r/BeefTV

I don’t know If anyone has pointed this out yet but we all saw Austin sabotage the IVF treatment. I’m not a doctor and I’m certainly no expert on IVF but I feel like there’s no way It still would’ve worked with a bunch of hand sanitizer mixed in.

Am I wrong?

Also, what are the odds of an IVF facility having such a high success rate?

Maybe I’m looking into It too much but I don’t think that’s Austin’s kid. It might not even be Ashley’s but who knows.

>!Okay, maybe I just like the others much less. But every single one of the main characters were willing to keep quiet about Chairwoman Park’s concealment of the death at Trochos, murdering Woosh, and murdering Dr. Kim and covering it up as a suicide. I’m mainly talking about Austin and Ashley here, actually. Ashley was borderline psycho for hiding the USB drive and Austin is even worse for returning it back to Chairwoman Park so that they can secure themselves a future built on deceit, manipulation, and DEATH.!<

>!Out of everyone, I did not expect to like Eunice as much as I did after finishing the series. Why is this woman the only one with enough of a backbone to expose Chairwoman Park’s illicit activities?! By returning all of the evidence of that drive back to Chairwoman Park, Austin basically condemned her to either death or a life of avoiding the public eye. But I guess the Chairwoman was right, everyone in this show was only interested in serving themselves… except for Eunice of course, who’s probably dead due to her selflessness.!<

>!Out of the main four, Josh was the one I liked most by the end. I mean yes, by taking the fall, Josh is also complicit in concealing all of the horrible things the Chairwoman did. But he is selfless in other ways, mostly so that Lindsay can have a good life. And Lindsay… it was just so stupid of her to flush the phone. She honestly had no real incentive to do that.!< >!😭!<

>!I miss Eunice!!! Any Eunice fans? She’s the only one who actually cared about justice and didn’t let her position in life affect her morals. I also wish we were shown what actually happened to her in the epilogue.!<

I liked the first season and liked the second up until the final episode, it jumped the shark big time, for the following reasons:

•Chairwoman Park murders her own husband, doesn’t feel bad, but just lets these walking time bombs back out into the world that could expose her? She killed her own adopted son for less (he just wanted a promotion), and sent assassins to kill Oscar’s Isaac, but sure let these people who saw her murder her husband out into the world when she had them caged up at her mercy. Give them access to the club where she launders money. I’m calling absolute BS.

•Austin goes back despite seeing a guy get his brains blown out and expects not to be killed after handing over something Chairwoman park didn’t even know he had (his only leverage). He holds all the cards and just gives it up, not even a phone call to negotiate, just shows up and hopes she doesn’t kill him, all so that the show’s director can make a statement or something about the nature of relationships? The whole story revolves around blackmail but not the ending I guess. Also him not turning in the flash drive is a death sentence for Eunice. She is dead and he is directly responsible for killing her. He knew, he’s not that not dumb.

•Austin had zero development to overlook straight murder and risk his life giving up the USB. Zero development, he finally leaves his girlfriend which is the hardest thing he’s ever done, he’s doing the right thing for himself and his friends (he’ll save their lives by getting the authorities involved) but instead he chooses to lie about murder all of a sudden - dude can barely lie about being a physical therapist. It felt so forced.

•The whole “we’re back to where we began and they’re married and running the country club giving the same speech” was a nightmare to experience, just so cliche and boring. An absolute 180 that says nothing that the rest of the show wasn’t already saying. Also, Ashley still has the screenshots and they oversee the very club that is laundering money, AND witnessed Dr. Kim’s murder - they are loose ends!

•Doctor Kim butchered innocent people and manipulated his wife (pretended to leave and turn himself in) to make sure she covers it up so he can continue being a surgeon - because he didn’t want to retire. But then, in the last episode, he gains a conscious because “I’m scared of my wife” even though he’s guilty of murder and he’s suddenly a good guy now who wants to go to the police? He was just screaming a scene ago “they’re lying! They’re not telling us the truth” and she says “calm down honey”. Like what is up with the back breaking 180s!?

