Apple is transferring ahead with a second season of its critically-acclaimed adaption of Min Jin Lee’s best-selling novel Pachinko. The firm introduced the renewal shortly earlier than the present’s season one finale premiered this previous Friday on Apple TV+.
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Published in 2017, Lee’s multi-generational story received accolades for its portrayal of a Korean household that immigrates to Japan earlier than the outbreak of the Second World War. What’s hanging about each the novel and Apple’s drama collection is how they effortlessly weave historical past and the deeply private tales of their characters collectively. From Japanese colonialism in Korea to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and later Japan’s financial growth within the Nineteen Eighties, historical past has a profound impact on Pachinko’s characters and but the story at all times feels intimate.
Friday’s season one finale pulled from a scene that happens a few third via Lee’s roughly 500-page novel, so there’s loads of story left for Apple’s TV+ collection to adapt. The firm didn’t say when season two will start filming or when it plans to stream the brand new episodes. All of that simply means you might have time to compensate for Pachinko should you’ve been sleeping on it.