Pachinko
Pachinko Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.5 | 9.1 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 8.7 | |
| S2 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.9 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.9 |
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About
"A century of family history, quietly devastating"
Spanning nearly a century, this drama follows a Korean family across generations, beginning with a young woman named Sunja in Japanese-occupied Korea and threading forward to her descendants in Japan decades later. It moves fluidly between timelines rather than telling the story in order, building an emotional portrait of displacement, sacrifice, and identity. The pace is patient and novelistic, closer to literary fiction than plot-driven TV. What carries it is the acting, the lush period detail, and a quiet emotional weight that accumulates rather than explodes. It rewards attentive, unhurried viewing.
the interwoven timelines that turn one family's history into a sweeping, intimate epic.
you want fast plotting rather than a slow-building, multigenerational character study.
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