Meanwhile, Ashley and Austin’s idealism and belief in true love is shaken as they find themselves getting deeper and deeper into a murky underworld involving the club’s new millionaire owner, Chairwoman Park.<\/p>\n
Melton says his character and Ashley are “in the honeymoon phase” at the beginning.<\/p>\n
“What you see them do is navigate a world with the constructs of capitalism,” he says. “The country club was a great example and a great structure for that, with the hierarchy of class.”<\/p>\n
Lee says the new series was inspired by a real-life row he witnessed – but one that involved boomers (the generation aged in their 60s upwards).<\/p>\n
However, Lee thought it would be more interesting to have younger characters, “where the generation divide could be smaller”, he says.<\/p>\n
“Much like society, we’re brainwashed – by social media, by the headlines, by those in charge – to beef and squabble with each other.<\/p>\n
“You’ve got Gen Z and millennials having this feud, when really the thing that we should be beefing with is the billionaire characters in society like Chairwoman Park, and it’s all kind of a distraction that actually enables those in power to puppeteer everybody.<\/p>\n
“That felt like an appropriate microcosm for what’s going on right now.”<\/p>\n
The anthology show’s running theme of anger is “just the wrapping paper” for those deeper issues, he says.<\/p>\n
“When you open the box, there’s actually other stuff going on. And I think that’s true of the world.”<\/p>\n
Beef season two is on Netflix now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Ashley and Austin’s idealism and belief in true love is shaken as they find themselves getting deeper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-542814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}