“Pachinko,” Apple TV’s sprawling historical epic adapted from Min Jin Lee’s acclaimed novel, has just wrapped up its first eight-episode season.
An ambitious drama that spans four generations of a single family, the series examines the lives of the ethnic Koreans of Japan through the throes of heartache and perseverance.
Starting with the annexation and colonization of Korea by the Japanese empire in 1910, “Pachinko” paints a measured dichotomy between past and present by surrounding its narrative around one woman: Kim Sunja.
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