Keeping it Together: Is anyone OK right now? What Netflix's 'Beef' tells us about rage
Quick question: Is anyone OK right now?
It's Hannah Yasharoff, wellness and celebrity culture reporter for Paste BN. Like many others, I binge-watched Netflix's new show "Beef" last weekend and can't stop thinking about it. Mostly, I'm fascinated with the way it uniquely showcases rage, underlying trauma and mental health struggles that feel all too familiar in 2023.
Creator Lee Sung Jin told Paste BN that rage is “the Trojan horse to explore this existential void that is in a lot of us, and in me. I continue to struggle with this hollow feeling. In the show, we repeat the line ‘Nothing lasts, everything fades, we’re just a snake eating its own tail.’ Only in the last few years have I come to terms with the fact that this feeling may never go away.”
I talked to a mental health expert about how we can work out these complicated feelings without hurting those around us.
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