Apple is moving on with the second season of its critically acclaimed film adaptation of best selling novel . The company the extension just before the show’s season one finale premiered last Friday on Apple TV+.
Published in 2017, Lee’s multi-generational tale has won critical acclaim for its depiction of a Korean family who immigrate to Japan before the outbreak of World War II. What stands out about both the novels and the Apple TV series is how easily they bring together the history and deeply personal stories of their characters. From Japanese colonialism in Korea to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and then Japan’s economic boom in the 1980s, history has profoundly influenced Japan’s history. Pachinko’s Characters and stories always feel intimate.
The final season of Friday was pulled from a scene that happened about a third of the way through Lee’s roughly 500-page novel, so there’s still plenty of story left for Apple’s TV+ series to adapt. The company did not say when season two will begin filming or when it plans to stream new episodes. All of that just means you have time to catch up Pachinko if you slept on it.
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