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Lately I’ve been watching A Korean Odyssey on Netflix. I was under the impression it was going to be a horror show based on the description, but I quickly discovered it was in fact a romcom – my least favourite genre of film. Yet here I am, on episode 19 out of 20, still watching it. I guess it’s doing something right, despite how campy, ludicrous, and frequently random its story is.
Before that I watched Kingdom, which was indeed a horror show. I never had much interest in zombie apocalypse stories, but it was the feudal Korea setting that drew me in. Now I am eagerly awaiting season 2, along with more seasons of Disenchanted, Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy, and Love, Death, + Robots (I have no idea if this one will have more seasons or if it was a one-time thing, but I’m very much hoping there will be more). As much as I love that Netflix allows you to binge an entire season of a show at once – making it easy to keep track of all those story threads and subplots when there aren’t days or weeks between episodes – it’s also agonising to finish a show in a few days and then have to wait a year or more to get your next fix.
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