We’re all walking around with our masks on, behaving badly, our childhood wounds running everything. These masks are crafted to help us make sense of who we are and where we fit in.
So why does a stranger cutting you off land like a personal attack? Usually because there’s something about yourself you’re unhappy with that’s being reflected back.
Beef is a show about exactly that.
Lee Sung Jin is the Emmy-winning writer, director, and showrunner of the series, which earned sixteen nominations for season two. He came up through the writers’ room at It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and is now co-writing Marvel’s X-Men.
The whole show started with a real road rage incident. What he built on top of it works like a forensic pathologist performing an autopsy on culture, identity, ethnicity, capitalism, and the generational divide. In his writers’ room, they call it Jungian shadow work.
The opening scene of season one came out of the worst year of his life. He was living progressively more and more out of alignment with his true self, and that became an incredible lever for transformation and growth.
Jungian Shadow Work & the Autopsy of Culture
Specificity as the Path to Universality
Rise, Fall, Rise: Why Story and Music Are the Same Thing
Rock Bottom as a Trampoline
Samsara & Going Around the Mountain
Self-Optimization as Secular Religion
Millennials, Gen Z & the Generation That Got Erased
The Tone Formula & Running a Room of Hundreds
From “Sonny” to Lee Sung Jin
Peace & Plants,
Rich
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