Beef (Netflix) TV Show • Page 4

Discussion in 'Entertainment Forum' started by iCarly Rae Jepsen, Mar 15, 2023.

  1. Freud

    Immortals with no morals, and no hang ups Prestigious

    Wouldn't whitewashing be if they were remaking S1 scene for scene, word for word, and replacing the entire Asian cast with white people? This is a brand new season with different characters in a different storyline. Also Oscar Isaac is Guatemalan.
     
  2. mattav152

    Release My Mind, My Garden Grows

    theres like 3 white people in the cast on wikipedia, I dont get it.
     
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  3. Zilla

    Prestigious Supporter

    Also, Charles Melton is Korean.
     
  4. Mike

    RIP Flora Ethel Vassallo-MacNeil Supporter

    I hope this new season is good because the first season was really good. I will be watching, regardless of what colour the actors are!
     
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  5. irthesteve

    formerly irthesteve Supporter

    Not to mention the creator and show runner.... But I guess creatives don't count :eyebrow:
     
  6. OotyPa

    fall away Supporter

    LOL what is with yall... take off the boxing gloves. just expressing some minor disappointment that the show is changing directions. s1 was ENTIRELY about the Asian immigrant experience, Asian-American generational trauma, and ALL the leads were Asian--now there's only Charles as a lead. I have faith that s2 could be good--maybe even great--but it's a bummer to see something that started with a strong ethnic identity begin to pander as soon as it gets popular. but again, we'll see how it plays out.
     
  7. okay but you didn't say the show was moving away from an asian cast, you said it was whitewashing the cast. feels extremely weird to say "there's only charles as the lead" if your argument is whitewashing with oscar isaac right there too. makes no sense, man.
     
  8. OotyPa

    fall away Supporter

    there's no "argument" as I'm not "arguing" anything.

    both Oscar and Charles are white-passing and that's not a preposterous thing to suggest. I just realized ten min ago they weren't white
     
  9. pretty weird!
     
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  10. irthesteve

    formerly irthesteve Supporter

    You posted four words, and they were

    "bummer they're whitewashing this"

    And then later posted about 100 words, confused why none of us interpreted your four words with that much depth and complexity
     
  11. and then doubled down by implying that charles isn't asian enough and oscar isn't latino enough
     
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  12. Sean Murphy

    merry crisis Platinum

    yeah like, there is obviously conversation that can be had about casting choices but you approached it entirely in bad faith lol

    just own it and move on
     
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  13. OotyPa

    fall away Supporter

    Bad faith or not, all I was trying to say was that I was hoping for more Asian representation. That's what I appreciated from the first season. I guess I shouldn't have used the word "whitewashing" so I apologize for that.