What initially started as a road rage problem one fine day turns into a bloody feud that ruins several lives and results in the deaths of some. This forms the basic plot of the new Netflix series, "Beef", created by Lee Sung Jin, where the leads Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) and Amy Lau (Ali Wong) are two characters whose hatred for each other constantly grows until they really do. they try. kill each other. With their entire families being dragged into this seemingly pointless feud, this is how the "meat" comes to an end between these two angry people.
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A bad day at Forsters
After some jerk in a white Benz honks incessantly outside a hardware store called Forsters, construction company owner Danny decides he's had enough of life's constant hurdles. He decides to go after the "guy", and Danny's Benz and the red van engage in a head-to-head chase until Danny gets stuck and the other driver nearly crashes his car, but pulls over at the last minute. As this unknown enemy leaves, Danny memorizes the license plate of the person he decided to ruin his day. It turns out that the 'enemy' is a woman named Amy Lau, who owns an artistic plant shop called Koyohaus. When Amy goes to her fancy Calabasas home with her stay-at-home husband, George, and her little girl June, one might think she's just a rich, arrogant businesswoman who takes pleasure in making others suffer. manual workers. However, Amy actually comes from abject poverty, she is a completely self-taught woman who has single-handedly built her business into what it is today, and she is in tremendous rage and rage because she is too busy taking care of others. . This is a sentiment that her husband George of hers, who comes from a family of wealthy sculptors like Haru Nakai, cannot understand, and when she tries to open up to him, she quickly shuts her down and asks him to keep a journal.
The tragic life of Danny Cho
Danny, on the other hand, can barely keep his head afloat while his construction company suffers, but his brother Paul spends all day investing in cryptocurrencies and playing video games. The older brother has a head full of dreams: he wants to buy land for his elderly Korean parents, build a life for himself, find a good Korean girl, and settle down. However, he has several problems: the motel his parents ran was closed because Danny's cousin Isaac ran a shady business selling counterfeit baby powder; he can't get a loan from the bank because he doesn't have enough money; and on top of that he is mad with rage because someone humiliated him on the way. Danny was at the Forsters' house unsuccessfully trying to return several hibachi grills because he decided not to commit suicide by smoke inhalation when road rage passed, and after constant defeats in his life, he decides to find out who the enemy was in the Benz white. . .
Amy Lau's trial
Amy's life isn't going too well either: her mother-in-law, Fumi, constantly pesters her about Amy's house project, her decision not to send June to a professional art teacher, and basically her nature. Most of all, Amy has been struggling to reach a deal with Jordan Forster, an extremely unpleasant and arrogant billionaire who promised to buy Koyohaus but has yet to reach a deal. What really pushes Amy over the edge is that a Korean handyman (Danny) comes to her house when George is nowhere near her and urinates on her European hardwood floor in revenge when he finds out she was the one driving the car. . Furious, she posts negative reviews of Danny on Yelp and later, at an expo, she has a whispered argument with George in which she blames him for being too mainstream in everything she does. Her frustration with him stems from her extremely positive outlook on life and the mantra that money isn't everything. The only reason she feels this way is because of her generational wealth, and she can't understand her wife's struggles. Desperate for revenge on the man who humiliated her in her own home, and enraged, she Amy paints smears on her red van while he's out at a club. She also creates a fake identity using Kayla's name and her employee Mia's photos of her to lure Danny's gullible brother Paul.
a family feud
Seeking revenge, Danny tries to set Amy's car on fire, but is shocked to see June inside. Overwhelmed by enormous guilt; he joins the Orange County Church for Koreans, where her former love Veronica, now pregnant by her husband Edwin, sings on the Praise Team. While attending a show hosted by Edwin and others, Danny breaks down and cries as the pain knocks him to the ground. He decides to help reform the church pro bono. On the other hand, Paul finally arrives at Koyohaus to find Mia, where Amy confesses that she was fishing for him and he ends up kissing her.
A case and a robbery
Jordan offers Amy a deal to buy Koyohaus for $10 million, but Amy will have to stay on for another five years as the face of Koyohaus. While Amy goes to Las Vegas with Jordan for a conference, Paul follows Amy there and the two have a very fun night in her hotel room, while Danny and Isaac spend the whole night looking for him. The next morning, Paul is found and Isaac beats him up while Danny takes the keys to the van Paul had taken to drive to Las Vegas. Walking out of it, Danny sees Amy giving a speech and tries to expose her as the vengeful woman who was involved in a road rage incident and then painted insults on her truck later. Isaac and Danny are arrested, but only the former is charged with prison and needs money to stay out of prison. So Isaac and his two henchmen take over Danny's construction business and are providing renovation services to the church, but pocketing all the money the church has received as a loan. To earn money, Danny befriends George under the assumed name of Zane, hoping to steal his prized work of art, but as he dates the boy, he realizes he's a good man and shouldn't be let down. steal. Danny tries to call off the plan, but Isaac's minions Bobby and Michael won't give up.
Amy invites Paul over and the two have an intense love affair while her husband is in Ojai, arranging to stay. Afterwards, Paul asks her for money, but an argument breaks out and she throws him out of the house and regrets it. After Amy leaves, Fumi sneaks in to steal a precious chair that her husband made because she's in financial trouble, but she's not alone. Bobby and Michael also sneaked in to steal whatever they could find and ran into Fumi, who shot them. As the robbers escape, Fumi trips and falls, and when the ambulance arrives, Jordan's sister-in-law Naomi realizes this and is already gathering evidence that Amy was the other person in traffic.
