Netflix Hosted “Release Your Rage” Retreats for The New Series ‘Beef’
On Wednesday, April 5, Netflix hosted "Release Your Rage" Retreats in Los Angeles and New York for the upcoming dark comedy series BEEF, with special guest Law Roach in LA and ALOK in NY.
The Los Angeles event featured a conversation between image architect Law Roach and Anthony Allen Ramos, VP of Communication at GLAAD where they discussed several clips from the series that touched on rage, suffering through success, and trying to fit in to be successful.
Law mentioned, "What's important about that decision is that the rage I had was with myself. I think that I've given so much of myself to my clients, to my career, and to my success that I don't really know when was the last time that I was a priority for me." Ramos also shared his thoughts, stating "this show is so much more than just being about rage, there are so many themes, and so many important conversations. I know how much I got out of it and how much you'll get out of it."
In New York, the conversation between ALOK and The Hollywood Reporter's News Editor Abbey White included topics like how rage can get easily ignited in every day unplanned interactions with strangers, whether or not anger is justified, and how mindfulness practices like keeping a rage journal and deeply examining those thoughts as an indication of it pain to find beauty behind it and translating it from "vitriol to vivacity".
ALOK said, "To be in New York is to constantly experience other people's displacement Violence and rage says more about the person than the recipient and signals that a person is going through a pain that is too difficult to access. Rage is a bodyguard for a deeper truth, which is pain and woundedness and sorrow, which our culture doesn't hold space for... Rage is beautiful when it's not weaponized against other bystanders. Rage is beautiful when it's actually directed at the people who are oppressing us."
Guests in each city also experienced mindfulness activities that mirrored the emotional journey of the series leads. Guests participated in a "BEEF confessional booth" to reveal the most intimate extreme thing they have done out of rage, created by SharingBox, followed by a series of activities taught by wellness experts.
BEEF premieres April 6, only on Netflix.