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The ending of episode 1 is brilliant, it's both hilarious and moving. Choi Min Sik gives some great, Baeksang-level peformance. Of course, he is a very respected, award-winning actor, but he truly deserves to be a contender at least in this case. Here I wrote after the trailer it's his best role in years, and I can confirm my prediction now.

There are literally three MILFs in this drama: the younger ML's friend's mother, the older ML's wife and the wife of the older ML's frenemy.

Lee Hee Joon plays a prosecutor again. Well, cool, just don't let his character torture suspects.

As far as I understand from the drama's description and some footage Netflix released in winter, it would be the same story, but ptobably in two timelines, in 1960s and 1980s.

Well, kinda yes. although the release date hasn't been announced yet. July 22nd was in the captions to the teaser in official account of Disney+ Singapore in Instagram, but they edited it several days later.

I thought this guy would get more prolific career after The Glory and Exhuma. But, well, it's at least something.

> this short drama

It was just part 1 though. Part 2 was promoted among Disney+ releases of this summer, I guess it is set for August 19th or 26th (maybe, just maybe early September 2nd or 9th), after A Shop for Killers season 2 ends.

However I do agree about your general evaluation.

I expected to read some age gap police commentaries here, and I wasn't disappointed (in a bad way).

A teaser with English subs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWLOXW6odgk

There are no news specifically about this drama. But it's November or December.

A Shop for Killers season 2 is set for July, 22nd, it ends on August 12th. Made in Korea season 2 was in the trailer for summer releases too, so it's for August 19th or 26th, maybe, just maybe, early September, and it ends in September or early October. The actress who plays the FL of The Remarried Empress, Shin Min Ah. said her drama is going to be released in October, and it has 10 episodes.

So this leaves us only mid-to-late November or December for Portraits of Delusion.

It's Disney+, not Netflix, so they usually release two episodes every Wednesday.

I hate when media use cliche "timely" about some movie or show. But in this case I would say the word "timely" would be justified. With "AI" (look at the LLM boom) and invasion into human mind (the same thing about Elon Musk's Neuralink and so on) the drama's premise is a real potential threat for the next few decades, and we need at least comprehend what it means through the culture. I haven't seen anything really substantial in the first reaser yet, but I hope for a smart story. We need it now.

Description to the video says among other things.

"The handover for survival is over!
The countdown to the counterattack against Babylon begins ⏳"

So I guess we aren't going to see how Jin Man dealt with Bale during the events in the shop we saw in season 1, because he didn't. The uncle and the niece probably will do it as a couple in season 2. And it probably will be the mirroring/opposite situation to season 1: the shop crew storming Babylon.

Here is a new teaser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th-z5DyWdzE

With The East Palace receiving a July release date (July 17th) and The Scandal allegedly slated for September (September 18th), that leaves The Mousetrap with only an August slot left, whether it's August 7th or August 28th (and another August slot is reserved for Our Sticky Love).

I also want to note that Choi Min Sik's character is us, the viewers. It's the audience who say "it's always to be continued," "where is the new episode" and get emotional and sometimes voyeuristic about it. The drama has a bit of meta-humor about consumption of serials.

Well, it's a television adaptation of the Spanish play. We'll see how Korean and how universal it is. To be honest, I haven't seen any specifically Korean in the trailers. Maybe it's even for the better and helps to make the drama more popular among the global audience on Netflix.

I have watched the trailer, and I think this drama can become the best K-drama of the year. And it's definitely the best Choi Min Sik role in years, much better than Big Bet.

Or they can release it in several parts, like When Life Gives You Tangerines: 5-5-6-6 (or 6-6-5-5) episodes.

From my understanding it's an Americanism in Korean language. The word "tantara" itsef is onomatopoeic, i. e. it imitates some sound, in this case it's the actual sound of a brass instrument (often mimicking a repeating "ta-ta-ra" sequence). The word "fanfare" is close to it, In my language it would be "tram-param."

It could explain the appearance of the word in 1960s, after Korean war had ended and Westernization/Americanization had begun, and it started in show business too: Western-like pop music and cinema started to dominate. It could also explain condenscending attitude: people chose "foreign influence" instead of more traditional culture, they were "just parroting" Westerners. But there was some arrogant attitude about artists in general too, of course, one may remember the Paekchŏng caste of untouchables who consisted of performers.

Right now it's the opposite with K-pop and K-movie/K-drama cult, but also not really. We all see extreme intolerance toward some missteps of Korean artists.