https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_children%27s_television_series_by_country See it for yourself!! Scroll down to the US section and go to the letter B! Even more proof we need a BFDI Wikipedia page!!! Someone just put it on Wikipedia please. Also people are probably going to get angry when they see it listed as "children's television"
Squid Game is now *the #1 show in 90 different countries *. After the racist atrocity that was 'Kate', this feels like vindication lol. After the recent wild success of this series, I was thinking it would be interesting to talk about Money Heist in view of the latest victory of this Korean wave.
La Casa de Papel, a Spanish heist crime drama, was an earlier Netflix phenomenon that by 2018, the series was the most-watched non-English-language series and one of the most-watched series overall on Netflix. At the time it was the most-followed series on Netflix for six consecutive weeks and became one of the most popular series on IMDb.
The story traces two long-prepared heists led by the Professor, one on the Royal Mint of Spain, and one on the Bank of Spain, told from the perspective of one of the robbers, Tokyo.
In 2020 Netflix planned to create a South Korean adaptation of the show. The characters and cast were compared drawing the similarities and differences among the original and adaptation. This show depicts a hostage crisis situation set in the Korean Peninsula. Netflix is planning a December release this year.
Yoo Ji-tae will be playing the Professor. If you've seen Oldboy you'll remember him as the villain of that movie.
Park Hae-soo, who you saw in Squid Game (Sang-woo), will be playing Berlin.
Do you think the recent hype around Squid Game might in any way affect the future or reception for this new Korean series in a way that was not possible in the past? Do you think this series could be another big hit for Korean tv, even if not on the same level as Squid Game, or do you think it could be even more popular somehow?
What are your thoughts or predictions for this show?
The mega-hit Spanish heist crime drama series traces two long-prepared heists led by the Professor, one on the Royal Mint of Spain, and one on the Bank of Spain, told from the perspective of one of the robbers, Tokyo.
This is how the cast for the Korean version looks. These characters and cast were compared drawing the similarities and differences among the original and adaptation. Netflix is planning a December 2021 release.
The original Spanish show features plenty of violence, sex, flavor and attitude all around. It's a pretty sensuous series, with cool cinematography. Do you expect the Korean version to be spicy, sexy, and thrilling (with cultural and language changes of course) in its own right?
What do you think? Will only Koreans and Asians in general care about this series? Would it get more hate than love since it's a remake? Or could it find a big worldwide audience and affect Asian representation in any way?
