{"id":406669,"date":"2026-05-01T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406669\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:09:07","slug":"the-tv-shows-making-fun-of-the-generation-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406669\/","title":{"rendered":"The TV shows making fun of the generation clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Beef delves into a legitimate grievance that many in the younger generation have: the dire economic straits Gen Zers find themselves in, especially those carrying college debt. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rottentomatoes\/reel\/DXX0GiNASmB\/?hl=pt-br\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 cDYatN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In an interview on social media<\/a> Lee Sung Jin revealed, however, that the idea for the plot was spawned by a mundane domestic incident. He overheard a loud argument between a couple living in his Los Angeles neighbourhood, and later, recounting what he&#8217;d witnessed to colleagues, he was surprised at their sharply contrasting reactions. Those in Gen Z were upset and wondered if he had called the police. &#8220;They were gasping, and clutching at their pearls,&#8221; Lee recalls. Whereas Millennial and Gen Xers simply dismissed it. &#8220;Yeah, it&#8217;s a fight,&#8221; they told him, with a shrug.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beef delves into a legitimate grievance that many in the younger generation have: the dire economic straits Gen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-406669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}