Netflix’s “Beef” has won the Golden Globe for best television limited series.
The A24-produced comedy-drama, which stars actor Steven Yeun and comedian Ali Wong, made history by becoming the first show created by and starring Asian Americans to win in its category.
“Our show is actually based on a real road rage incident that actually happened to me, so I’d be remiss not to thank that driver,” creator Lee Sung Jin joked while accepting the award. “Sir, I hope you honk and yell and inspire others for years to come.”
The four other nominees were “All the Light We Cannot See,” “Daisy Jones and the Six,” “Fargo” and “Lessons in Chemistry.”
Leads Wong and Yeun both took home acting Golden Globes for their roles in Beef earlier in the night, as well.
“Beef,” which was released on Netflix in April, revolves around the struggling, high-strung contractor Danny, played by Yeun, and the successful but unfulfilled business owner Amy, portrayed by Wong. After the pair cross paths in a fit of road rage, each becomes fixated on destroying the other; all the while, their own lives are collapsing around them.
The series quickly gained critical acclaim and was praised for its depiction of the Korean American evangelical experience, as well as several other aspects of race and Asian American life. However, it quickly became marred by controversy after the resurfacing of 2014 comments by artist David Choe, a cast member, detailing his self-proclaimed “rapey behavior” toward a Black masseuse. The comments were criticized as glorifying and making light of rape and sexual assault. At the time, Choe wrote on the website of his now-defunct podcast, “DVDASA,” that the story was a fabrication, calling the podcast a “complete extension of my art.”
When the incident came up again in 2017, Choe said in a statement that he “relayed a story simply for shock value.”
“Though I said those words, I did not commit those actions. It did not happen,” he said…
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