Lee Sung Jin’s Beef, dropping on Netflix April 6, kicks off with a high-speed car chase through the residential streets of LA’s San Fernando Valley after a near fender bender in the parking lot of Forsters, a fictional Costco-like store. Danny Cho (Steven Yeun), a down-on his luck contractor, initially assumes that his road rage nemesis was a man driving his old pickup truck. As the camera quickly shows, Dominic Toretto is actually a woman driving a white Mercedes SUV.
Amy Lau (Ali Wong), a self-made entrepreneur, slowly regains her composure after she has left her garage. Her ensemble – an ivory cable-knit bucket hat (with the brim playfully flipped up), a quilted oatmeal jacket by Tonlé, and a tonal Eileen Fisher cashmere sweater – feels as soft and calming as Amy’s Insta-popular plant brand, Kōyō Haus. It is also antithetical to her earlier code red outburst. “She is very curated in that ‘Instagram-y’ way,” says costume designer Helen Huang. This idea of contradictions – that underneath our pristinely curated appearances is a simmering well of complexity, fury, and…
