Every week it's the same story in a different location.
I've been watching Typhoon Family on Netflix for 6 weeks now. It has high ratings but it's boring. Every week it's the same story in a different location. Tae Poong and his squad overcoming the bullying of the Pyo's. Every. Single. Week. Toss in developing relationships, poverty, wealth and class disparity, it's boring.
They get stuck in a narrative rinse-and-repeat cycle. And Typhoon Family is absolutely one of those shows where:
• the “Pyo family = cartoon bullies”
• the “Tae Poong squad = eternally righteous underdogs”
• the “rich vs poor morality play”
• plus a sprinkle of romance arcs
…all just keep looping without actual forward motion.
It’s like they wrote 16 episodes of plot and then stretched it across a much longer runtime to fit the daily drama format. You can practically predict each beat:
1. Pyo family postures.
2. Tae Poong’s crew suffers.
3. Tae Poong rallies.
4. Minor victory.
5. Reset.
6. New location, same template.
It’s not that those themes are inherently bad — bullying, class tension, and slow-burn relationships can be great — but the show doesn’t develop them. It just recycles them.
You’re supposed to care more as the story goes on, but it actually flattens because nothing escalates meaningfully. No stakes evolve, no characters change, the villains don’t deepen, and the emotional notes stay exactly the same. The end is predictable. The Pyo's will fall and received their just rewards, Tae Poong and his people will survive, if not rise. Nothing new. Same old recycled tropes.
You can't fault the cast. They're all seasoned and proven veterans. The soundtrack is respectable and the historical facts of the era, architecture and fashion are spot on. But the doesn't change the fact that the entire series could have played out in 8 episodes or less.
They get stuck in a narrative rinse-and-repeat cycle. And Typhoon Family is absolutely one of those shows where:
• the “Pyo family = cartoon bullies”
• the “Tae Poong squad = eternally righteous underdogs”
• the “rich vs poor morality play”
• plus a sprinkle of romance arcs
…all just keep looping without actual forward motion.
It’s like they wrote 16 episodes of plot and then stretched it across a much longer runtime to fit the daily drama format. You can practically predict each beat:
1. Pyo family postures.
2. Tae Poong’s crew suffers.
3. Tae Poong rallies.
4. Minor victory.
5. Reset.
6. New location, same template.
It’s not that those themes are inherently bad — bullying, class tension, and slow-burn relationships can be great — but the show doesn’t develop them. It just recycles them.
You’re supposed to care more as the story goes on, but it actually flattens because nothing escalates meaningfully. No stakes evolve, no characters change, the villains don’t deepen, and the emotional notes stay exactly the same. The end is predictable. The Pyo's will fall and received their just rewards, Tae Poong and his people will survive, if not rise. Nothing new. Same old recycled tropes.
You can't fault the cast. They're all seasoned and proven veterans. The soundtrack is respectable and the historical facts of the era, architecture and fashion are spot on. But the doesn't change the fact that the entire series could have played out in 8 episodes or less.
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