South Korea

‘My Name’ tells a dark tale of revenge

After the viral success of the Korean thriller series “Squid Game,” Netflix dropped another show in the same genre on Oct. 15 called “My Name,” a dark and gritty revenge drama that strives to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. Riddled with suspense and packed with powerful performances, “My Name” has a compelling plot filled with enough carnage and secrets for thriller enthusiasts to walk away feeling satisfied.

The show follows Yoon Ji-Woo (Han So-Hee), a high school student who enlists South Korea’s top crime boss, Choi Mu-Jin (Park Hee-Soon), to help her unearth the truth about her father’s underworld connections and avenge his recent murder. The series then details Ji-Woo’s path to joining the police department’s narcotics division as a mole for Mu-Jin. As Ji-Woo enters into the police force and maintains connections with leading figures in the police agency, she also tries to hide her true identity from her work partner, detective Jeon Pil-Do (Ahn Bo-Hyun).

Children’s games become deadly in Netflix’s ‘Squid Games’

Children’s games become deadly in Netflix’s ‘Squid Games’

“Squid Game,” a South Korean horror Netflix Original series that dropped on Sept. 17, has quickly become the hottest television show streaming on the platform. It has a stellar 94 percent critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes, an 8.3/10 on IMDB and has taken the number one spot on Netflix in 90 countries. The show deserves the worldwide recognition and success it has received since its release. It possesses a suspenseful atmosphere, successfully drawing viewers in as the players navigate the games.

“Parasite” is a thrilling genre-melding social commentary

Every few years, a genre-bender comes along, breaking some of those conventions but maintaining the essential ethos of that genre. “Parasite,” Bong Joon-ho’s haunting depiction of class struggle in South Korea, doesn’t fit into either category — the film neither conforms to nor breaks free of genre convention. Instead, Joon-ho’s latest thriller is indubitably a masterful genre-melding exercise, gaining the audience’s trust and comfort only to shatter the carefully constructed world later on.

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