In 'Beef,' Ali Wong and Steven Yeun play two dissatisfied characters who are fed up with daily life
of a meat stall, which showrunner Lee Sung Jing included in his PowerPoint pitch for the show—an image chock-full of fresh beef.
The show opens on the titular beef, a road rage incident between Wong’s Amy, an overworked, self-made entrepreneur with a seemingly charmed life, and Yeun’s Danny, a depressed, struggling contractor with a chip on his shoulder. The sustained honk of Amy’s white SUV lights a longstanding fuse within both drivers.
“We rage until we loop out to the other side,” Yeun tells TIME. “And you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m the same as you. We’re broken in the same way.’”is trying to say any one specific thing. The show takes one moment—a road rage incident in a big-box store parking lot—with two specific characters at particular points in their lives, and lets the events unfold organically from there.
But, Wong says, what she took away personally from her experience on the show was that “it’s just really important to connect with people, in a healthy way, when you can.” “Make an effort to do that. Because if you don’t, you might fall into this situation where, in an effort to connect, you’re being really self-destructive,” she says.is Lee’s meditation on a ubiquitous sadness, inherent in so many people, that burns into anger. At one point while making the show Lee broke down in tears talking about his
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