The denouement of the latest season is both satisfying and leaves the audience wanting more.
There is still, it feels, some story to be told.
Going deeper into thePachinkostory is already top of mind.
‘Pachinko’ series creator Soo HughGetty, Amy Sussman
Apple has been really generous and supportive and theyve encouraged us to start thinking about it, says Hugh.
The dream is three or four seasons.
That was always the big plan for the show.
Soo Hugh, Jin Ha and Minha Kim from ‘Pachinko’Josh Telles/Deadline
The Terroris about patriarchy, brotherhood and the ways men bond and lift one another up.
AlthoughPachinkois a work of fiction, Hugh and the team were advised by historians.
The two actors only ever met during filming while making the title sequence more on that later.
This was Minhas first thing, says Hugh.
She had done a short film and web stuff beforePachinko, but really, she was a novice.
You have the yin and yang, but thats Sunja.
It fits the character.
Hugh recalls seeing Kims audition tape.
We were all mesmerized, but then the question was, Can she redo it?
She came back several times and each time it was different.
What happened to that performance?
And then you realize: Shes feeling it completely differently here.
Minha is one of the most intuitive actors Ive ever met.
When she feels, she just feels.
She had made a movie and another TV show in-between the seasons, so I was worried.
Is she going to come back to Season 2 and lose some of that innocence?
But she really didnt.
The pressure was on the whole team for the second run after the warm reception for the first outing.
Certainly, Hugh, as creator-writer-showrunner and exec producer felt the stakes being raised.
Its interesting to watch how different people deal with that.
There will be an about-turn on thePachinkocreative approach where the writing spills over from the source material.
Hugh reveals she will be paring back, not supplementing the story this time.
Im not going to adapt the entire book, she says.
Its too unwieldy as a film.
The novel is set on the Cote dAzur in the jazz era.
For Hugh, its messages speak to the core of all of her work.
The big theme of that book goes to the question thats in everything I make: Is this it?
Accordingly, the ambition for Moonslinger is to be both writer-friendly and market-savvy.
Longevity and awareness are interesting topics to raise with Hugh.
The reality, however, isPachinkos storylines are precision-tooled for a wide audience.
I love melodrama, and I dont feel ashamed saying I write melodrama, says Hugh.
Certainly, the themes inPachinkoare as enduring as they are universal.
Some people define that by what country or physical house they live in.
Someone like Sunja defines home as who shes with family is her home.
Thats always felt like the bullseye for us: What is home?
