Gia (Jia) Tolentino

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

Friends his own age had almost the opposite reaction.

They shrugged.

Lee couldn't stop thinking about that split.

What it revealed about what different generations expect from relationships.

And what happens when the private lives of one generation collide with the values of another?

That became the new season of Beef.

Oscar Isaac and Carrie Mulligan play a married couple, whose ugliest private fight is secretly recorded by two young employees, Ashley and Austin, played by Kaylee Spaney and Charles Melton.

The next morning, Austin comes over and offers Mulligan's character a safe place if she needs it, and she tells him that he's misunderstood the situation.

Ashley.

The first season of Beef, starring Allie Wong and Stephen Yun, also grew out of a moment Lee couldn't let go of, a road rage encounter that ended with him following another driver for nearly half an hour.

That's season one eight Emmys, including Outstanding Limited Series.

Before creating Beef, Lee spent years writing for comedies, including It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Silicon Valley.

Lee Sung Jin, welcome to Fresh Air and congratulations.

Thank you so much.

Thanks for having me.

And I'm just so curious, what was it about your friend's reaction to those people fighting in your neighborhood that really sparked this for you?

Well, you know, to be honest, the the the actual neighbors are older.

They're in they're probably boomers, I think.

I don't know their exact age, but uh

when I was talking to friends and and and writers, it was interesting that

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