• Are we supposed to suddenly care about this “circle of life” white lotus crap in the last 30 seconds of the final episode when there is zero development in that direction? It’s sprung on us like “oh look humans are selfish by nature, circle of life” like guys, that’s philosophy 101. You couldn’t do anything interesting with that concept, just had to cram that “message” down our throats with no buildup.

• To all the people saying “you just didn’t get it, they’re all terrible people” It’s not that the audience doesn’t get that or is uncomfortable that they’re terrible, the creators just don’t do anything with it. It kinda feels surface level. Wasted potential in that regard, the ending was poorly executed and forced.

ok So season one, was jam packed with funny, relatable moments, easy to digest storyline, very real like characters, wonderful storyline, and zero plotholes in the story. Not a single “how did that happen?” Or “that would never likely happen!” Plus a lot of the filming locations gave it a Woodland Hills/ SFV feel to it!! I can’t express it enough, season 1 was absolute GOLDEN.
With that being said, I gave season 2 my best shot despite being skeptical. “It’s gonna be hard to top the last season!”
But darn it, it took me about 3 or 4 re- watches just to make sense of the embezzling and still haven’t figured out the plastic surgeon plot? and if the boss/chairwoman forgave Josh for stealing from the club on that zoom call, then why did he still end up doing 8 years?!. And how are they, the new owners, going to wash $50M via “donations to the club??”
Cant forget the hand sanitizer scene too, how did they end up pregnant?!
see what I mean? Lots of plot holes as one would say which is why I don’t know how to feel about it. I did enjoy it and I am going to finish it tonight (4 episodes left; 4 or 5th re watch!!)

I read so many threads saying how they couldn’t stand Ashley’s character and I disagree.

Not everything is black and white! Throughout the season it was obvious who was the baby in the relationship (Austin). It goes to show how much she was in love with him that she went to those lengths and even gave him enough space imo to do what he wants. If I were in her place and realised that my boyfriend has feelings for someone else I would have acted out too. I understand the toxicity of leeching onto someone who doesn’t want to be with you but we know that Austin isn’t the sharpest one. He gets persuaded and distracted easily. It shows that she understands him and is willing to work around things.

I mostly felt sorry for her. She gets abandoned by her parents, gets no validation from his boyfriend and has to figure shit out! It makes her flawed and real.

Also, Austin is stupid and I can’t stand him!!!!

>!Like bro deserved better!< >!😭!< >!he just wanted be part of the corporate company but got stuck selling skin care products and playing tennis!< >!😞!<

I'm just starting Season 2 and already think it's so much better than Season 1. Do others agree? What do you think it is?

They build all this tension and intensity from episodes 1-6 with the Korean storyline on the back-burner. Episodes 7-8 were completely unorganized. Felt like a completely different show. This show would have benefitted from continuing the drama of the 4 core characters and avoiding the entire Korean storyline. The entire first half of the season is a 8/10 and the final 2 episodes are a 3/10.

When she asked for the divorce she is still scheming him for money and want half the pay when he gets his contract extension.

Good on Josh for walking away from her temper tantrums instead of escalating the situations. He learns how to deal with her after episode one fight.

The funny thing I learn from this show is that her and Ashley never learn when to stop fighting that they ended up coming to blows in Korea.

Josh is the only one who broke out of the cycle by being selfless. Austin almost did, but he foolishly went back to Ashley when all he really needed to do is give the usb to the police and stay single for awhile.

The newest season of Beef didn’t at all feel like season 1. I legit had to keep reminding myself I was watching Beef S2 because I was constantly thinking I was watching The White Lotus.

This fuckass austin and Ashley have spent their lives getting wrecked by capitalism (no health care, bad bosses, rich assholes) and when they get ONE chance to do the right thing, they flip 360.

Austin for all his takes on income equality and what not is such a loser manchild.

This couple deserves each other. Ashley is batshit jealous and insecure of Eunice even when that girl has been nothing but supportive of her and Austin thinks Eunice owes him romance because she treated him as a decent human being.

