amy and Danny are involved...but she jumps to the conclusion that Amy cheated on George with Danny and it ended badly. Amy is so shocked by the accusation that she laughs in Naomi's face, offending the latter further.

* TimeSkip: Episode 7 is set eight months after episode 6 and changes the status quo of the characters: Danny [[spoiler:has taken over the construction company and has bought his parents a home]] while Amy [[spoiler:has gotten very rich by selling her company and is on better terms with George.]] That said, their petty feud gets in the way of these positive developments when they reunite.
* UnbrokenVigil: The series ends with [[spoiler:Amy waiting by Danny's bedside after he is shot by George. She eventually climbs in bed to cuddle with him until he recovers enough to put his arm around her]].

* VivaLasVegas: The characters go to Vegas in episode 4. Amy goes there for a work conference and Paul steals Danny's truck to follow her. Danny and Isaac promptly go as well to get the truck back, since they need it for a construction job. The action is primarily limited to Amy's swanky hotel (where Danny and Paul consider gambling and eating from the buffet).

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Heavily leaning towards DownerEnding. [[FireForgedFriends A shared near death experience allows Danny and Amy to squash their beef]], but only after it costs both of them their professional lives, their personal relationships, their physical health and most likely their public image to the extent that all they have is eachother.]]

The show is about two strangers -- struggling contractor Danny Cho (Creator/StevenYeun) and successful but unfulfilled businesswoman Amy Lau (Creator/AliWong) -- who share an incident of road rage with each other. The event spirals into an escalating feud between the two that threatens their individual personal lives.

* MirrorCharacter: The conceit of the story is that besides their [[SlobsVersusSnobs different social classes]] resulting in an EscalatingWar, Danny and Amy are ''extremely'' similar. This is something made clear not just in the identical way they react to the road rage incident and their rare moments of connection, but also in their backstories: both experienced family drama as a result of their ImmigrantParents and are projecting successful futures to motivate themselves.

* BourgeoisBohemian:
** Jordan, the home improvement chain store owner Amy is hoping to sell her small business to, expresses interest in (read: culturally appropriates) the art and philosophies of other cultures and has an otherwise 'zen' (read: wishywashy) personality.
** Amy's husband is the son of an artist and himself a potter, though downplayed in that his wife Amy is the main breadwinner.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Danny buys numerous hibachi grills with the intention of setting them off in an enclosed space (like a motel room) in hopes of killing himself via Carbon Monoxide poisoning. [[BungledSuicide Because he has no idea how said poisoning works, he fails]]]].

* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:Danny may be a short-tempered guy who gets into petty squabbles and refuses to own up to his actions most of the time, but he’s horrified that he nearly killed June while trying to set Amy’s Mercedes Benz on fire.]]

* HiddenDepths; Despite being lazy and very naive, Paul isn't oblivious to Danny's depression and overcompensation, also being perceptive enough not to trust Isaac. [[spoiler:He also managed to get multiple admission letters to college.]]
* HouseHusband: Amy is driving herself nutty with her successful small business. Her husband George works from home in his own time (he's a sculptor) and is usually the one driving their daughter around.

* InsistentTerminology: Danny isn't a "handyman", he's a ''contractor''.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Desconstructed. Danny has tremendous insecurity and takes it all out on his role as Paul's older brother, constantly needing him around to protect him. For this to happen, he resorts to actions such as [[spoiler: throwing away Paul's admission letters.]]

* NeverMyFault: Because of his need to see himself as successful, Danny often tries to divert fault from himself. Near the end, he learns that [[spoiler:his parents' house burned down because Danny himself installed faulty wiring]]. His response is to [[spoiler:try and frame Amy for it]], a decision that has catastrophic consequences.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Amy's mother-in-law likes to snark about how Amy is raising her daughter and how the house always needs remodeling.

* PowerHair: Amy's decision to start finalizing the business deal that will make her extremely rich is accompanied by a haircut that gets rid of her long dark hair for a chic blonde bob.
* SelfMadeWoman: Danny assumes Amy was only able to start her own multimillion-dollar company because she married into 'art money' -- her father-in-law Haru Nakai was a famous artist. However, Amy actually made most of the money herself by working very hard for years, and it is pointedly said that Haru left his son George with very little except for some valuable art pieces.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: Danny's cousin Isaac who is involved in some illegal activities and makes Danny's life even more difficult every time he gets out of prison.

* WouldNotHurtAChild: [[spoiler:At one point Danny tries to set Amy’s car on fire but backs out when he sees June in the back.]]

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Desconstructed. Danny has tremendous insecurity and takes it all out on his role as Paul's older brother, constantly needing him around to protect him. For this to happen, he resorts to actions such as [[spoiler: throwing away Paul's admission letters.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Heavily leaning towards DownerEnding. [[FireForgedFriends A shared near death experience allows Danny and Amy to squash their beef, but only after it costs both of them their professional lives, their personal relationships, their physical health and most likely their public image to the extent that all they have is eachother.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Heavily leaning towards DownerEnding. [[FireForgedFriends A shared near death experience allows Danny and Amy to squash their beef, but only after it costs both of them their professional lives, their personal relationships, their physical health and most likely their public image to the extent that all they have is eachother.

* AwfulWeddedLife: Amy and George are married. She's not satisfied with the sex, and he feels that she's emotionally distant. [[spoiler:George is attracted to Amy's assistant Mia and claims a deep connection with her, and Amy eventually has sex with Danny's brother, Paul.]]

* TimeSkip: Episode 7 is set eight months after episode 6 and changes the status quo of the characters: Danny [[spoiler:has taken over the construction company and has bought his parents a home]] while Amy [[spoiler:has gotten very rich by selling her company and is on better terms with George.]] That said, their petty feud gets in the way of these positive developments when they reunite.

* EscalatingWar: The series starts with a fairly mundane altercation in a store parking lot and escalates into a full blown road rage incident. Over the ensuing series, the two parties involved partake in increasingly elaborate ways of antagonising each other, which eventually results in [[spoiler:Amy's divorce, Paul cutting off Danny, Isaac in prison likely for life, and Jordan and Michael dead]].