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Ali Wong and Steven Yeun serve rage and existential dread with ‘Beef’

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Television writer Lee Sung Jin had only briefly stalled at a green light when the person behind him began to honk aggressively. As Lee jolted alert, a white BMW SUV pulled up beside him. The driver rolled down his window, screamed some choice words and drove away.

Ordinarily, Lee might have brushed off the incident. But he and the BMW both turned out to be taking the same exit in Santa Monica, California. It occurred to Lee that, by simply going home, he was now following the angry driver.

He wasn’t doing it on purpose. But what if he had been? He began

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