BEEF

Our Review

A road-rage incident that curdles into a war of mutually assured destruction — and the best 10 episodes of television Netflix has released this decade. Steven Yeun and Ali Wong play two strangers whose parking-lot meltdown becomes the axis both their lives spin around, and the show’s thesis is uncomfortably true: rage is just grief with somewhere to put itself.

Yeun’s Danny Cho is a failing contractor crushed under the weight of immigrant-family expectation; Wong’s Amy Lau is a successful businesswoman who has everything and feels nothing. Their feud escalates with shocking discipline — nobody ever does the sane thing, and you understand every insane choice. The middle stretch goes full Coen-brothers-caper (the chicken sequence, the delivered package), and the finale is a quiet gut-punch that people are still arguing about.

Verdict: Watch it immediately. It’s a locked-room tragedy about the American dream, and it’s frequently very funny while it breaks your heart.