“Revenge is best served raw,” reads the tagline of BEEF, the new dark comedy series that follows two strangers, Danny (Steven Yeun) and Amy (Ali Wong), involved in a road rage incident and the cycle of retribution that ensues.

And yes, the duo is constantly dishing up their respective retaliations in an intense, unfiltered, pain-inducing state. But continuing on with this meaty metaphor, the beefs themselves — as in the individual grievances that lead to each new act of vengeance — actually differ drastically across degrees of doneness. So why not categorize BEEF’s beefs the same way you would beef-beef? From rare to charcoaled hockey puck, here they are. 

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The Parking Lot Beef 

The beef that started it all. Both our main characters are contemplating some heavy life stuff (Danny about his will to live, Amy about her plant company’s pending acquisition) and leaving the parking lot of home improvement store Forsters when their vehicles almost collide. Danny did turn around to back out of his parking spot, but could he have been paying better attention? Yes. Was Amy probably driving too fast for a parking lot? Also yes. Danny slams on the brakes to avoid backing into her, and Amy responds with excessive honking and an outstretched middle finger from her driver’s side window.

RARE: Both offenses are pretty minor since no person, SUV or pick-up truck was actually harmed. 

The Car Chase Beef

Amy’s flipped bird sets Danny off, though, and he pursues her pedal to the metal. The two recklessly weave through traffic throughout some heavily residential areas. Amy throws trash into Danny’s windshield to impede his driving and ultimately ends things by accelerating backwards right towards him — stopping just shy of a life-threatening T-boning.

MEDIUM-WELL: This was a pretty intense escalation of the parking lot beef, and people could’ve died. (For a second there, Danny thought he was actually going to.) And then there’s the matter of poor Mr. Firouz’s destroyed flower beds. 

The Tamago Chair Beef

Jordan (Maria Bello), the Forsters boss who decides whether Amy’s company acquisition goes through, is obsessed with a chair created by artist Haru Nakai, the late father of Amy’s husband, George (Joseph Lee). George initially tells Jordan it’s not for sale, offending her and potentially jeopardizing Amy’s deal. However, after some persuading from Jordan’s sister-in-law turned wife, Naomi (Ashley Park), and out of guilt over an “emotional entanglement” with Amy’s employee Mia (Mia Serafino), George relents.  

MEDIUM-RARE: The sale lets George feel like a hero, but turns out it wasn’t necessary. And while parting with the Tamago chair brings up a lot of daddy issues for George, at the end of the day, this beef mostly feels like #richpeopleproblems. 

The Bathroom Leak Beef 

And by “leak,” we mean urine. Using her license plate number, Danny finds Amy’s address online and shows up as a contractor offering thoughts on her home’s recent remodel. They actually seem to hit it off — until he asks to use her guest bathroom and pees all over it. 

MEDIUM: Urine is gross and Amy’s floors are really nice. (“This is European oak, motherf*cker!”)

The Yelp Trolling Beef

Amy immediately leaves a bunch of one-star Yelp reviews on Danny’s handyman page — telling the internet he peed on her floor and has bad breath.

MEDIUM-RARE: It’s potentially affecting his livelihood, but he only had three stars to begin with, so…

The Motel Stalking Beef

With George along for the ride, Amy now uses Danny’s license plate number to discover his address at the motel where he lives with younger brother Paul (Young Mazino). The couple arrive and meet the owner, who explains that he took over the motel from Danny’s parents after a police raid (more on that later), but they don’t end up seeing Danny. 

RARE: Nothing really happens, but the owner mentions the encounter to Danny’s cousin Isaac (David Choe). Isaac gives Danny a heads-up that Amy and George are poking around, which prompts Danny to leave Amy a threatening voicemail and incites more vengeful acts.  

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The Catfishing Beef 

After screenshotting bikini photos of Mia, Amy creates a fake account with them and sends sexy Instagram messages to At Cho Service Construction, Danny’s company. But Paul receives them instead and replies, instigating what becomes a romantic back-and-forth.

Side Beef: Catfishing Part 2, DANNY VS. GEORGE
Danny pretends to be a fellow biking enthusiast called Zane, and intercepts George on his usual route. His plan was to gather information to use against Amy, but Danny and George strike up what might be considered a true friendship, except for the fact that it’s based on lies. 

MEDIUM-WELL: Catfishing i.e. emotional manipulation is never cool. 

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The Veronica Beef

Edwin (Justin H. Min), the guy who ended up marrying Danny’s high school sweetheart, Veronica (Alyssa Gihee Kim), starts his own mostly one-sided beef with Danny. When a clearly not-over-Veronica Danny starts attending the couple’s church, he threatens Edwin at every turn — from his musical ability as part of the praise team to his intramural basketball skills. After Veronica admits that Danny was the best she ever had and stops wanting Edwin to touch her, Edwin signs Danny up for multiple magazine subscriptions. 

MEDIUM-RARE: A few surprise magazine bills and church slights are harmless in the grand scheme of things, but you do kinda feel for both of them. 

