they don't like it. apple tv is not even officially streaming it in japan, which jpn netizens claim is in order…
Stop spreading BS, it is on apple tv Japan and many japanese are enjoying it you can read many positive reviews on their rating sites. Some of you people need to learn that japanese people are completely normal people, just like anyone else. Especially young japanese are more or less worshipping everything korean today. War creates bad men whether its Japan, Germany or the US. The bad men who did bad things are dead today.
Otherwise Pachinko is kind of missing the mark for me. Something feels off, it must be because its made by americans.
I agree that its way too dragged out. I am not even sure if these 16 hours would be interesting enough if they were cut into a standard lenght movie, lol. But the biggest problem I had was the main couple and their lack of chemistry and energy. More than lovers they felt like siblings. They even kind of actually look like they could be brother and sister IRL.
I think it was quite visible that Min Chae's dad is not Beak Yi jin, they showed it a lot of times in the show....…
I feel bad for Heedo's husband and their kid, Heedo is obsessed with Yi Jin. Drives a red car, names her place 2125 etc, she is stuck in the past of her first love. Even when she and her husband "made" their daughter, she was probably thinking and dreaming about Yi Jin...
This could be really good. Hope its not like a 100% budhist metaphor thing like Swaha that only koreans/asian people can relate to. They should put it on Netflix.
I rewatched the last episode to give it another chance, and the "realistic ending" is definitely not the problem after all. Its the way it was executed - it was just so poorly done, rushed and lackluster. Characters acting out of character, more or less zero closure for anyone, weird messages to the viewers like someone else mentioned (a woman who is married and has a kid with someone is living in the past of/is obsessed with the memories of her first love?). Realistic or not, it just came off as kind of weird to me...? Even things such as the actual editing/pacing of the last episode felt weird.
Slice of life needs its time to set up the characters, especially when its a long series like this one. I don't think this all star cast would have signed up for the drama after they read the script, if they thought it was shit. Just sit back and relax for now =)
Not really, its a vocal minority. The viewership ratings in SKorea for the first two eps are great, better than for example the opening eps of 25-21. This is gonna be a great heartwarming drama, like everyone else mentions the screenwriter is one of the best in the industry.
I also have no problems with bittersweet/realistic endings, but I feel they could have done it in a different and better way in this drama. It just felt lacking somehow, like it was missing some scenes for that satisfying closure. After it ended I became like "uhm... is that it...? Really?" Such a bummer.
How is it even possible to review without even half of the episodes out?
You would be surprised by how many weird people there are on this site, who make new accounts only to downvote dramas because they don't like someone in the cast. Pretty pathetic. Obviously the drama has just started and the screenwriter is one of the best in the industry.
Korean movies are not supposed to be this poorly written.
I would say that they rather went for a pretty safe plot. Still it did its job and was entertaining enough, at least its better written than your recent blockbuster action flick from hollywood.
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Otherwise Pachinko is kind of missing the mark for me. Something feels off, it must be because its made by americans.
I wonder what happened?
This is gonna be a great heartwarming drama, like everyone else mentions the screenwriter is one of the best in the industry.