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3 Body Problem (2024)
It's definitely a Netflix entertainment vehicle, but..
I was initially put off when I saw how much it deviated from the original storyline in the first few episodes. Was looking for Wang Miao (male lead character of book 1) and realised Auggie was meant to be him. Multiple plotlines were over-generalised and characters condensed to fit into the Netflix 8-episode format. However, there were some entertaining merits to the way the story was tweaked, which comes across as an attempt to make it more bite-sized (or dumbed-down) for audiences that have not read the books. Several of the key plots in the second and third books (which were meant to happen in different time periods) were mashed into this first season, which does not do the full story justice, since it is meant to span centuries.
Ultimately I do feel entertained though, as this series took out some dramatic parts of the books to play out using the Hollywood machinery, with the downside of ignoring several other character plots that were essential the whole plot. The character of Luo Ji for example, was only revealed to be congruent to Saul in the last episode, and the whole transition felt like a desperate attempt to mish mash every actor's importance to draw relevance to the trilogy's readerbase.
I hope season 2 onwards can start to veer back more to the original storyline.
Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area (2022)
This show is probably not for the Americans so they can st*u
A great twist on the original with a conceptualized new reality in Korea. I'm not from Korea but I totally enjoy the new storyline, with better backstories and acting.
Ojing-eo geim (2021)
Parasite + Alice in Borderland
One of the best K Netflix series I've seen in recent years. The plot, cinematography, and acting (with the exception of some masked caucasians in the end) was superb. Several A-list actors were in this show and the cameos by them were very well woven into the story. Looking forward to a season 2.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Why
What did Josh Whedon do? This could have launched the careers of so many individuals, but....
Sigeuneol (2016)
Before Tenet, there was this gem from South Korea.
This show was in my Netflix to-watch list for the longest time, and I finally got to watch it in recent months during the year-end holidays in 2020. I am impressed with it despite seeing a time-warp / time-travel show more than half a decade of its release.
Once I got past the first episode, I was hooked and intrigued, as it veers off into a crime mystery series, with each few episodes tackling a different cold case, and each of them were brilliantly crafted and acted by the cast. Some of these cases may have minor plot holes but they are never as jarring as the ones you see in Hollywood - in fact, they are all believable and keeps you excited as the team links different ideas, memories, and evidences to solve cases which were previously deemed unsolved by the police force or solved - which the team would always go on to discover to be wrongly closed after peeling the layers. These cases are all linked to one another, and also the back stories of the main characters, and explain how they all managed to get together despite differences in their backgrounds and timezones.
Weave all these together with a time warp scenario comprised of police officers in the present day of 2015 and twenty years back. These might not make huge temporal sense in the time-travel genre, but plotwise, it does engage you from the time-warp fantasy genre.
The pace of the story is very fast, laid with the occasional flashbacks which sometimes do get abit excessive - good thing about watching this on Netflix is you can skip through them. However, do not confuse the flashbacks with reenactments of previously-seen scenes, as the reenactments often contain important information that would have a cause on the effects of the downstream plot twists.
I would highly recommend this show to anyone who has time on their holidays to binge-watch some quality shows. These are the types of drama series that make Hollywood tv shows look like a waste of time.
Seutateueob (2020)
On point for most of the start-up landscape and..
This show is way better than watching Shark Tank. It's k-drama entertainment plus up-to-date innovation start-up ideas and the intricacies of starting up a business with co-founders in this era.
The Irishman (2019)
Feels like The Godfather IV
A tribute to Francis Ford Coppola?
This film has Goodfellas and the Godfather flavors written all over it. Its superb because all the best actors (from Hollywood) that you can think of are in it.
A real treat.
SKY Castle (2018)
The only Korean drama to watch in 2018/2019
Trust the Koreans to take a mild topic of children's education and expand it to a level that most parents can identify with. Elitism, capitalism and social inequality culminating eventually as illusional obsession with grades that their next generation could achieve, this vehicle delivers so much drama and soul reflections for elitist parents of our era that makes it so entertaining, yet believable at times. This show is the better, sophisticated version of Crazy Rich Asians.
Skyscraper (2018)
It's time for a Die Hard reboot
This is what Die Hard sequels look like, in 2018. The Rock can do anything...
The Accountant (2016)
Wtf Punisher!
If my boys ever become like them, I'd have deleted all their Roblox accounts and bought myself a yacht.