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The Truck Tagging Beef 

With her catfishing plans foiled, Amy decides to direct message Danny another way…in white paint, all over his truck. She tags “I CAN’T DRIVE” on the hood, “I AM POOR” on one side and “I’M A B--CH” on the tailgate. Danny drives straight to her house with a crowbar, but security alarms scare him away. 

MEDIUM: This is defacement of private property and all that. Plus, what she wrote was just mean.

The Attempted Arson Beef 

Thankfully, Danny notices Amy’s daughter, June (Remy Holt), in the backseat before he drops a match to set Amy’s white SUV on fire. He quickly tries to wipe away the gasoline he poured — and scrams.

WELL-DONE: Arson is some psychopathic felony behavior, and toddlercide?! Even Danny says, “What am I doing? I almost set a baby on fire!”

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The Vegas Beefs 

At this point, Paul and Amy are in full situationship mode and Paul steals Danny’s truck to visit Amy at a work conference in Vegas. But Paul has no idea the truck is full of stolen goods (courtesy of Danny and Isaac), or that Amy and Danny know each other. Danny and Isaac arrive in Sin City to take back the truck and its cargo, and — keys in hand — they happen to pass by the room where Amy is speaking on stage as part of a panel. Danny grabs a mic and lays out their beefs — from parking lot honking to Yelp trolling to truck tagging — before a live audience before security intervenes.

MEDIUM: Most conference attendees seem to dismiss Danny’s outburst as drunken rambling, but it does lead to Naomi confronting Amy and threatening her company’s future acquisition deal. Danny and Isaac also end up in custody, and Isaac is put on house arrest because of his criminal record. (It was his shady dealings that led to the aforementioned police raid and previous jail time.) 

The Break-In Beef

Danny hatches a scheme to have two of Isaac’s friends, Michael (Andrew Santino) and Bobby (Rek Lee aka Rekstizzy), pose as plumbers and loot Amy’s home. However, Danny’s friendship with George prompts a change of heart and he tells the guys to abort the mission. They don’t listen. And when they arrive, they encounter George’s mom, Fumi (Patti Yasutake), who chases them off at gunpoint, but falls down some stairs and seriously injures herself in the process. 

Side Beef: Blackmailing | FUMI VS. AMY
Why was Fumi at George and Amy’s home in the first place? Turns out she’s struggling financially and needed to take some of her husband’s art pieces from George’s collection to sell. In her own sneaking around, she finds out about Amy’s affair with Paul and later covers for her with Naomi. In exchange for her secret-keeping, Amy treats her to shopping sprees whenever she wants. 

WELL-DONE: Shots are fired and Fumi ends up in the hospital. 

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The Kidnapping Beef 

Danny visits George at home, intending to plant evidence that would incriminate Amy. But at this point, Amy’s come clean to George about everything. George tries to hold Danny until police arrive, but Danny escapes, accidentally knocking George unconscious in the process. As sirens approach, Danny flees to his truck and has already pulled away when he realizes June has snuck into his backseat. 

MEDIUM-WELL: George may have a concussion and while Danny never intended to put June in harm’s way, her abduction leads to the biggest beef of all. 

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The Big-Time Showdown Beef

Desperate for cash and determined to exact revenge on Danny (watch the show to fill in the details), Isaac decides to ransom June and calls Amy demanding $500,000. Amy, who’s over at Jordan Forster’s house trying to get the Tamago chair back, convinces him to come there instead — promising that Jordan’s stuff is worth way more than half a mil. Loaded up with guns and Dick Cheney masks, Isaac drives over with Michael, Bobby, Danny, Paul and June in tow. We won’t spoil everything here, but let’s just say the heat turns way up.  

Side Beef: Coveted Wife | NAOMI VS. JORDAN
For months, Jordan’s been brushing Naomi aside, and Naomi suspects it’s because now Jordan has set her sights on Amy. When the three are tied up and held at gunpoint during the showdown, Naomi sees Jordan reach for Amy’s hand. When she realizes that Amy knows the perpetrators, she blurts out to Jordan, “This is who you want to leave me for?” 

Side Beef: College Applications | DANNY VS. PAUL
As a tactic to convince Paul to save himself by abandoning Danny at Jordan’s house, Danny confesses the worst thing he ever did to his brother: trashing Paul’s college applications before they could be sent out. “I just wanted us to be the same,” Danny tells him. “I’ve been holding you down your whole life. You gotta get away from me.” 

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? Paul’s future was irrevocably stolen from him and people die. So yeah, these beefs are beyond burnt.

The Car Chase Beef, Part 2 

As Amy emerges from the showdown’s aftermath, she learns from law enforcement that George has taken June home without letting Amy see her. After getting into her car, Amy stops on the road to read an email on her phone, which informs her that emergency child custody has been granted to George. At that exact moment, Danny pulls up next to her in a Hummer he stole from Jordan’s place. They exchange a look before Danny speeds off. Now Amy’s the one chasing in this full-circle moment. 

MEDIUM-WELL: This time, Danny and Amy are really only endangering themselves. But they manage to do so in spectacular fashion: It’s Danny who throws up the middle finger this time, distracting them until they both drive off a cliff. What a metaphor, right? 

Steven Yeun and Ali Wong Have Major BEEF in This ClipIt all starts with a little road rage.

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