Right now Kim Go Eun is being in Yumi's Cells Season 3, and she is literally 10 years older than Kim Jae Won playing her love interest. But their age gap is treated as a cute and funny plot device, a gimmick, and it's not in the tag list of the show. Is an age gap bad, if it's an older man and a younger woman? And it's totally fine, if an older woman chooses a younger man, it's a-okay. isn't it? Isn't it some hypocrisy? Double standards?
Personally I just don't care. Adult able-bodied people can have mutual relationships with any other competent adult people who are able to make their own decisions. If people choose somene, they usually have their reasons. Can admins stop pearl-clutching and relationships-policing?
I think it's more probable it's going to be airing at the end of the year rather than this summer
I thought so before today. Isn't it a bit early to show first look pictures?
Disney+ divided Shadow Detective into two parts too and released "season 2" 8 months later (November 2022 and July 2023). But both "seasons" had 8 episodes instead of 6, like Made in Korea. I can see Disney releasing part 2 of Made in Korea in 6 or 7 months after season 1 finale (January and July-August). I mean they had already filmed a huge chunk of season 2 last year and finished filming this March.
Presumably they do it because they think it gets them more subscribers, which is all they care about. Even Netflix…
TV shows also stay more inside fucus of public attention and keep their cultural relevance wth weekly release. You drop the entire show, everybody talk about them for several days, then poof... it's gone and forgotten in a week, two weeks at best. Even Netflix actors say it in interview: Netflix releases your show, everyone looks at you, everyone recognizes you, greets you, talks about your show, and it's literally gone next week, you are forgotten and nobody again, everybody binged it and moved to the next piece of slop with another group of actors.
But if you release your show weekly, it gets momentum, people discuss good shows, everyone is at the same place, everyone knows the same part of the story, you can talk about it without spoilering anything, make up theories and so on. Yes, people move on eventually as well, but it happens in several months after premiere. And that is how it worked for decades, since 1950s.
In my opinion, The Spy Gone North is the best K-movie ever made and one of my favourite movies of all time (I'm not Korean). So the directior is great, an the cast has some very strong names too, it may be a brilliant movie, I hope for it.
Casting depends on the age of twin brothers. How old are they? Playing two different characters, or even three or four ones is a complicated task. And here the actor will have to play at least I Su. Do Gyeong and I Su pretending to be Do Gyeong, all three roles are very different. Maybe eventually there will be Do Gyeong pretending to be I Su. It should be a very versatile actor, not you average handsome oppa.
If it's someone older, Lee Byung Hung or Shin Ha Kyun would do, maybe Cho Seung Woo and a few other examples. If it's someone younger, I would prefer Kang Ha Neul after Insider and Yadang: The Snitch, he would definitely manage.
It's on Disney+. Maybe it's just part 1, and there will be part 2 having 8 episodes too. For example, Disney+ did it with Shadow Detective, they divided 16 episodes into 2 parts and showed them as "season 1" and "season 2." Kinda another example is Made in Korea, but it's 12 episodes divided into 2 parts. "Season 1" was released in December 2025 and January 2026, and "season 2" is set for the end of 2026.
From what I'm reading here it looks like a Korean version of season 1 and 3 of True Detective, a famous American show. Two law enforcement officers, serial violent crimes, a bit of coutryside, systemic failure of law enforcement, maybe some corruption, some miscarriage of justice with an innocent people being blamed/convicted for the crime(s) they didn't commit, two (or more) timelines in 1980/90s and in the current time or recent past (let's say from late 2010s to the present). I guess some occult/cultist/ritualistic undertones would finish the picture. Am I right?
This series tries to present itself as a thriller, but it lacks the fundamentals of the genre.There is no real…
I haven't watched the show yet for several reasons, but I am thinking about it. I did watch the K-movie inspired by the same case, Memories of Murder (2003) which is one of the favourite Quentin Tarantino's movies. It showed the same issues in the police work: careless treatment of evidence/crime scenes, incompetence, lack of the strategy, police brutaility and efforts to find any scapegoat, prejudice against certain "weird" people and so on. There were various reasons for it: from it happening in the countryside (and the most competent cops are in the capital, it's a huge issue in South Korea for all areas of life, Seoul just drains all life from the rest regions) to consequences of the military dictatorship with the law enforcement having a bit different goals than keeping citizens safe.
