Netflix’s next K-offering
after their giant squid
strikes me as a fairly routine Nikita-er, which they manage to put out deftly enough every few years, I remember enjoying The Villainess (even sat through the anticlimactic Dark Hole just for 김옥빈), and 소녀K before that. So I switched gears with something completely different, a 5-episode morning series about a recovering hikikomori which almost exploitatively uses the plight of middle-schoolers to complete his transformation (including, bizarrely, contravening the short-lived shutdown order at the beginning of the pandemic), but at least it didn’t star fucking 阿部 寛. Still, it’s an important issue that affects how many millions of people, like the debt-ridden in a ruthless capitalist society or unlike the number of beautiful young women who become professional killers. And besides, haven’t we all been there?
after their giant squid strikes me as a fairly routine Nikita-er, which they manage to put out deftly enough every few years, I remember enjoying The Villainess (even sat through the anticlimactic Dark Hole just for 김옥빈), and 소녀K before that. So I switched gears with something completely different, a 5-episode morning series about a recovering hikikomori which almost exploitatively uses the plight of middle-schoolers to complete his transformation (including, bizarrely, contravening the short-lived shutdown order at the beginning of the pandemic), but at least it didn’t star fucking 阿部 寛. Still, it’s an important issue that affects how many millions of people, like the debt-ridden in a ruthless capitalist society or unlike the number of beautiful young women who become professional killers. And besides, haven’t we all been there?
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