Beef: A darkly comedic feast of vengeance and vulnerability

Published April 27, 2023 10:29am ET



Joni Mitchell, in her 1971 melancholic ballad “River,” wistfully sang about hiding pain and longing behind a facade and pretending to be happy for the sake of those around her. It is this theme that Netflix’s newest offering, Beef, from writer and director Lee Sung Jin, creatively packages into a dark comedy.

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