The big, pivotal question of this great Netflix series meat: Am I perhaps not so broken, so hopeless, so depressed because there is so much to do–but because I have so much to endure? You can somehow “do”; 60-hour work week without a word of encouragement from colleagues or supervisors; Help in the community. The pressures of free time with children, friends and siblings. What’s really bothering you: Does this stomping never stop? And why does she always seem so easy to others? Doesn’t anyone really understand how I feel?
It is at this very point in life that Danny Chu (Stephen Yeun) and Amy Lau (Ali Wong) meet – or rather, they collide. A small incident in a supermarket parking lot leads to a car chase and the two get increasingly worse for each other over the course of the first season’s ten episodes. They will realize, if they talk to each other properly, that they understand each other well and can even help each other. But they still smother each other and push each other harder to bear.
No matter how powerful or rich you are – there is always something going on
They both live in the Los Angeles area, but they come from different worlds: He’s a handyman with notorious financial concerns and plans to bring his poor parents from South Korea to the USA and eventually start a family of his own. She wants to sell her successful lifestyle plant series for ten million dollars so that her husband won’t be the only one spending time with their daughter and raising her in a totally unrealistic way. Husband masturbates over photos who are they staff and brutally annoyed as much as possible with his carefree attitude to the artist’s spoiled son.
What Danny and Amy have in common: frustration with their lives; humiliate others. That it’s never enough or as Danny says: “I always do the right thing – and see where that got me.” This is the theme of the series: It doesn’t matter how powerful or rich you are; They both say, “There is always something.” Something is permanent. whether it be the laziness of the brother, or the selfish ignorance of the investor; The pressure of having to achieve something: There is always something or someone you have to put up with.
What they both have in common: They’re LA Asians, and here’s why meat It’s been praised just like any other series – because being Asian doesn’t come across in a voyeuristic or stereotypical way, but rather: that’s the way it is. Just as Los Angeles appears as what it really is: a yellowish place of self-love, where everyone, despite all the perks, thinks they have it worse than the others; Thus it requires undivided attention all the time.
meat is a stylistically brilliant series, superbly told, fantastically acted – angry, humorous, and above all: honest about life and the fact that you can be lonely, even if you’re never really alone. Creator Lee Sung Jun revealed that he has ideas for several seasons. This is great news.
Beef, ten episodes, on Netflix.
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