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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: The Real World Incident That Inspired Season 2 of Beef · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Netflix's hit dramedy Beef Back second season winning rave reviews.
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  Speaker 2: But even with all the success of season one, it
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  Speaker 2: was never a guarantee there would be more than just
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  Speaker 2: that first season.
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  Speaker 3: Right, not at all for starters.
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  Speaker 1: Creator Lee Sung Jin pitched the show as a limited series, and.
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  Speaker 4: He actually based the first season on a real experience
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  Speaker 4: that he had. It was inspired by road rage incident
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  Speaker 4: that he lived through.
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  Speaker 2: So when he tried to begin season two, he stalled,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with the creative stuff, because he didn't have
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  Speaker 2: that real world jumping off for him.
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  Speaker 3: Netflix rejected all of his ideas and even started to
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  Speaker 3: tell him, no worries, you can just develop something else.
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  Speaker 2: Instead, until real world drama found him. He tells Rolling Stone,
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  Speaker 2: a couple in his neighborhood got into a verbal argument,
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  Speaker 2: one with real volume.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and actually all the surrounding neighbors heard it, including Lee,
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  Speaker 4: and they gossiped, and he noticed that the younger couples
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  Speaker 4: reacted a lot differently than the older ones.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the younger ones were essentially more judgmental. We'd never
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  Speaker 2: argue like that, they said, And it planted a kernel
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  Speaker 2: of an idea in his head that became Beef season two.
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  Speaker 2: It's on Netflix now.
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  Speaker 4: That's direct from Hollywood.