Fans of dark comedies can't stop raving about the new Netflix series Beef, which features Ali Wong and Steven Yeun as two people caught up in a wild fight after a road rage incident brings them into one another's lives. The series has even gotten high honors from Rotten Tomatoes, which is saying a lot!
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The pair star opposite one another as two people from different walks of life caught up in a feud neither of them saw coming.
A near-miss accident in a parking lot set Ali and Steven's characters off on a 10-episode fight of their lives.
The series follows Steven, who plays a down-on-his-luck contractor, and Ali, who plays an influencer from the other side of town, as they try to one up each other as their frenzied fighting gets more and more unhinged.
Neither one of them expects to connect with the other one.
The Daily Mail reported that Netflix described Beef as showing how "the increasing stakes of their feud unravel their lives and relationships in this darkly comedic and deeply moving series."
Fans can't get enough of the show and have been raving about it online since it dropped on April 6.
It's getting high praise from fans who have gotten caught up in the fraught emotion of the duo's unhappiness.
Viewers have been calling it the best thing to appear on Netflix in a long time.
"Beef is a masterwork of pettiness and jaw-dropping escalation, riotously funny and genuinely profound, digging into how 'hurt people' hurt people," one fan wrote. "Steven Yuen and Ali Wong give world-class performances. 2023's best TV series so far."
As if that wasn't convincing enough, another fan compared it to a different runaway hit. "Stayed up all night obsessively watching Beef," the person wrote. "I don't think I've been this tense/mouth agape since Game of Thrones."
Critics are also raving about the series.
According to Yahoo!, not only is the show currently highly popular in the United States at the moment — it's sitting in second place in ranking of the top 10 most popular series in the country — but it also has scored the coveted 100% critic rating from Rotten Tomatoes.
That means 100% of the critics who have viewed and rated the show have loved it.
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Some of the popularity likely has to do with the production company.
A24 Productions — the company behind mega hits like The Whale, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and Midsommar — worked with Netflix to get the dark comedy to the screen. Given its record and the early reviews from fans and critics alike, we totally get why people are calling this must-see TV.
We can't wait to check it out!