Honestly, Eunice was the only decent character in the show and she got betrayed because these two illiterate Americans who are too emotionally conspirated to recognise the real enemy. I hope they enjoy kissing more ass at the country club. Congratulations on the life of servitude.

The stage was set, they could have taken it anywhere, but they chose this?!

The whole reason you spend time watching slow burn dramas is because of the surprises you get in some of the episodes but this was quite a boring end to such a great season otherwise.

Maybe I was looking for some sort of victory for the main characters but it ended in a very unrealistic way.

I am sure there must be many who loved it especially because of how it ended. Are you one of those? :)

I must say I really enjoyed season 2 up until the last two episodes. I understand that for the feels and the visuals and the ending to feel better all the characters had to be in Korea. But there was absolutely no reason for Austin (and possibly for Eunice as well) to fly over there. The chairwoman controls the police and the government in Korea, but not in the US. Why didn’t they contact the FBI or Interpol in the US? I feel also that the show wanted desperately to show that people don’t change or that people are individualistic and do not care about others. But Austin has been shown again and again to bend over backwards to help people, he cannot lie AT ALL, and he wants to break up with his fiancé because of a mistake that lead to a dog‘s death. All of a sudden he is ok with letting his love interest be murdered so he can work in a country club. Chairwoman kills her adopted son and her husband, but she lets all those random people who know the truth live (some of them happily ever after). I am sorry I don’t buy any of this.

Im so upset... And for all the people who will disagree, everything in the season up to the last 30 min of ep 8 was absolute perfection. But come on man, I feel like the directors tried to do a quickie with the ending! it felt super rushed and confusing. Nothing made sense whatsoever.

can someone please help me understand what went wrong! I cant seem to pinpoint exactly what went array with the storytelling, but I just don't have a good feeling about this ending.

>!the implication that even after 800 years let alone 8, that Ashley could do what Josh did. !<

Josh not calling the police to the club after nearly getting murdered makes literally zero sense.

He killed in self-defense, he has rope marks on his neck, the other guy is dressed super sketchy, and the police could have easily skimmed the dudes phone to find his connection with chairwoman Park.

Obviously, it wouldn’t be good for business and the club would need new management to take over, but I struggle to see how hiding a murder is a better outcome in this scenario. Hiding the body tossed the self-defense narrative out the bloody window.

I just don’t understand Josh’s reasoning on this one.

So i’ve read loads of comments about people saying “oh the reason why I didn’t like season 2 is because season 1 had a more substantial “beef” in which it was interesting to see how far 2 ppl fck with each others life over that ‘beef’”
like yeah ok cool, that’s what season 1 was about and we all loved it. it was a different yet unorthodoxly relatable plot that seemed vulnerable, captivating and entertaining at the same time with very personal moments.

i think the same can be said about season 2 but what a lot of people are missing is that the ‘beef’ in season 2 isn’t the same as ssn1: instead of it being solely between starkly opposing people with vastly different lives in terms of financial stability, familial relationships and societal expectations ssn2 still retains all of these BUT i feel like the actual ‘beef’ is actually the interconnectedness between people specifically Lindsay and Josh and the role that others play in their life - inserting themselves in: Ashley and Austin’s sense of self preservation and social climbing (i know they’re mirrors of Lindsay and Josh), Mrs Park’s capitalistic ruthlessness and all the people within the club and their transactional relationship with the two protagonists.

The ‘beef’ is the actual strained relationship between everyone in what was formally a closed domain and within that highlight these imposed systems of capitalism, opportunism and selfishness which basically incite the irrational behaviour making everyone crash out like in season 1.

Sorry if that was long winded but was just a thought I had.

Edit: I knew i’d get downvoted for this because I feel like people’s media literacy is fully dead. I didn’t say oh if you didn’t like season 2 you didn’t understand it. NAH. What i’m SAYING is that people have said “season 2 was too different from season 1 and the beef wasn’t the same and i don’t get what the beef was”. this was just my opinion. i knew people in the subreddit were defensive over this show but why are people taking everything as an attack 😭