The highly-anticipated Apple TV Plus series 'Pachinko' debuts on the service in two weeks, with the first three episodes available March 25.
right off the bat. The story’s title is a metaphor, referring to both the game of Pachinko and to how much of an uncertain gamble life is.
Particularly for the story’s heroine Sunja, who grew up in Japanese-controlled Korea and then spends her retirement years in Japan reflecting on her life. “Why did her family think pachinko was so terrible?” Lee writes at one point in the novel. “Her father, a traveling salesman, had sold expensive life insurance policies to isolated housewives who couldn’t afford them, and Mozasu created spaces where grown men and women could play pinball for money.
The story continues: “Both men had made money from chance and fear and loneliness. Every morning, Mozasu and his men tinkered with the machines to fix the outcomes — there could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones.
The “and more” includes some at-times rough stuff, at least in the book. Like an intense session of torture that takes place at one point, during a prison stint.That said, “epic” is a word that gets mentioned a lot in talking about this series, which has a languid pace to the storytelling. Such that you get quickly immersed and invested in a multigenerational story. And the result is, at times, breathtaking.
There is pleasure and an immense depth of feeling to be found in the storytelling herein. Helped along by the sumptuous visuals and atmospheric accompanying score. The verdant greenery of Sunja’s younger years unfolds in a kind of pastoral dreamscape. Replaced, eventually, by the uglier and more industrialized modern present.bestselling acclaimed novel by author Min Jin Lee, chronicles the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family,” Apple summarizes.
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