If I, as a subscriber to ever since the service launched back in late 2019, was given the task of ranking the best of everything it’s released up to this point, it would certainly be quite a challenge — although, there’s no question as to which title would have a hard lock on the #1 spot. No disrespect to any of the fine TV shows and movies we’ve gotten thus far from Apple’s , but is not only far and away the best thing that Apple has done to-date. This dreamy, multigenerational adaptation of award-winning 2017 novel is also one of the best things I’ve ever seen on TV, period.
You are not the same after you watch a show like this, not unlike the way travel outside of one’s home country for the first time can be a transformative, revelatory experience. I’m probably laying it on a bit thick here, but I don’t care. features a level of storytelling excellence you almost never encounter on the small screen.
And you don’t have to take my word for it, either; highly anticipated Season 2 already has a perfect 100% critics’ score ahead of its release later this week ( ). new episodes pick up with the story of the show’s matriarch, Sunja, in Osaka in 1954. She’s forced to make dangerous decisions about her family’s survival during World War II, while her grandson Solomon explores a new beginning in 1989 Tokyo.
In my opinion, though, you don’t really have to understand anything about the show’s backstory to appreciate it. This is basically a story about i.