Yet despite Netflix’s apparent tendency to mess up the pacing of their second seasons, once Seong Gi-hun bears the deadly 456 number on a familiar green uniform, we are reintroduced to the brilliance of this show.
One of my most anticipated of the festival did not disappoint - a thoroughly satisfying, moving exploration of how hidden joy can be as corrosive as hidden pain.
Perhaps my biggest concern with sci-fi as a genre is the accidental tendency to focus so much on a concept that the characters’ personality gets lost in the process... However, the entire cast – including major and minor characters – shine brightly.
A lot of people are citing the return to recession pop as the scary factor, but I say, dear reader, that the return to slightly off-key synths and cassette sounds should be far scarier.
This is an opinion piece, I promise.
So, I slept through the Oscars last night. This was mostly apathy, and the fact that I didn’t want to witness an Emilia Pérez sweep live and in glorious technicolor. The universe seems to have taken mercy on me and given it
Yet despite Netflix’s apparent tendency to mess up the pacing of their second seasons, once Seong Gi-hun bears the deadly 456 number on a familiar green uniform, we are reintroduced to the brilliance of this show.