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what is going on everyone Elliot here from movie files here to discuss the latest series from
Netflix uh in collaboration with a24 one of my favorite producing companies out there so when
I saw e24 I was excited Netflix has been kind of hit or missed for me last few years their series
tend to be a lot better than some of their movies but then you have the cast of Stephen Yen Ali Wong
the people behind the scenes Supporting Cast this is a show I was very excited for and today we're
going to be discussing is it one of the best series so far this year and is it something
you all will be watching we'll begin to that in today's discussion and I'm not alone unlike these
two people that are broken people and want to be along for all their terrible decisions but I am
not alone today I'm going to bring a special guest in to talk all things about this series
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talked about shows for not just the week that it comes out but for weeks and months later and hey
it might get some Emmy nominations because I think it deserves I think it's that good of a
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dive into talking about the one and only Yutaka representing the horror hour what is going on
to talk about today so things are going good how about yourself really good I I'm actually
really excited to talk about this because yeah I'm the only one on our group that's seen this
so I was just like I need to talk to somebody and it's honestly thanks to you that it got
um put back on my radar because I was like I'm not gonna get those but I'm happy I did here we
are talking about it but hey man again you talking you've been on the channel before we talk scream
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description of this video so you talk I figure we kind of just for those that might not have 10
hours the binge the show we're less than 10 hours with about 30 minutes an episode but just in case
they haven't seen the series in the complete uh story we just kind of talk briefly about spoiler
free portion and then we'll dive some spoiler uh talk a little bit later so initial Impressions
first so starting off with you Taco what did you General Impressions after you got done watching
the series was it one of those series with Netflix where it's all dropped at once so did you watch
it all at once did you break it up into sections and days what was your experience like with beef
well I mean as soon as uh after I finished the first episode I was like I'm just powering
through this entire thing I need to finish this because um I think for me personally I just was
excited to see this cast yeah um and then just the writing was so good uh but I loved it was
basically actions and consequences and you are correct these are two broken people in different
ways and just in different also relationships that I thought was very interesting where you know
Ali Wong's character she's married to uh he's an idiot lovable but an idiot George oh my God
George like I felt so bad for him but he's just he's uh he's old money who's just yeah been very
well taken care of and uh but I I really adored his character and then you've got Danny though
who wants to is a huge people pleaser and cares about his image and just but at what cost and so
I loved just seeing that and then of course those two just effing each other's lives up
that is a perfect way to describe this series and for those two that are again this is our
spoiler-free portion the the premise is pretty simple you have a incident of road rage that
slowly consumes the two main characters which again we have Steven Yin and Ali Wong uh Stephen
plays Danny who you talking was just describing he is someone that is I couldn't really put an age on
the characters I would say he was in his late 30s per se uh he is a yeah yeah he's a he's a handyman
or if you ask him he's a contractor uh who has his parents to lack in Korea and he wants to bring his
parents home don't want to do that he has to work hard meanwhile he has his younger brother Paul
in today's society you know wants to kind of find the easy way to money whether it's crypto currency
or just trying to make a quick Buck uh but he's very young and very much so follows his brother's
footsteps and not the best way possible and then we move over to Ali Wong's character who plays
Amy who's entrepreneur has her own business and like you have mentioned she's married to George
who comes for money where she is the complete opposite she had the kind of work to wish she
got to and she's kind of the bread Runner of the home he's got a stay-at-home Dad Dad he thinks
he's an artist makes his vases because his dad is like this famous artist and he's trying to follow
his footsteps but not not that great as his mother uh who we'll talk about later describes
but we meet Danny at a low spot in his life he is pretty upset and he gets into a situation on the
road and it leads to this domino effect of just pettiness to the highest degree possible and it
leads to and by the way it kind of sounds like a comedy which there are some Community beats
in this show but you're talking I did not expect this show to get as dark as it did it went down
some very dark paths what did you think about kind of the tonal shifts of Comedy drama relatability
