A drawn-out love triangle is eclipsed by a simmering revenge plot, as an ex-con restaurateur vows to destroy the food-service mogul who ruined his life. That same day, I asked a Korean American novelist friend, “Have you seen Crash Landing on You? (We all just finished.)”Īfter “Crash Landing,” we-my wife and two sons, then nine and twelve, and I-plunged directly into another hexadecalogue: “Itaewon Class,” set in the cutthroat gastropub biz. I synopsized it again for a friend in Rhode Island. “The corniness is undercut by one of the North Korean soldiers who is secretly a fan of South Korean soaps: whenever there’s a tight situation, he imagines what would happen in a soap (and then that thing either does or doesn’t happen).” Two days later, I e-mailed a friend in Arkansas about this “goofy” but “irresistible” show, pitching it more succinctly.
A North Korean soldier takes her in.” I noted that most of the K-drama’s “16 very long episodes” take place in the D.P.R.K., and called the show “really good, kind of demented.” I tried to sell him on its self-awareness. A tornado (à la Wizard of Oz) transports her up over the border and into the Demilitarized Zone. “The setup: a high-powered female business owner, next in line to take over her father’s conglomerate (over her two older brothers), is testing one of her company’s products-a paraglider.
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I told him about “Crash Landing on You,” a Korean drama series on Netflix. In the first March of the pandemic, a friend in Pennsylvania e-mailed me about the slim pickings on TV.
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