If you’d told us earlier today that we'd be getting all emotional over a Coldplay cover we wouldn't have believed you. But that was before we saw the trailer for season two of Pachinko , Apple TV's award-winning historical drama. The trailer for the returning second season features a gorgeous version of Viva La Vida performed by BLACKPINK's Rosé, and it does a great job of setting the tone: with stories set in 1945 and 1989, the new season promises to be even more epic than the first.
Pachinko's first season was "so good it makes the competition look unworthy," the LA Times said. At its best, which is most of the time, it "is a lesson in how to do melodrama right." It's a very expensive show featuring beautiful people in beautiful but dramatic situations that tells the story of four generations of the same family in Korea and in Japan.
This new season of the best Apple TV Plus show continues the time traveling stories, this time moving between the final days of World War II and the greed-is-good late 1980s. Why Pachinko is worth playing The show, which is one of three highly-rated Apple TV Plus series that we can't get enough of, is based on the best selling book by Min Jin Lee and is unusual in that it's trilingual: the characters speak in Korean and in Japanese with English as the third language. As the LAT explains, it's "a story of racism, sexism, classism, submission, resistance, assimilation and the quest for self-knowledge in a society that tells you who you are, w.