Darkness how do you feel about the way the show handled the the themes and the different tones
honestly if it didn't have the comedy this would be I think it would be really heavy to
digest because it goes in so many different ways and there's just there's so much to in
a sense that you want to say like to search for that American Dream but you know it just depends
on how you view it to see every to see Danny want to work so hard to bring his parents over
which right when we talk about how that all plays out you know it's very fascinating to
me because that that there is that culture right right and Amy though she is so just
she's so stressed and tense because she is just trying to be be seen as something
of an accomplishment while her husband didn't really have to do anything right right yeah and
it's I mean even when you see her their house like right which her mother-in-law hate it it
was very interesting it was it was just it was interesting and it was um I really did enjoy I
think probably the the comedic aspect that worked really great in this because it's primarily in all
Asian Asian American cast um to have the token white lady the white devil as they called them
I I mean I was like that that's appropriate for this show yes that's really great so
um yeah I I really found that to be quite humorous so yeah yeah it's but I guess the themes or the
message though I mean this is truly all about mental health in my opinion yeah but I really
did appreciate it and how it was presented it is 100 as the genre alludes to a comedy drama uh and
also let me just kind of backtrack as far as it's created by Lee sung Jin who I'm not too familiar
with his work I think this is one of his bigger uh projects that he's done and he does such a great
job of just as you just alluded to handling the comedy which was much needed because it does get
very dark we find out who these people are where they come from how they were raised how that both
of them were kind of taught at a young age to kind of suppress their emotions and when that
happens sometimes it comes out in the form of road rage so it definitely tackles that side of
what happens when you do not allow your emotions to fully come out or when you keep them bottled
in and you try to just put a smile on your face when you're really crying inside so I thought that
the drama of it all was fantastic you touched on an earlier this is one of the best written shows
I've seen in a very long time because it's so many things and it's one of those shows too for those
that are on the fence of watching if they should watch it definitely do so it's one of those shows
where things have payoffs where you introduce certain things in the very beginning and it
comes that has a huge payoff uh towards the second half of the show especially when certain reveals
happen so the writing is excellent I thought the direction was really solid and the performance
is not only from our main cast our main two leads Stephen Yin and Ali Wong but fumi and Paul George
uh we'll talk you know he has a uncle or a cousin named Isaac who is the character we'll talk more
about in the spoilers and as you mentioned the white devil Jordan is a billionaire uh woman who's
trying to steal culture and tries to appropriate herself and says the most like weird things
shut up but again as a you know Amy's trying to find her way in and doesn't tell Jordan doesn't
tell the people that say wrong things uh that they should be corrected so it's just not only
the leads but The Supporting Cast they everyone has like a moment throughout the series random
character like Naomi who we meet later in the season or in the beginning but she has a little
bit of a big reveal towards the second half so everyone has a moment to shine there's great
payoffs and it just all comes together for just one of the most interesting stories I have seen
it'll again if you look at episode one I did not anticipate us to get from A to Z and everything
in between it's just pure chaos that comes to mind pure chaos I truly thought it was going
to be heavy on the comedy but I think towards the end it it kind of the further we go it gets
darker it gets real and you learn more about these characters it's it's just it's a gift that keeps
on giving and I never feel bored uh I never feel like I knew where it was going it was always a
surprise every single Corner especially the way and sometimes I the the conversation on Netflix
the whole bingy mentality and how they frame their shows where they kind of each episode
ends on a cliffhanger so you can keep watching next episode versus if it was like week to week
maybe you wouldn't have that type of appeal where you have to like oh I got to see what's
happening next so I love the way that they shaped each episode because at the end of each episode
you're like well I gotta see what happens next because I need to know what's going on foreign
that was just really nice to see even if I didn't like
the characters or like it didn't end well yeah it was just oh man
yeah I just was not expecting uh I mean I'm not familiar with the writer's work so this
was just and then to see now what he's getting I'm like oh my God I'm so excited for those to
that point when you talked with friends so if you guys are any Marvel or movie fans pretty
much made the main the the writer and create of the show the director who directed like eight of