Naomi comes to meet Fumi, who was found asleep, so she ends up threatening Amy to expose Amy as the other angry driver, clearly due to her jealousy of Jordan paying more attention to Amy. Fumi pretended to be asleep and overheard the whole conversation, so she tells Naomi that Amy wasn't behind the wheel, but the hypocritical Naomi wants to bring Danny down anyway, so a panicked Danny throws Isaac under. The bus. He anonymously reports to Naomi's neighborhood watch that Isaac was the one driving the red truck, and the probationer is sent to prison with 5 to 10 years in prison. While pretending to be completely clueless when he talks to Isaac, he steals the stash of money his cousin gave him in trust. Also, Paul and Danny, brothers once again now that his younger sister has fallen in love, dominate the church basketball game while Edwin throws a tantrum.
The good life
Eight months after Danny destroyed the competition on the basketball court, things are looking up for the Cho brothers and their construction company has reached enormous heights. With the stolen money, Danny built a house for his parents, Paul has his own apartment, Danny leads the worship team, and Veronica's friend Esther is his girlfriend. Turns out life can't get any better for him right now. He meets George at a cafe and is invited to an exhibition George is doing, and also offers Danny the opportunity to talk to his wife, who is depressed, just like Danny. At the exhibit, Danny meets Amy and she quietly asks him to leave; she then notices a tattoo on her waist and realizes it's the same tattoo he saw on her brother's phone. Danny yells 'Kayla' and Amy immediately turns around, but Danny is already leaving. When he's in her car, Amy chases after him, but he tells her that he has an illness and goes home to tell Paul that Amy faked everything with Paul just to get back at Danny. At Amy's house, he wonders if she should confess to cheating on her to George, but decides against it.
expose
The next morning, Amy learns from a phone notification of an arrival at her door that Paul rang the doorbell and informed George that he slept with her. When Amy returns home, George is gone, taking June with him. When Danny takes his family to his parents' new house, he sees that it has caught fire and is devastated. Paul tells his brother that he exposed his affair with Amy to her husband, for what may have been his revenge, when he sees Edwin reversing his car. That night, Danny sneaks into Edwin's house and attacks him, but the guy says that he ordered magazines with Danny's name just because he was jealous of how much his wife praised Danny. Realizing Edwin's situation, Danny helps him up and lets go of his anger at him, but now his target was someone else.
villain's entrance
In Amy's mind, she flashed back to her traumatic childhood and the fights her parents used to have, due to their poverty, and how the whole family kept secrets from each other because they never said the unfortunate things out loud. Fumi managed to get George back and explained to Amy that she should say that she never had anything physical with Paul, but determined to break the toxic cycle of hiding things, Amy confessed to all the horrible things she had done along the way. anger incident. Broken and in disbelief at the stranger she married, George filed for divorce, but she pleaded with him not to take June from him.
Danny found out that faulty electrical wiring caused the fire and that it was not arson, but decided to tell Paul that it really was arson and blamed Amy. However, instead of going straight to Amy's house to get back at her, he chose to frame her. When Amy was at Jordan's exquisite bungalow to discuss the bungalow, Danny showed up at Amy's house with plans to plant evidence in her house. However, George, who already knew who Danny really was, did not want to let him in, but in the end he changed his mind and let him in. After planting the evidence, Danny is about to leave when George pulls a gun on him and says the trick is up, and a fight ensues, where Danny ends up knocking George out. With the police on the way, he flees in his truck when he sees June in the backseat. After he shows up at her apartment with June, Isaac and his henchmen later break in, because Amy also informed the police that Isaac wasn't driving, and Amy gets a call that her daughter is safe, but Isaac needs $500,000 in cash. . Amy asks him to go to Jordan's house and steal everything he has, and the tied up Danny and Paul are taken for a ride, along with Isaac, Michael, Bobby, and of course, June.
The match
Isaac and Michael break into Jordan's house and start robbing, while Paul suffocates Bobby and they put June in a different car before entering Jordan's house. When the police arrive, Jordan and Naomi flee towards the panic room, but Naomi is the first to arrive and presses the door which cuts Jordan in half. A shootout ensues and Michael is killed while Isaac is arrested. Paul and Danny try to escape, but the older brother can't make it to the fence and confesses to Paul how he threw out Paul's college applications so they could be the same. Paul leaves, but two shots are heard and Danny is terrified that his brother is dead. He runs away from the bungalow and takes a car to escape.
Amy discovers that she received a notice not to contact George or June until a court hearing, and is dealing with everything when Danny's car pulls up next to her. Another episode of road rage begins and they run off the cliff into the desert. Both are badly injured and eat a fruit that turns out to be poisonous, causing them to vomit incessantly. While dazed and sick, Danny and Amy have a spiritual experience where they finally realize that they are very much alike and understand each other's pains in life. They forgive each other, and in the morning, they are walking towards civilization when they briefly receive a signal and dozens of text messages arrive. Danny is helping Amy through a tunnel when George arrives and thinking that Danny is hurting her, he ends up shooting him.
Explanation of the end of 'Beef': what happens to Danny?
We find Danny on a fan while Amy is sitting behind him. Slowly, she rises from the bed and snuggles into him, and then, in the blink of an eye, Danny puts his arm around her. This confirms that Danny is not only alive but conscious and that he has come to care about the woman with whom he had this intense animosity. The psychedelic trip caused by the rotten fruit ends up revealing the true selves of the two people, and they realize how broken they both were and how they had never been understood like this before going through this experience. They understand why they were both so furious with life up to that point and how cruel life has been to them, so they find themselves in this mess and start looking out for each other, as shown in the final moments. If “Beef” season 2 comes around, we might see the former enemies together.
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