| HULU | Season Premiere Date: September 10, 2025 |
Summary:
Ex-diplomat Seo Mun-ju (Gianna Jun) becomes a target and mercenary Paik San-ho (Gang Dong-won) is assigned to protect her after the attempted assassination of the South Korean President in the Korean political thriller series.
[Premiered on Hulu in the US and on Disney+ in other territories]
[Premiered on Hulu in the US and on Disney+ in other territories]
Genre(s):
Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense
Season 1 Episodes
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Sep 10, 2025
It's urgent escapism, and the first three episodes suggest the series will become more psychologically and narratively complex as it goes along. If you've never watched a K-drama and are curious to dip a toe into the genre, it's hard to imagine a more perfect place to start than this.
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RogerEbert.com
Sep 10, 2025
Overall, the characters are faceted, and the series is layered. Blink and you might miss a clue, an inciting incident, or an insight into how and why things began to unravel. Combine that with the friction and realistically orchestrated action, and “Tempest” enticingly plays out like a blockbuster spy thriller with a slightly slower pace than on film.
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Sep 10, 2025
Based on three of the nine episodes, though, the money spent leasing midlevel Hollywood talent might have been better spent on the screenplay. .... But the stars are attractive (the iconic actress Lee Mi-sook lends weight as a scheming mother-in-law), the hand-to-hand combat is well choreographed and by the third episode the story starts to gain some of the juice and propulsion that we come to South Korean thrillers for.
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Air Date: September 10, 2025
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Season 1 Overview