the ten episodes the seven and ten episodes and the star of this one of the Stars TV and they
all been recruited by Marvel so they will be a part of the Thunderbolts with uh Lee is going
to be writing it Jay Jake's gonna be directing it and see me in right now everyone's thinking he's
going to play the villain of the film but we'll see who comes up but uh Marvel they have a good
team on their hands they they must Kevin flag you must have saw the pre-screeners were like can we
get them on the phone let's get all of them can we get maybe Ali Wong's gonna be in the next Avengers
I'm here for it I'm here for it so I guess final thoughts before we get into the real
uh the meat of this show um any favorite characters or episodes and I guess without
spoiling thing was there anything about the show that maybe didn't entirely work for you
I think because I was not uh I really was not expecting that certain outcome to be so bloody
because I just did not expect to see something like that in this show and I I mean I chuckled
I was just like oh what I was like I I okay that that works I'm I'm happy but it was like it was
very jarring just I was I didn't expect to see that yeah was there a do you have a favorite
character of the show I I liked both the leads but I think uh Amy because it it touches on
something that I mean both the characters but hers specifically in terms of you know in the
Asian culture it is very much mental health isn't discussed or it is about suppressing your emotions
and that is what she did for so much of this and when she did let it out it would be just this this
rage and I really just I was like that it was just so perfectly played and I thought well written
that yeah I really enjoyed her character the most yeah even though I think she was also the worst
yeah and we'll get diving so that was definitely a question I want to post who was between the
2K they were both pretty pretty easy to relate to you rooted for them both but they were both
terrible people but I think to your point I think Amy definitely kind of took it another notch with
some things that she does a little bit later in the series but uh to answer my own question
I don't really have a favorite episode but I do I think for me the first half was just a little bit
more uh engaging and exciting and nothing that the second half wasn't but it's just I felt like that
first four or five episodes were just excellent just built to just so much greatness if I had a
favorite character I'll just I guess I'll just be opposite I'll say Steven Yin uh because they
are him and Amy aren't very similar but what I can relate to more with with his character is
just this idea of just trying to appease people him trying to appease his parents and you know
trying to be his big brother and show that he's just you know living his life that he and he has
so much bottled in and he's always trying to do so much and it just comes out in this this volcano of
aggression and um and then I would pick him also too because he's not as Amy did some wild things
man we'll talk about her gun access gun Obsession her sexual uh Kinks that she has it's like Amy you
got a lot of drama a lot of trauma and drama going on so I'll go with uh Danny just for the fact that
he didn't have as much stuff as Amy did but if I were to have any criticisms we talked about it off
camera the end of the show episode nine was great and I think they should have ended at episode nine
episode 10 has some great self-reflection moments that we'll talk about in the spoiler portion uh
very trippy uh conversation being had there's some crows that reappear that we'll definitely
talk about but okay maybe that part dude that was yeah so the thing only didn't entirely sit
The Landing uh if I were to say anything with the criticisms then some of the secondary characters
I wish they would explore just a little bit further they introduced some things with
supporting characters like I think of Naomi and her kind of obsession and want to be accepted and
her kind of Kink that she has and fumi's backstory so some of the secondary kid I wish we would have
expanded on a little bit more but that's just more of a nitpick more than anything but the Indian is
probably the thing that I dislike the most uh so hey that is our spoiler-free portion of beef uh
so like I said up top if you guys were either on the fence first time hearing about it that's our
initial thoughts I think we can collectively say utaka people should watch this show
yeah I I would have to agree that right now so far I mean we're only in April yeah so early this is
I I didn't expect this to be so high yeah like I wanted to see it but after seeing it I'm like
I'm blown away yeah just I didn't expect that especially from um Ali Wong too who's typically
a stand-up comedian yeah it's like that's a great Point man I've always said the comedians
can always get to those dark spots like I think of Jim Carrey how he's able to get dark Steve Corral
Jordan pill I mean they always make you laugh but they have some of the darkest stories so I totally
agree with you on that point definitely I see TV let's see I agree I agree guys so hey that's
a spoiler-free portion for those uh that have seen the series and want to talk more spoilers
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