Pachinko
Sunja's family across four generations and three countries
Pachinko S1E1 Review: A girl is born under occupation, a grandson tries to outrun it
Kogonada's premiere braids 1910s Busan and 1989 Tokyo into one inheritance, watching a family choose survival as a daily, deliberate act.
Pachinko S1E2 Review: A shirt worn once, a name worth one billion yen
Kogonada threads Sunja's first encounter with Hansu through Solomon's first negotiation in Tokyo.
Pachinko S1E3 Review: A pregnancy, a refusal, a man already married
Sunja learns the cost of a promise that was never hers to keep.
Pachinko S1E4 Review: A suit that doesn't fit, a song that does
Kogonada's hour braids a hasty wedding, a mother's pilgrimage for white rice, and a boardroom mutiny into a single argument about who gets to refuse.
Pachinko S1E5 Review: Osaka arrives, and so does the long ache
Sunja crosses into Ikaino, an old watch becomes a debt, and Solomon learns the shape of the thing that will haunt him.
Pachinko S1E6 Review: A son is named, a self is split in two
A shoplifting in Osaka, a deathbed in Tokyo, a labor in Yeongdo — Kogonada threads three timelines into one verdict on inheritance.
Pachinko S1E7 Review: The Origin Story That Reframes the Whole Series
A bottle episode set in 1923 Yokohama gives Hansu his wound, and Pachinko finally explains the man behind the white suit.
Pachinko S1E8 Review: The Grandmothers Speak and the Season Ends in Their Voices
Kogonada and the writers hand the microphone to real Korean grandmothers who lived the history the show has been dramatizing all season.