'Beef' is about anger, emptiness and the meaning of life

'Beef' is about anger, emptiness and the meaning of life Enlarge this image toggle caption Andrew Cooper/Netflix Andrew Cooper/Netflix When we meet Danny Cho, he's going through the motions of a bleak ritual of consumer life: returning something at a big-box store. At the same time, though, the show doesn't feel cynical; it's as fully invested in Amy and Danny's desire for connection and redemption as it is in their viciousness and emptiness. Still, it's fascinating to see Wong's take-no-prisoners comic persona translate so beautifully into Amy's fury without turning her into a caricature of a Silicon Valley startup boss. As rare as it is to see an empathetic portrayal of anger on television, it's even more rare to see an empathetic portrayal of women's anger — let alone Asian American women's anger — unless it originates with abuse from men, which Amy's does not.