Pachinko

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Season 1
  • Network: Apple TV+
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 25, 2022
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 71 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 71
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 71
  3. Negative: 9 out of 71
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  1. Orsetto
    Apr 2, 2022
    1
    It's a great 1987 Korean TV period melodrama.

    Oh, right. It's 2022, you say? And woke Western TV "critics" have discovered Korea does make TV, too? So let's just praise whatever potboiler exotica reinforces our elite "in the know" wokeness.

    Acting is basically vile except for a few veterans. Par for the course for Korean TV
  2. barillas
    Apr 9, 2022
    0
    Unworldly American critics are falling over themselves as everything Korean, however mediocre and petit bourgeois, is trendy. Liberals are ruining our culture, every piece of art needs to have a hidden political agenda somewhere
  3. OlivierPiel
    Mar 26, 2022
    1
    With that score one expected a Korean "de Buddenbrook".
    Far from it. It is just a bland, highly unrealistic, romanticized rags to riches family saga with stereotypical characters (the angelic doting father figure, the " cursed" mother, the gifted child on which family fortune relies....). As with the typical Korean shows, acting is atrociously cliched and lacking any form of nuances and    With that score one expected a Korean "de Buddenbrook".
    Far from it. It is just a bland, highly unrealistic, romanticized rags to riches family saga with stereotypical characters (the angelic doting father figure, the " cursed" mother, the gifted child on which family fortune relies....). As with the typical Korean shows, acting is atrociously cliched and lacking any form of nuances and serves the unsurprising wishy-washy moralistic tale of resilience and purpose that has been done hundred times before in vastly superior fashion.
    Unworldly American critics are falling over themselves as everything Korean, however mediocre and petit bourgeois, is trendy. This "tropist" trend is really "un-woke", isn't it?    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#21 Best TV Season of 2022
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#27 Most Discussed TV Season of 2022

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Metascore
87

Universal acclaim - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. Empire
    Reviewed by: Ian Freer
    Mar 28, 2022
    100
    Life’s rich pageant is present and correct in Pachinko and it’s magnificent. A strong shout for the most satisfying TV of the year so far.
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  2. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Mar 28, 2022
    90
    Pachinko is a sprawling, moving saga of parental sacrifice, feminine resilience and cultural identity threatened by an oppressive regime. It's also one of the few streaming series I wished was longer than eight episodes. [28 Mar - 10 Apr 2022, p.6]
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  3. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Mar 28, 2022
    100
    Eight episodes is not enough. Every rich moment satisfies, and each will make you ache for more. ... "Pachinko" is a pure and flawless beauty.
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