Dong Wook mentioned at his fan meeting here in Brazil that the series will be released in the Korean summer, which…
Is the Korean summer different from other countries' summer? Or did he mean the standard summer in the Northern hemisphere, i. e. June-August, because most of Brazil (about 93%) is in the Southern hemisphere, so their summer is December-February?
They are literally filming it. And they were planning to do it until late July. Then it will be the time for post-production. So, the answer is no and there won't be any updates for months.
she Walks on Thick Gold Bars instead of thin ice lol pun intended
There are dozens of movies and shows about civilians who happen to get some valuable mcguffin belonging to organized crime (money, gold, drugs and so on) in the world culture, from No Country for Old Men to season 1 of Fargo to Beasts Clawing at Straws to, yes, Walking on Thin Ice. It's not a new idea.
It's the execution of the idea that matters. Now do you make it? What angle do you want to take? What characters do fight for this mcguffin? What ideas or concepts do you want to explore? Is it an action piece? Is it a drama about social institutions (e. g. a family)? Is it psychological drama? Is it thriller? Is it a classic tragedy about characters' flaws leading them to their demise? Is it a melodrama to show their emotions in such extreme situations? Is it a fish-out-of-water situation turning into a hero's journey? And so on.
I see "Romance" among genres of the drama, but I do hope it's a proper crime drama/thriller instead of being a thinly-veiled romantic/family drama which happens quite a lot in K-drama world. At least the first teaser makes such an impression. I still hope it will be more in line with Beasts Clawing at Straws or Karma.
It's probably June. Netflix releases a K-drama every 3 weeks or so. Bloodhounds season 2, If Wishes Could Kill and The WONDERfools are set to be released on April 3rd, April 24th and May 15th respectively. So two 2nd quarter time slots left, both are in June: June 5th and June 26th. One of them is for Teach You a Lesson and another one for The Notes From the Last Row.
It's probably June. Netflix releases a K-drama every 3 weeks or so. Bloodhounds season 2, If Wishes Could Kill and The WONDERfools are set to be released on April 3rd, April 24th and May 15th respectively. So two 2nd quarter time slots left, both are in June: June 5th and June 26th. One of them is for Teach You a Lesson and another one for The Notes From the Last Row.
Bae Doo Na was a powerhouse, an unstoppable machine in season 1, she is a main star of the show, of course. But Ryu Seong Beom was a heart of the show, an emotional core of it. I am very worried how they are going to manage without him.
Personally I just don't care. Adult able-bodied people can have mutual relationships with any other competent adult people who are able to make their own decisions. If people choose somene, they usually have their reasons. Can admins stop pearl-clutching and relationships-policing?
Disney+ divided Shadow Detective into two parts too and released "season 2" 8 months later (November 2022 and July 2023). But both "seasons" had 8 episodes instead of 6, like Made in Korea. I can see Disney releasing part 2 of Made in Korea in 6 or 7 months after season 1 finale (January and July-August). I mean they had already filmed a huge chunk of season 2 last year and finished filming this March.
But if you release your show weekly, it gets momentum, people discuss good shows, everyone is at the same place, everyone knows the same part of the story, you can talk about it without spoilering anything, make up theories and so on. Yes, people move on eventually as well, but it happens in several months after premiere. And that is how it worked for decades, since 1950s.
If it's someone older, Lee Byung Hung or Shin Ha Kyun would do, maybe Cho Seung Woo and a few other examples. If it's someone younger, I would prefer Kang Ha Neul after Insider and Yadang: The Snitch, he would definitely manage.
It's the execution of the idea that matters. Now do you make it? What angle do you want to take? What characters do fight for this mcguffin? What ideas or concepts do you want to explore? Is it an action piece? Is it a drama about social institutions (e. g. a family)? Is it psychological drama? Is it thriller? Is it a classic tragedy about characters' flaws leading them to their demise? Is it a melodrama to show their emotions in such extreme situations? Is it a fish-out-of-water situation turning into a hero's journey? And so on.