‘Pachinko’ Creator Soo Hugh Talks ‘Exponentially Increased’ Stakes of Season 2
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the first episode of Pachinko Season 2. Pachinko creator Soo Hugh faced plenty of challenges in bringing an adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s novel to life in the first season from the trilingual story-telling to the periods of Sunja’s life featured in the show.
Season 2 of the Apple TV+ drama series will expand on Sunja’s story as she raises her two sons in Osaka, Japan after moving there with her husband Isak (Steve Sang-Hyun Noh).
Last season ended with Sunja stepping up to be the breadwinner for her boys when Isak got arrested for a political crime. “I think we established the heart of the show, the emotional heartbeat of the show, and it was really important that, going into season two, we made sure that heartbeat was still strong and beating,” Hugh told Deadline of last season. “We are so lucky that we have a character like Sunja, who was established so beautifully in the book.
Sunja is very much the foundation of our show. When you have that beacon in a character, it makes it so much easier for everything else to fall into place with other characters, other storylines, whether it’s past or present, she just keeps our show driving forward.” In the below interview, Hugh also discussed the show’s new title sequence, the opening of episode 1 and what is in store for key characters in Pachinko Season 2. DEADLINE: The intro and opening credits have a different song and different sequence from Season 1.
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