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“Beef 2”: Perpetrators and Victims of Big Tech’s Digital Domination

Logotype of Beef (TV series)

Beef has a double meaning. On the one hand it is meat, and on the other a feud.

The latter definition holds sway in “Beef 2,” an eight-episode series streaming on Netflix now. The series creator, Lee Sung Jin, gained notoriety with his Emmy-award winning “Beef,” a 2023 series that follows a road rage incident between two adults, Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, that descends into violent retribution.

In both series, Jin captures aspects of the class structure in capitalist America: income and wealth inequality driving personal instability, fueling divisions of class, ethnicity and gender.

In “Beef 2,” Oscar Issac and Carey Mulligan portray an upwardly mobile couple in their 40s who are treading water. They are hot and cold with each other, physically and verbally.

He works as a general manager of a country club with a $300,000........

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