Comic High Jinks and Repressed Despair in Netflix’s “Beef”

The drama, starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, is a study of male loneliness—a familiar theme in prestige TV that finds renewed urgency in an Asian American context.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/17/beef-tv-review-netflix

Around the season’s halfway point, I began excitedly telling friends that I’d never seen a more Korean American show. (Not that there’s a lot of competition.) Konglish peppers the scenes between the Chos, as do Koreatown staples like musical rice cookers, space-age massage chairs, and the singsongy ringtone of the Korean