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Well, it's not even "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," it's "we must repay them a hundredfold," like they said in the cars in episode 10.

Well, I am not an author of the original commentary, so I didn't write "many," just gave the first example I remembered. Someone would add Kim Soo-hyun. But I just don't know, if he is a rapist, and I don't want to label anyone without solid proofs.

That happens all over the world, sure. Look at Hollywood and Epstein files, for example. I'm not Korean and I don't think South Korea is worse than an average country in that way. Actually, in my opinion, it's quite the opposite. I think maybe Koreans should be more moderate about celebrities: less obsessed and worshipping, but more tolerant and forgiving as a society. Especially if a person had already been punished for their actions, or if nothing has been proven yet (like it happened to Lee Sun-kyun),

I don't like Choi Gyeong Gu and Park Jin Eon are reduced to a pair of dumb clowns in this season. They are aerospace engineers and inventors and used to be arguably the most intelligent members of the team. They also had their own motives and agenda in Rainbow Taxi. But in this season they exist to ask dumb and/or obvious questions for Kim Do Gi to say plot points for the audience and be laughed at in questionable situations. They have never saved the day actually, and Kim Do Gi could easily work without them. Pyo Ye Jin and Kim Eui Sung have become glorified extras. They also don't have a lot of to do with the plots. I love Lee Je Hoon, but the team spirit is gone in season 3, it's basically a one-man show. I blame writers of the show. Maybe it's really for the best to end it now. Or at least something has to be done to the main cast dynamic (for me chemistry is still there), we need more real team work.

Lee Kyung Young and the statutory rape of a minor, for example.

I see why the network has been sitting on the show for three years after it was shot. It's uneven, the storyline is disjointed, characters are a bit cliched. Yoo Ji Tae still has his charisma, and it's probably the best part of the show. Episodes are short, the first episode is 44 minutes with the intro and credits, the second one is even shorter, about 35 minutes. It's very weird for K-dramas.

I am not sure I am going to finish the show. I'll give it another chance next week.

Not so much about Netflix. They definitely prioritize quantity over quality and also deliberately make their content dumber (for "second-screen watchers"). Kingdom was great, but the quality of storytelling has been decreasing since, and I think it's intentional. But they do have a lot of money, so they can allow great actors whose performances elevate the dramas and movies. Disney+ is very uneven, it's hit-or-miss.

Those films aren't superhits, because they are about politics. But they may or may not be reasonably popular, which is true for aformentioned movies. I don't remember exactly, but either Inside Men made me watch Stranger (which was my first K-drama) in late 2010s, or it was the opposite. Anyway that movie was one of the first pieces of K-content I saw and I was led to K-content by it to some degree. I liked The Man Standing Next very much, it shows universal mechanics of coups d'etat (and 12.12: The Day from another director completed it perfectly).

I am reserved about the screenwriter though. A Normal Family was a fine movie elevated by the great cast, but Silent Sea was pretty dumb for sci-fi, I dropped it at the beginning. However promos for Made in Korea look promising.

Click "Episode Guide" on the top of this page, you will see the schedule.

Week 1: Episodes 1 and 2.
Week 2: Episodes 3 and 4.
Week 3: Episode 5.
Week 4 (January 14): Episode 6.

The last trailer of Made in Korea has 1.2 million views on Disney+ Korea YouTube channel. The previous one has 1.1 million. The first teaser (shorter than 1 minute) has about 973 thousand views. It's huge and on the same level of The Manipulated : 1.1M, 2.2M, 500+K for three trailers there, despite being more "boring" for a common viewer (politics instead of an action-filled revenge drama). The Manipulated was more anticipated among the international audience, but I am pretty sure it is going to get strong ratings at home.

I may or may not be disappointed, but the show has become the most anticipated K-drama of the year for me. There have been some mediocre to good to great dramas this year (often elevated by the cast and performances), but Made in Korea might become the best one, For me personally, of course, everything is subjective. I have huge hopes for this.

I beg to differ. The Netflix way is bad for many viewers AND for shows, especially for high-profile productions with huge budgets. Weekly release allows shows to stay in public discussion much longer. If all episodes are released at once the show is usually forgotten two weeks later. There are no discussions, no thoughts, people just eat some chunk of slop... sorry, of "content" and move to another chunk of slop. It's may be okay for mid-TV, but auteurs trying to say something and deliver some message, some ideas, some information it's a failure.

Made in Korea probably doesn't belong to that genre, but it's an absolute crime against mystery box shows, including detective shows, whodunit shows with viewers guessing, making up theories and discussing them as a half of fun.

And finally everyone has a different pace of watching because their personal and work lives are different. You just can't enter Internet and avoid spoliers in case of the popular show released at once. But you also can't discuss it properly, because everybody is on different stage at the moment. Majority of viewers catch up in a week or two, but the show isn't really relevant anymore, because the next chunk of slop has just been released. One, maybe two episodes set comfortable pace for most of viewers.

6-episode seasons with 1 episode per week is a British way of TV. It's a standard approach in the UK. Disney+ will release Made in Korea even quicker.

I also don't think it will be proper season 1 and season 2. Like I wrote here it's just they decided to split one story into two parts for various reasons from long production (for a high budget period drama it's understandable) to keeping subscribers. Disney+ did it in 2022 and 2023 with Shadow Detective. The show didn't have two different seasons, it was two halves of the same storyline. In total Made in Korea will have 12 episodes, and it's an almost standard length of K-dramas.

Boom!

I can see this ending like Military Prosecutor Doberman did. There was strong chemistry and questionable situations between the FL and the ML (titular Doberman), but nothing certain. In the final scene something happened. https://youtu.be/OLSR-5uMLa8?t=215 (spoiler in video).

There is no answers, because this specific ark hasn't been finished yet. They occasionally spend two weeks (four episodes) for certain villains.

People talk how ridiculous the motive for the main murder was, and they would be right in general. But the wife was just a narcissistic sociopath. Not a psychopath, a sociopath. It's common to have an inflated sense of self-importance, very reverent attitude to themselves, sensitivity to criticism, poor impulse control and reactive aggression because of some percieved threat. The husband was similar, his self-control just was a bit better. It happens occasionally.

One of the show's messages is trying to be polite. Etiquette isn't just showing off, it's a set of safety measures the humanity has been making up for centuries. It's written by blood, like safety measures for industrial workers, car drivers or people (e. g. soldiers) working with explosives. Because the world is dangerous, you can't predict who you meet -- it may be a sociopath. Let be nicer to each other.

Well, Baek Don Hun was basically a young pre-teen boy who hits a girl he likes. He likes to show off, is a bit narcissistic (hence he can't admit he was wrong). You can interpret sociopaths or narcissistic people as people who haven't become functional adults. They just don't have the whole psychological instruments set a normal person has to process emotions, to react in various situations. They are eternal teenagers or even kids. But there is sensuality toward An Yun Su inside him, let's remember the scene in the gallery with the prosecutor looking at the picture of half-naked Yun Su.

I am upset by Ryu Seung Beom leaving. Bae Doo Na is the star here, no doubt of that, but RSB was a heart and an emotional center of the show.

I see it adapts some manga, but the show does remind me Danish-Swedish co-production Bron/Broen and its plot.

Also when Mo Eun entered the camera, the girl danced and sang in front of the cameramates. They told Mo Eun she was for an "underage gambling operation" and praised how smart she was despite her age.